Mikhail Daniel - Biography#

Educated at the Russian State University for Humanities in Moscow, where he gained a PhD in 2001, Michael Daniel has, from 2007 to 2022, taught a wide range of courses in sociolinguistics and linguistics at Lomonosov Moscow State University (MGU, part time) and at the Higher School of Economics at Moscow, where he was a founder of the School of Linguistics and a professor from from 2011 to 2022. From September 2022, he has been a fellow at Collegium de Lyon, Université de Lyon, associated with Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage, Université de Lyon / CNRS.

Daniel's areas of interest, in which he has published widely, include languages of the Caucasus; linguistic typology, particularly morphology and morphosyntax; sociolinguistics, particularly variationist studies and contact linguistics, and acoustic phonetics. Reflecting his areal focus, he does descriptive linguistics, language documentation, and linguistic and sociolinguistic fieldwork on various languages of Daghestan, including Archi, Mehweb, Rutul, Tukita. His typological studies on grammatical categories most notably include those of number, person, and case. Major national and international projects he participated in include World Atlas of Language Structures, Ustja River Basin Corpus, Atlas of Multilingualism in Daghestan and Number in the World’s Languages. He was also involved in creating Eastern Armenian National Corpus (www.eanc.net) and worked on the Russian National Corpus (www.ruscorpora.ru).