Michael Daniel (linguist)

Michael Daniel is a linguist from Russia specializing in linguistic typology and the study of languages of Dagestan.

Education and career

Daniel received his Candidate degree from the Russian State University for the Humanities in Moscow in 2001. He worked as an associate professor at Moscow State University and as a professor at HSE University. Since 2022, he has been a research fellow at the.

Daniel's contributions are primarily in the areas of linguistic typology and the study of the languages of Dagestan.
In the area of grammar, his contributions concern primarily the worldwide typology of grammatical number, the typology of personal pronouns, and the typology of case.
For his dissertation on associative plurality, he won the Greenberg Award of the Association for Linguistic Typology.

Michael Daniel is the grandson of the well-known Soviet author Yuli Daniel.

Daniel, Michael & Dobrushina, Nina & Ganenkov, Dmitry. 2019. . Berlin: Language Science Press.
Acquaviva, Paolo & Daniel, Michael. 2022. . Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.

Daniel, Michael. 2005. . In Haspelmath, Martin & Dryer, Matthew S. & Gil, David & Comrie, Bernard, The World Atlas of Language Structures. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Daniel, Michael & Moravcsik, Edith A. 2005. . In Haspelmath, Martin & Dryer, Matthew S. & Gil, David & Comrie, Bernard, The World Atlas of Language Structures. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Daniel, Michael & Ganenkov, Dmitrij. 2009. Case marking in Daghestanian. In Malchukov, Andrej & Spencer, Andrew, The Oxford Handbook on case, 668–685. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Daniel, Michael & Khalilova, Zaira & Molochieva, Zarina. 2010. Ditransitive constructions in East Caucasian: A family overview. In Malchukov, Andrej & Haspelmath, Martin & Comrie, Bernard, Studies in ditransitive constructions, 277–315. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.
Daniel, Michael & Lander, Yury. 2011. The Caucasian languages. In Kortmann, Bernd & van der Auwera, Johan, The languages and linguistics of Europe: A comprehensive guide, 125–158. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.
Daniel, Michael & Chechuro, Ilia & Verhees, Samira & Dobrushina, Nina. 2021. Lingua francas as lexical donors: Evidence from Daghestan. Language 97. 520–560.
Acquaviva, Paolo & Daniel, Michael. 2022. Number in grammar: Results and perspectives. In Acquaviva, Paolo & Daniel, Michael, Number in the world's languages: A comparative handbook, 833–910. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.