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Alexander Savelyev

А. В. Савельев

Researcher, Department of Ural-Altaic Languages

Ph.D

He has been working at the Institute since 2015.

He was born in 1989 in Vorkuta. In 2011, graduated from the he Faculty of Philology of Moscow State University (Department of Germanic and Celtic Philology). In 2014, he completed postgraduate studies of the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 2016-2019, he worked at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History (Jena, Germany). Since 2020, he has been working as a Researcher at the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Research interests: comparative-historical linguistics, areal linguistics, field linguistics, interdisciplinary studies of ethno-linguistic history, Chuvash, Turkic, Altai languages, Mari languages, Permic languages, Uralic languages, Volga-Kama languages.

Fieldwork: Chuvash (2011-2015, five expeditions in Chuvashia and Tatarstan), Beserman dialect of Udmurt (2011, Udmurtia), Mishar dialect of Tatar (2015, Nizhny Novgorod Region), Middle Chulym (2015, Tomsk Region and Krasnoyarsk Territory), Hill Mari (2016, Mari El).

Member of the editorial board of the journal "Russian Turkology".

Theses

PhD thesis 

"Otraženie dialektnyx osobennostej v staropis'mennyx pamjatnikax čuvašskogo jazika (na materiale Slovarja Pallasa)" [Dialect features in the old written monuments of Chuvash of the XVIII century (based on the Pallas Dictionary)] (2015). Principal investigator – PhD. Oleg Mudrak

Science Index

Selected publications

2020

  • (with M. Robbeets) Bayesian phylolinguistics infers the internal structure and the time-depth of the Turkic language family // Journal of Language Evolution 5.1: 39—53. https://doi.org/10.1093/jole/lzz010
  • Chuvash and the Bulgharic languages // Robbeets, M. & Savelyev, A. (eds). The Oxford guide to the Transeurasian languages. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press: 446–464.
  • (with C. Jeong) Early nomads of the Eastern Steppe and their tentative connections in the West  // Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2, E20. doi:10.1017/ehs.2020.18
  • (with J. Uchiyama, C. J. Gillam, C. Ning) Populations dynamics in Northern Eurasian forests: a long-term perspective from Northeast Asia // Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2, E16. doi:10.1017/ehs.2020.11
  • (with M. Robbeets, J. Janhunen, E. Korovina) The homelands of the individual Transeurasian proto-languages  // Robbeets, M. & Savelyev, A. (eds). The Oxford guide to the Transeurasian languages. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 753–771.
  • The Oxford guide to the Transeurasian languages (Ed. with  M. Robbeets). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

2017

  • Farming-related terms in Proto-Turkic and Proto-Altaic // Robbeets, M. & Savelyev, A. (eds). Language Dispersal Beyond Farming. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 124–154. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/z.215.06sav
  • Language Dispersal Beyond Farming (Ed. with M. Robbeets). Amsterdam: Benjamins.

 

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