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Dr. habil. Peter Arkadiev, M.A.E.

Researcher

Peter Arkadiev is a principal investigator in the project “Typology and diachrony of ambifixation” funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (December 2024 – November 2027).

Personal website: https://peterarkadiev.github.io/

Education and Academic Qualifications

  • 2019 – Habilitation in typological and historical-comparative linguistics (“doktor filologičeskix nauk”), Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow (habilitation thesis “Areal typology of prefixal perfectivisation (on the material of the languages of Europe and the Caucasus)”)
  • 2006 – PhD in typological and historical-comparative linguistics (“kandidat filologičeskix nauk”), Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow (PhD Thesis “Typology of two-term case systems”, supervisors Tatiana Nikolaeva, Vladimir Plungian)
  • 2004 — Specialist (M.A.) in theoretical and applied linguistics, Institute of Linguistics, Russian State University for the Humanities (cum laude)

Professional Assignments

  • Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, Marie Curie senior fellow (2023–2024)
  • Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, researcher (2016–2017, 2023)
  • University of Zürich, researcher (2022)
  • Vilnius University, researcher (2012–2016, 2018–2021)
  • Russian State University for the Humanities, Institute of Linguistics, Centre for Linguistic Typology, assistant professor (2008–2020), professor (2021–2022)
  • Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Department of Typology and Comparative Linguistics, PhD student, junior researcher, researcher, senior researcher (2005–2022)

Scholarships

  • University of Cologne CRC 1252 “Prominence in Language” senior research fellowship (DFG, September–November 2024)
  • LabEx EFL visiting professorship (Paris, France, May 2023)

Academic distinctions

Member of Academia Europaea, 2023

Publications

Forthcoming articles

  • (Arkadiev, Peter & Kirill Kozhanov) Object partitive of negation: An areal perspective. To appear in Björn Wiemer, Peter Arkadiev, Rogier Blockland & Petar Kehayov (eds.), Convergence and divergence in the eastern Circum-Baltic Area. A synthetic view, especially on Finnic, and case studies.
  • (Kozhanov, Kirill & Peter Arkadiev) Verbal modifiers in the Balto-Slavic contact area. To appear in Björn Wiemer, Peter Arkadiev & Kirill Kozhanov (eds.), Convergence and divergence in the eastern Circum-Baltic Area.(Triangulation with a synthetic view on Baltic and Slavic).
  • Arkadiev, Peter. The development of inflectional features. To appear in Peter Arkadiev & Franz Rainer (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Historical Morphology.

Articles in journals

  • Arkadiev, Peter. 2022. Morphology of the Caucasian languages: a typological overview. Jezikoslovni Zapiski 28-1, 7–38. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3986/JZ.28.1.01
  • Daugavet, Anna & Peter Arkadiev. 2021. The perfects in Latvian and Lithuanian: A comparative study based on questionnaire and corpus data. Baltic Linguistics 12, special issue Studies in the TAME Domain in Baltic and its Neighbours (2021), 73–165. DOI: https://doi.org/10.32798/bl.922
  • Arkadiev, Peter. 2021. Borrowing non-canonical inverse between Kabardian and Abaza. Word Structure 14-2, special issue “Morphology in Contact”, ed. by Francesco Gardani & Franz Rainer, 148–173. DOI 10.3366/word.2021.0185
  • Arkadiev, Peter. 2020. Syntax in morphological guise: Interrogative verbal morphology in Abaza. Linguistic Typology 24-2, 211–251. https://doi.org/10.1515/lingty-2020-5004
  • Arkadiev, Peter. 2020. (Non)finiteness, constructions, and participles in Lithuanian. Linguistics 58-2, 379–424. https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2020-0045
  • Arkadiev, Peter. 2020. Non-canonical inverse in Circassian languages. Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung 73-1, 81–111. https://doi.org/10.1515/stuf-2019-0028
  • Arkadiev, Peter. 2019. The Lithuanian “buvo + be-present active participle” construction revisited: A corpus-based study. Baltic Linguistics 10, special issue “Minor Grams in Baltic, Slavonic and Fennic”, 65–108. https://doi.org/10.32798/bl.361
  • Arkadiev, Peter & Yakov Testelets. 2019. Differential nominal marking in Circassian. Studies in Language 43-3, 715–751. https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.18063.ark
  • Arkadiev, Peter. 2017. Multiple ergatives: From allomorphy to differential agent marking. Studies in Language 41-3, 717–780. https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.41.3.06ark
  • Arkadiev, Peter. 2014. Towards an areal typology of prefixal perfectivization. Scando-Slavica 60-2, 384–405. https://doi.org/10.1080/00806765.2014.984473
  • Arkadiev, Peter. 2013. Marking of subjects and objects in Lithuanian non-finite clauses: A typological and diachronic perspective. Linguistic Typology 17-3, 397–437. https://doi.org/10.1515/lity-2013-0020

Chapters in edited volumes

  • Arkadiev, Peter, Yury Lander & Irina Bagirokova. 2024. Applicative constructions in the Northwest Caucasian languages. In: Fernando Zúñiga & Denis Creissels (eds.), Applicative Constructions in the World’s Languages. (Comparative Handbooks in Linguistics 7.) Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 869–912. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110730951-025
  • Zúñiga, Fernando, Peter Arkadiev & Veronika Hegedűs. 2024. Applicativizing preverbs in selected European languages. In: Fernando Zúñiga & Denis Creissels (eds.), Applicative Constructions in the World’s Languages. (Comparative Handbooks in Linguistics 7.) Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 419–471. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110730951-014
  • Arkadiev, Peter. 2023. Applicative functions of verbal prefixes. In: Marc L. Greenberg et al. (ed.), Brill’s Encyclopaedia of Slavic Languages and Linguistics Online. 2023. DOI: dx.doi.org/10.1163/2589-6229_ESLO_COM_043234
  • Arkadiev, Peter & Kirill Kozhanov. 2023. Borrowing of morphology. With a case study of Baltic and Slavic verbal prefixes. In: Peter Ackema, Sabrina Bendjaballah, Eulàlia Bonet & Antonio Fábregas (eds.), The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Morphology. Hoboken: Wiley & Sons. DOI: 10.1002/9781119693604.morphcom011
  • Arkadiev, Peter  & Sonia Durneva. 2023. Reflexive constructions in Abaza. In: Katarzyna Janic, Nicoletta Puddu & Martin Haspelmath (eds.), Reflexive Constructions in the World's Languages. Berlin: Language Science Press, 233–257. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7874946
  • Arkadiev, Peter. 2021. Is Lithuanian a polysynthetic language? In: Peter Arkadiev, Jurgis Pakerys, Inesa Šeškauskienė & Vaiva Žeimantienė (eds.), Studies in Baltic and other Languages. A Festschrift for Axel Holvoet on the occasion of his 65th birthday (Vilnius University Open Series Vol. 16). Vilnius: Vilnius University Press, 2021, 28–44. DOI: 10.15388/SBOL.2021.1
  • Arkadiev, Peter. 2021. Perfect and negation: Evidence from Lithuanian and sundry languages. In: Kristin Melum Eide & Marc Fryd (eds.). The Perfect Volume: Papers on the Perfect (Studies in Language Companion Series 217). Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 137–161. https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.217.06ark
  • Arkadiev, Peter & Alexander Letuchiy. 2021. Indirect antipassive in Circassian. In: Katarzyna Janic & Alena Witzlack-Makarevich (eds.), Antipassive: Typology, Diachrony, and Related Constructions (Typological Studies in Language 130). Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 483–514. DOI https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.130.15ark
  • Arkadiev, Peter & Yury Lander. 2021. The Northwest Caucasian languages. In: Maria Polinsky (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the Languages of the Caucasus. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 369–446. DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190690694.013.3
  • Arkadiev, Peter. 2020. Morphology in typology: Historical retrospect, state of the art, and prospects. In: Rochelle Lieber (ed.), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Morphology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1803–1825. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199384655.013.626
  • Arkadiev, Peter & Björn Wiemer. 2020. Perfects in Baltic and Slavic. In: Robert Crellin & Thomas Jügel (eds.), Perfects in Indo-European languages and Beyond (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 352) Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 123–214. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.352.05ark
  • Arkadiev, Peter & Marian Klamer. 2019. Morphological theory and typology. In: Francesca Masini & Jenny Audring (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Morphological Theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 435–454. DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199668984.013.34
  • Arkadiev, Peter & Timur Maisak. 2018. Grammaticalization in the North Caucasian languages. In: Heiko Narrog & Bernd Heine (eds.), Grammaticalization from a Typological Perspective. (Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics) Oxford: Oxford University Press, 116–145. DOI:10.1093/oso/9780198795841.003.0007
  • Arkadiev, Peter, Axel Holvoet & Björn Wiemer. 2015. Introduction. Baltic linguistics: state of the art. In: Peter Arkadiev, Axel Holvoet & Björn Wiemer (eds.), Contemporary Approaches to Baltic Linguistics (Trends in Linguistics Studies and Monographs 276). Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 1–109. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110343953-002
  • Arkadiev, Peter & Jurgis Pakerys. 2015. Lithuanian morphological causatives: A corpus-based study. In: Axel Holvoet & Nicole Nau (eds.), Voice and Argument Structure in Baltic (Valency, Argument  Realisation and Grammatical Relations in Baltic 2). Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 39–97. https://doi.org/10.1075/vargreb.2.01ark
  • Arkadiev, Peter. 2012. Participial complementation in Lithuanian. In: Volker Gast & Holger Diessel (eds.), Clause Linkage in Cross-Linguistic Perspective: Data-Driven Approaches to Cross-Clausal Syntax (Trends in Linguistics Studies and Monographs 249). Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 285–334. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110280692.285
  • Arkadiev, Peter. 2009. Poor (two-term) case systems: Limits of neutralization. In: Andrej Malchukov & Andrew Spencer (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Case. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 686–699. DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199206476.013.0048
  • Arkadiev, Peter. 2008. Thematic roles, event structure, and argument encoding in semantically aligned languages. In: Søren Wichmann & Mark Donohue (eds.), The Typology of Semantic Alignment. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 101–117. DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199238385.003.0004

Books

  • Alpatov, Vladimir, Peter Arkadiev & Vera Podlesskaya. Теоретическая грамматика японского языка [Theoretical Grammar of Japanese]. Vols. I–II. Мoscow: Natalis, 2008. Vol. I: 560 p.; Vol. II: 464 p.
  • Arkadiev, Peter. Ареальная типология префиксального перфектива (на материале языков Европы и Кавказа) [Areal Typology of Prefixal Perfectivisation (on the material of the languages of Europe and the Caucasus)]. Moscow: LRC Publishing, 2015. —  352 p.

Edited volumes

  • Arkadiev, Peter & Franz Rainer (eds.). The Oxford Handbook of Historical Morphology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, in preparation.
  • Wiemer, Björn, Peter Arkadiev et al. (eds.). Convergence and Divergence in the Eastern Circum-Baltic Area. Vols. I & II. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, in preparation.
  • Arkadiev, Peter, Jurgis Pakerys, Inesa Šeškauskienė & Vaiva Žeimantienė (eds.), Studies in Baltic and other Languages. A Festschrift for Axel Holvoet on the occasion of his 65th birthday (Vilnius University Open Series Vol. 16). Vilnius: Vilnius University Press, 2021. — 467 p.
  • Arkadiev, Peter & Francesco Gardani (eds.), Complexities in Morphology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. — xx, 396 p.
  • Arkadiev, Peter, Axel Holvoet & Björn Wiemer (eds.), Contemporary Approaches to Baltic Linguistics (Trends in Linguistics Studies and Monographs 276). Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2015. — viii, 554 p.
  • Gardani, Francesco, Peter Arkadiev & Nino Amiridze (eds.), Borrowed Morphology (Language Contact and Bilingualism 8). Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2015. — vi, 310 p.