Zaira Khalilova has been working at the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 2019.

Biography

Zaira Khalilova was born in 1983 in Makhachkala. In 2005 she graduated with honors from the Faculty of Foreign Languages of Dagestan State University.

From 2005 to 2009 she studied in full-time graduate school at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany. 

Russian linguist specializing in Caucasian languages, specialist in Dagestan linguistics (typology, comparative and historical grammar of Dagestan languages). 

Bio

Born in 1975, Moscow.
Graduated from Moscow State University (Philological faculty, Dept. of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics) in 1998.
PhD in linguistic typology in 2002, Moscow State University (“The typology of grammaticalization paths of motion and posture verbs”, advisors Alexander Kibrik, Vladimir Plungian).
Since 1995 has taken part in linguistic expeditions, mainly to Daghestan (Tsakhur, Bagwalal, Bezhta, Agul, Andi languages), also to Azerbaijan (Udi language).

Works at the Institute of Linguistics since 1981.

Yuri Koryakov has been working at the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1999.

E-mail: koryakov@iling-ran.ru
Web-site: http://lingvarium.org