Ilya Yakubovich

Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft
Philipps-Universität Marburg
Wilhelm-Röpke-Str. 6e
Marburg 35032 Germany
email: sogdiana783@gmail.com

PRINCIPAL RESEARCH AREAS

Anatolian and Iranian Philology.

Language Contact in Ancient Societies.
Socio-Historical and Indo-European Linguistics.

PRESENT POSTS

University of Marburg, Researcher (E 14)

EDUCATION

Dr. Habil. Oriental Languages. Russian Federation, February 2017

Ph.D. (with honors). Linguistics and Near Eastern Studies. University of Chicago, June 2008
M.A. Humanities. University of Chicago, June 2003
M.A. Near Eastern Studies. University of California in Berkeley, May 1999
B.A. (with excellence). Linguistics. Russian State University for the Humanities, May 1996

POSTDOCS AND FORMER POSTS

Winter 2009: University of Chicago, Visiting Lecturer

Jan. 2011 - Jan. 2013: University of Oxford, Jill Heart Early Career Fellow in Indo-Iranian Philology
March 2013 - February 2015: University of Marburg, Humboldt Fellow
May 2010 - Dec. 2014: Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Senior Researcher
October 2010 - June 2018: Russian State University for the Humanities, Leading Researcher
October 2010 - August 2020: Institute of World Culture, Moscow State University, Researcher
November 2010 - January 2022, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Silences, Researcher

PUBLICATIONS

Monographs

1. Sociolinguistics of the Luvian Language. Leiden: Brill, 2010. Circa 450 pp.

Luvian is an Indo-European language that was spoken in Asia Minor (modern Turkey) in the
second and early first millennium BC and is attested in the cuneiform and hieroglyphic
transmission. The descriptive component of my research is the corpus-based study of structural
interference, lexical borrowings, code-switching, and code alternation involving Luvian and its
geographic neighbors, such as Hittite, Akkadian, Hurrian, and Greek. I classify these data
according to the existing typologies of language contact in order to reconstruct the sociolinguistic
situation in Ancient Anatolia.
 2. Новое в согдийской этимологии. Moscow: Languages of Slavonic Culture, 2013. 240pp.

This monograph summarizes in Russian my contributions to the Sogdian Studies made up to the
year of its publication. Its first chapter introduces new lexical etymologies, its second chapter
addressed the semantic evolution of Aramaic heterogram in Sogdian, its third chapter contains the
editions of two problematic Sogdian texts found on Mount Mugh.

3. Лувийский язык в пространстве и времени. Moscow: Languages of Slavonic Culture, 2019.

460 pp.

This is the Russian creative adaptation of the monograph Sociolinguistics of the Luvian Languages.
The results of the English-language monograph are systematically revised and updated in the light
of the recent progress in the field of Luwian Studies.

Publications Edited

1. (edited with A. Mouton and I. Rutherford) Luwian Identities: Culture, Language and Religion
between Anatolia and the Aegean. Leiden: Brill, 2013. Circa 600 pp.

This volume contains the proceedings of an international conference held in Reading, UK in June
2011. The purpose of the conference was assessing the state of the Luwian Studies after the
publication of The Luwians, ed. H. Craig Melchert [Leiden, Brill: 2003] and Sociolinguistics of
the Luwian Language by Ilya Yakubovich [Leiden: Brill, 2010]. The volume is also available in
Turkish translation as Luvi uygarlığı: Anadolu ve Ege arasında kimlik, kültür, dil ve din [İstanbul:
Kalkedon Yayınları, v 1: 2018, v.2: 2020].

2. (edited with O. Hackstein, J. Miller, and E. Rieken) The Digital Philological-Etymological

Dictionary of the Minor Anatolian Corpus Languages (eDiAna) http://www.dwaks.gwi.uni-
muenchen.de/dev/project.php

The goal of the eDiAna project is to provide the first exhaustive lexical assessment of the entire
corpus of the lesser attested ancient Anatolian languages, i.e. Luwian (in cuneiform and
hieroglyphic transmission), Lycian (A and B), Carian, Lydian, Palaic, Sidetic and Pisidian. This
includes the philological documentation of synchronic word usage as well as the etymological
component, linking the lexical stock of the languages mentioned above to that of Hittite and the
other Indo-European languages. The Digital Philological-Etymological Dictionary of the Minor
Language Corpora of Ancient Anatolia is intended to serve as a fundamental reference tool for
Hittitology and for Ancient Anatolian and Ancient Near Eastern Studies as well as for Indo-
Europeanists.

Journal Articles

1. (with M. Valério) “From ‘Foreman’ to ‘Warlord’: Royal Titles in Iron Age Western Anatolia”.
Aula Orientalis 40/2 (2022): 345-353.
2. (with C. Melchert) “New Luwian verbal endings of the first person plural”. Incontri Linguistici 45
(2022): 11-30.
3. “Morphophonemic variation in Luwian clitic chains and the origin of the particle [꞊r]”. Acta
Linguistica Petropolitana 18/1 (2022): 485-502.
4. (with C. Melchert) “Binding and Smiting: One More Merism in Luvian Incantations”. Journal of
American Oriental Society 142/2 (2022): 371-385.
5. (with A. Mouton) “Where did one speak luwili? Geographic and linguistic diversity of Luwian
cuneiform texts”. Journal of Language Relationship 19/1 (2021): 25-53.
6. “Doing Things Reverently Among the Luwians”. Les Études Classiques 88 (2020): 465-489.
7. “Persian ezāfe as a contact-induced feature”. Вопросы языкознания 2020, № 5: 91-114.
8. (with B. Vine) “Вяч. Вс. Иванов – индоевропеист”. Общественные науки и современность
2019, № 4: 6-15.
9. (with A. Mouton) “Internal or external evil: a merism in Luwian incantations”. Bulletin of SOAS,
82/2 (2019): 209-231.
10. (with D. Sasseville) “Palaic Words for Domestic Animals and their Enclosures”. Historische
Sprachforschung 131 (2018): 46-58.
11. “Развитие анатолийских иероглифов в контексте хеттско-лувийского двуязычия”. Восток
(Oriens) 2018, № 6: 22-34.
12. “The Luwian word for ‘place’ and its cognates”. Kadmos 56 (2017): 1-27.
13. “An agreement Between the Sardians and the Mermnads in the Lydian Language?”
Indogermanische Forschungen 122 (2017): 165-193.
14. “На каких языках говорили в Трое: взгляд анатолиста”. Journal of Language Relationship
15/3-4 (2017): 193-215.
15. Reply to H. Craig Melchert “Initial *sp- in Hittite and šip(p)and- ‘to libate’”. Journal of Language
Relationship 14/3-4 (2016): 196-204.
16. “Славянский чертежник: этимология слав. *čьrtъ ‘черт’”. Journal of Language Relationship
14/3-4 (2016): 279-291.
17. (with A. Sideltsev) “The Origin of Lycian Indefinite Pronouns and its Phonological Implications”.
Münchener Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft 70/1 (2016): 75-124.
18. (with M. Kudrinski) “Sumerograms and Akkadograms in Hittite: Ideograms, Logograms,
Allograms, or Heterograms”. Altorientalische Forschungen 43/1-2 (2016): 53-66.
19. “Some transitive motion verbs and related lexemes in Late Luwian”. Indogermanische
Forschungen 121 (2016): 69-92.
20. (with D. Sasseville) “The Luwian inscription ŞARAGA: an improved edition”. Nouvelles
Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires 2016/1: 32-35.
21. “К локализации Лувии – древнейшего ареала обитания лувийцев”. Вестник древней
истории 2015, № 4: 137-163.
22. “Phoenician and Luwian in Early Iron Age Cilicia”. Anatolian Studies 65 (2015): 35-53.
23. “Adanawa or Ahhiyawa? Reply to the addendum by J.D. Hawkins”. Anatolian Studies 65 (2015):
56-58.
24. “The Luwian Deity Kwanza”. Armenian Journal of Near Eastern Studies (Aramazd) VIII/1-2
(2013-2014): 282-97.
25. “Reflexes of Indo-European “ē-statives” in Old Indic”. Transactions of the Philological Society
112/3 (2014): 386-408.
26. “К происхождению рефлексивных клитик в анатолийских языках”. Journal of Language
Relationship 12 (2014): 73-111.
27. (with S. Boroday) “Корпусные методы дешифровки анатолийских иероглифов”. Journal of
Language Relationship 11 (2014): 39-61.
28. “The Degree of Comparison in Luwian”. Indogermanische Forschungen 118 (2013): 155-68.
29. “The Reading of Luwian ARHA and Related Problems”. Altorientalische Forschungen 39/2
(2012): 321-39.
30. “A Middle Iranian Sound Change”. Münchener Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft 66/1 (2012): 147-
78.
31. “Sogdian Etymological Notes”. Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 64/2 (2011):
161-81.
32. “Morphological Negation in Urartian”. Armenian Journal of Near Eastern Studies (Aramazd) V/1
(2010): 141-65.
33. “The Luvian Enemy”. Kadmos 47/1-2 (2009): 1-19.
34. “Hittite-Luvian Bilingualism and the Development of Anatolian Hieroglyphs”. Acta Linguistica
Petropolitana 4/1 (2008): 9-36.
 35. “Free-standing genitive and hypostasis in Hittite”. Journal of Near Eastern Studies 65/1 (2006):
39-49.
36. “Were Hittite kings divinely anointed?” Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions 5 (2005): 107-
37.
37. “The Syntactic Evolution of Aramaic ZY in Sogdian”. Studia Iranica 34/2 (2005): 199-230.
38. “Lydian Etymological Notes”. Historische Sprachforchung 118/1-2 (2005): 75-91.
39. “Mugh 1.I. Revisited”. Studia Iranica 31/2 (2002): 231-53.
40. “Nugae Sogdicae”. Bulletin of the School of the Oriental and African Studies 65/3 (2002): 543-9.

Chapters in Honorary and Memorial Volumes

1. “Hittite Agent Form”. Проблемы общей и востоковедной лингвистики. Сочетаемость

языковых единиц и языковые модели. Памяти З.М. Шаляпиной (1946-2020), A.I. Kogan and
A.S. Panina (eds), Moscow: Institute of Oriental Studies, 2021, pp. 124-141.
2. (with E. Rieken) “Ein lydisches Schmuckstück”. Maiores Philologiae Pontes: Festschrift für
Michael Meier-Brügger zum 70. Geburtstag. M. Fritz, T. Kitazumi, and M. Veksina (eds.). Ann
Arbor: Beech Stave Press, 2020, pp. 215-223.
3. “Showing Reverence in Lydian”. QAZZU warrai: Anatolian and Indo-European Studies in Honor
of Kazuhiko Yoshida. A. A. Catt, R. I. Kim, and B. Vine (eds.). Ann Arbor: Beech Stave Press,
2019, pp. 399-409.
4. “The Mighty Weapon of Tarhunt”. Over the Mountains and Far Away: Studies in Near Eastern
history and archaeology presented to Mirjo Salvini on the occasion of his 80th birthday, P. S.
Avetisyan, R. Dan, and Y. H. Grekyan (eds.), Oxford: Archaeopress, 2019, pp. 544-559.
5. (with P. Lurje) “The Myth of Sogdian Lambdacism”. Zur lichten Heimat: Studien zu
Manichäismus, Iranistik und Zentralasienkunde im Gedenken an Werner Sundermann, Team
“Turfanforschung” (eds), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2017, pp. 319-342.
6. “The Luwian Title of the Great King”. Hittitology Today: Studies in Hittite and Neo-Hittite
Anatolia in Honor of Emmanuel Laroche’s 100th Birthday, A Mouton (ed.), Istanbul: IFEA, 2017,
pp. 39-50.
7. “A Luwian Welcome”. Audias fabulas veteres. Anatolian Studies in Honor of Jana Součková-
Siegelová, Š. Velhartická (ed.). Leiden: Brill, 2016, pp. 463-84.
8. “К этимологии персидского dästur”. Два выдающихся востоковеда. К 90-летию со дня
рождения И.Ф. Вардуля и Ю.А. Рубинчика, A.S. Panina and Z.M. Shalyapina (eds.), Moscow,
2014, pp. 175-86.
9. “From Lower Land to Cappadocia”. Extraction and Control: Studies in Honor of Matthew W.
Stolper, M. Kozuh et al. (eds), Chicago: Oriental Institute, 2014, pp. 347-52.
10. “Middle Iranian Intransitives in -ās-”. Commentationes Iranicae: сборник статей к 90-летию
В.А. Лившица, P.B. Lurje and S.R.Tokhtasjev (eds), Saint-Petersburg: Nestor-Historia, 2013, pp.
64-73.
11. (with M. Valério) “Semitic Word for Iron as Anatolian Loanword”. Исследования по
лингвистике и семиотике: сборник статей к юбилею Вяч. Вс. Иванова, T.M. Nikolaeva (ed.),
Moscow: Languages of Slavonic Culture, 2010, pp. 108-16.
12. “Hittite aniye/a- ‘to do’”. Ex Anatolia Lux: Anatolian and Indo-European studies in honor of H.
Craig Melchert on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday, R. I. Kim et al. (eds), Ann Arbor: Beech
Stave Press, 2010, pp. 375-84.
13. (with E. Rieken) “The New Values of Luwian Signs L 319 and L 172”. Ipamati kistamati pari
tumatimis: Luwian and Hittite Studies presented to J. David Hawkins on the occasion of his 70th
birthday, I. Singer (ed.), Tel-Aviv: Institute of Archaeology, 2010, pp. 199-219.
14. “West Semitic god El in Anatolian hieroglyphic Transmission”. Pax Hethitica: Studies on the
Hittites and their Neighbours in Honour of Itamar Singer, Y. Cohen et al. (eds), Wiesbaden:
Harrassowitz, 2010, рp. 385-98.
 15. “Two Armenian Etymologies”. Giorgi Melikishvili Memorial Volume I. Tatishvili et al. (eds),
Tbilisi: Logos, 2009, pp. 266-72.
16. (with A. Kassian) “Muršili II’s Prayer to Telibinu”. Tabularia Hethaeorum: hethitologische
Beiträge Silvin Košak zum 65th Geburtstag, D. Groddek and M. Zorman (eds), Wiesbaden:
Harrassowitz, 2007, pp. 423-54.
17. (with Y. Yoshida) “The Sogdian fragments of Samghāta Sūtra in the German Turfan Collection”,
Languages of Iran: Past & Present. A Volume of Iranian Studies in memoriam David Neil
MacKenzie, D. Weber (ed.), Wiesbaden: Harassowitz, 2005, pp. 239-268.
18. “Carian monument”. Hr̥ dā manasā. Сборник статей к семидесятилетию со дня рождения
Леонарда Георгиевича Герценберга, N. Kazanskij (ed.), Saint-Petersburg: Nauka. 2005, pp 240-
251.
19. (with A. Kassian) “DUTU-AŠ in Hittite Texts”. Šarnikzel. Hethitologische Studien gewidmet an
Emil Orgetorix Forrer, D. Groddek and S. Rössle (eds), Dresden: Technische Universität Dresden,
2004, pp. 395-407.
20. “Labyrinth for tyrants”. Studia Linguarum 3/1 (In memory of A. A. Korolёv). Moscow:
Languages of Slavonic Culture, 2002, pp 93-116.
21. “The Distribution of -st- and -št- in Classical Persian”. Studia Linguarum 1 (In honour of A. A.
Zalizniak). Moscow: Russian State University for the Humanities, 1997, pp. 21-36.

Articles in Handbooks and Reference Works

1. “Languages and Peoples”. Handbook of Hittite Empire: Power Structures. S. de Martino (ed.).
Berlin: de Gruyter, 2022, pp. 3-43.
2. “Hittite”. A Companion to Ancient Near Eastern Languages. R. Hasselbach‐Andee (ed.).
Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 2020, pp. 221-238.
3. “Karahöyük stele”. Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie, M. Streck
et al.(eds), Berlin: de Gruyter, Volume 15/7-8 (2018), pp. 397-399.
4. “Anatolia, local languages of”. The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity, O. Nicholson (ed.),
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018, p. 70.
5. “The Luwian Language”. Oxford Handbooks Online (21 Oct. 2015).
http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199935345.001.0001/oxfordhb-
9780199935345-e-18
6. “Нузи”. Большая российская энциклопедия, v. 23 (2013), pp. 376-77.
7. (with A. Kassian) “Aнатолийские языки”. Языки мира: реликтовые индоевропейские языки
передней и центральной Азии, J. Koryakov and A. Kibrik (eds), Moscow: Academia, 2013, pp.
15-26.
8. “Лувийский язык”. Языки мира: реликтовые индоевропейские языки передней и
центральной Азии, J. Koryakov and A. Kibrik (eds), Moscow: Academia, 2013, pp. 109-36.
9. “Luwian Language”. The Enclyclopedia of Ancient History, R.S. Bagnall et al. (eds), Oxford:
Blackwell, 2013, pp. 4174-75.
10. “Hieroglyphs, Anatolian”. The Enclyclopedia of Ancient History, R.S. Bagnall et al. (eds.),
Oxford: Blackwell, 2013, pp. 3210-11.
11. “Lukka”. The Enclyclopedia of Ancient History, R.S. Bagnall et al. (eds), online supplement,
Oxford: Blackwell, 2016, DOI: 10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah30241
12. “Luwian and the Luwians”. Oxford Handbook of Ancient Anatolia, Sh. Steadman and G.
McMahon (eds.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011, pp. 534-47.
13. “Sogdian”. Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage, S. P. Brock et al. (eds.),
Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011, pp. 382-3.
14. “V. I. Abaev”. Encyclopedia Iranica, 2021
https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-iranica-online/abaev-vasilii-
ivanovich-COM_362360
 15. “N. J. Marr”. Encyclopedia Iranica, 2005.
http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/marr-nikolai-yakovlevich-1
16. ‘Middle Iranian Marriage Contracts’. Encyclopedia Iranica, 2005.
http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/marriage-contract-in-the-pre-islamic-period

Contributions to Conference Proceedings / Collections of Papers

1. (with E. Rieken) “Zu den Reflexen der Wurzel *al- in den anatolischen Sprachen”. Zurück zur
Wurzel – Struktur, Funktion und Semantik der Wurzel im Indogermanischen: Akten der Tagung
der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft vom 13. bis 16. September 2016 in Wien, M. Malzahn et al.
(eds), Wiesbaden: Reichert, 2022, pp. 267-80.
2. “Лувийские заклинания из города Тауриса на севере Малой Азии”. Древность:
историческое знание и специфика источника. Материалы научной конференции,
посвященной памяти Эдвина Арвидовича Грантовского и Дмитрия Сергеевича Раевского.
Выпуск VIII, G.J. Kolganova and V.J. Shelestin (eds). Moscow: Institute of Oriental Studies,
2021, pp. 418-36.
3. “The Anatolian Connections of the Greek God Enyalius”. Linguistic and Cultural Interactions
between Greece and Anatolia: In Search of the Golden Fleece, M. Bianconi (ed.). Leiden: Brill,
2021, pp. 233-45.
4. (with A. Mouton) “Пролептическая конструкция в лувийском языке”. Индоевропейское
языкознание и классическая филология –XXIV, N.N. Kazanskij et al. (eds), St. Petersburg:
Institute for Linguistic Studies, 2020, pp. 206-33.
5. “The Lydian Dating Formulae”. Luwic Dialects and Anatolian: Inheritance and Diffusion, I.-X.
Adiego et al. (eds), Barcelona: Universitat de Barcelona, 2019, pp. 299-316.
6. (with S. Boroday) “Hittite local adverbs in comparative perspective”. 100 Jahre Entzifferung des
Hethitischen: Morphosyntaktische Kategorien in Sprachgeschichte und Forschung. Akten der
Arbeitstagung der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft vom 21. bis 23. September 2015 in Marburg,
E. Rieken et al. (eds), Wiesbaden: Reichert, 2018, pp. 1-22.
7. “The Slavic Draughtsman”. Etymology and the European Lexicon. Proceedings of the 14th
Fachtagung der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft, B. S. S. Hansen et al. (eds.), Wiesbaden: Reichert,
2017, pp. 529-40.
8. “Anatolian Names in -wiya and the Structure of Empire Luwian Onomastics”. Luwian Identities:
Culture, Language and Religion between Anatolia and the Aegean, A. Mouton et al. (eds), Leiden:
Brill, 2013, pp. 87-123.
9. “Information Structure and Word Order in the Aramaic of the Book of Daniel”, Narratives of
Egypt and the Ancient Near East: Literary and Linguistic Approaches, F. Hagen et al (eds),
Leuven: Peeters, 2011, pp. 373-96.
10. (with contributions by Th. van den Hout) “Anatolian Hieroglyphic Writing”. Visible Language:
Inventions of Writing in the Near East and Beyond, Ch. Woods (ed.), Chicago: Oriental Institute,
2010, pp. 203-14.
11. “Indo-European mā ‘to grow’”. Индоевропейское языкознание и классическая филология.
XIV. чтения памяти И.М. Тронского, N.N. Kazanskij et al. (eds), St. Petersburg: Nauka, 2010,
pp. 478-92.
12. “Anaptyxis in Hitt. *spand- ‘to libate’: One More Case of Luvian Influence on New Hittite”.
Индоевропейское языкознание и классическая филология. XIII. чтения памяти И.М.
Тронского, N.A. Bondarko and N.N. Kazanskij (eds), St. Petersburg: Nauka, 2009, pp. 545-57.
13. “Luwian Migrations in Light of Linguistic Contacts”. Anatolian Interfaces: Hittites, Greeks, and
their neighbors, B. J. Collins et al. (eds), Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2008, pp. 123-34.
14. “The Origin of Luvian Possessive Adjectives”. Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual UCLA IE
conference, K. Jones-Bley et al. (eds), Washington, DC: Institute for the Study of Man, 2008, pp.
193-217.
 15. “Head-noun Ellipsis in Hittite and Elsewhere: A Study in Recoverability Conditions”. CLS 40-2:
The Panels / Papers from the panels of the fortieth annual meeting of the Chicago Linguistic
Society, N. Adams et al. (eds), Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society, 2008, pp. 37-53.
16. “Prehistoric Contacts between Hittite and Luwian: The Case of Reflexive Pronouns”. Proceedings
of the Seventeenth Annual UCLA IE conference, K. Jones-Bley et al. (eds), Washington, DC:
Institute for the Study of Man, 2006, pp. 77-106.
17. “Marriage Sogdian Style”. Iranistik in Europa - gestern, heute, morgen, H. Eichner et al. (eds),
Vienna: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. 2006, pp. 307-44.
18. “Nugae Sogdicae II”. Turfan Revisited – The First Century of Research into the Arts and Cultures
of the Silk Road, D. Durkin-Meisterernst et al. (eds), Berlin: Reimer, 2004, pp.393-397.
19. (with A. Kassian). “The reflexes of IE initial clusters in Hittite”. Anatolian Languages, V.
Shevoroshkin and P. Sidwell (eds), Canberra: Association for the History of Language, 2002, pp.
10-49.
20. “Nugae Luvicae”. Anatolian Languages, V. Shevoroshkin and P. Sidwell (eds), Canberra:
Association for the History of Language, 2002, pp. 189-209.
21. (with A. Kassian) “The reflexes of Indo-European *#CR- clusters in Hittite”. Proceedings of the
Twelfth Annual UCLA IE conference, M. Huld et al. (eds), Washington, DC: Institute for the study
of Man, 2001, pp. 29-49.
22. “Laryngeals from velars in Hittite: a Triple-Headed argument”. Proceedings of the Eleventh
Annual UCLA IE conference, K. Jones-Bley et al. (eds), Washington, DC: Institute for the study
of Man, 2000, pp. 135-50.
23. ‘“Stative” suffix /-āi-a-/ in the Verbal System of Indo-Iranian”. Proceedings of the Tenth Annual
UCLA IE Conference, K. Jones-Bley et al. (eds), Washington, DC: Institute for the study of Man,
1999, pp. 65-75.
24. “Reflection of the Long Diphthong /āi/ in the Sanskrit Verb”. Proceedings of the International
Conference in South Asian Languages (Moscow, July 1-4, 1997), Moscow: Institute of Asian and
African Countries, 1998, pp 212-20.

Book Reviews

1. Phonologie Httite, by Sylvain Patri [Leiden: Brill, 2019]. JAOS 142/1 (2022): 239-242.
2. Kanišite Hittite: The Earliest Attested Record of Indo-European, by Alwin Kloekhorst [Leiden:
Brill, 2019]. Zeitschrift für Assyriologie 110/2 (2020): 278-288.
3. The Gods Rich in Praise: Early Greek and Mesopotamian Religious Poetry, by Christopher
Metcalf [Oxford: Oxford University Press]. JNES 77/1 (2018): 128-131.
4. Sogdian Epigraphy of Central Asia and Semirech’e, by Vladimir A. Livshits [London: School of
Oriental and African Studies]. Indo-Iranian Journal 60/4 (2017): 413-418.
5. From Hittite to Homer. The Anatolian Background of Ancient Homeric Epic, by Mary R.
Bachvarova [Cambridge: Cambridge University Press]. JNES 76/2 (2017): 363-366.
6. The Germanic Loanwords in Proto-Slavic, by Saskia Pronk-Tiethoff [Amsterdam: Rodopi].
Kratylos 61 (2016): 138-144.
7. Accent in Hittite: A Study in Plene Spellings, Consonant Gradation, Clitics and Metrics, by Alwin
Kloekhorst [Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz]. WZKM 106 (2016): 291-94.
8. Einführung in die urartäische Sprache, by Miroslavo Salvini and Ilse Wegner [Wiesbaden:
Harrassowitz]. Bibliotheca Orientalis 73/1-2 (2016): 155-159.
9. Bibliographisches Glossar des Hurritischen, by Thomas Richter [Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz].
JAOS 136/1 (2016): 179-183.
10. The Hittite Demonstratives: Studies in Deixis, Topic, and Focus, by Petra Goedegebuure
[Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz]. BSOAS 79/1 (2016): 164-166.
11. Personal Names in Ancient Anatolia, Robert Parker (ed.) [Oxford: Oxford University Press].
Classical Review 65/1-2 (2015): 3-5.
12. Iranische Personnennamen in der neuassyrischen Nebenüberlieferung, by Rüdiger Schmitt
[Vienna: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften]. Kratylos 59 (2014): 249-53.
13. Iranische Personnennamen in der neu- und spätbabylonischen Nebenüberlieferung, by Ran Zadok
[Vienna: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften]. Kratylos 59 (2014): 245-49.
14. Ultima Indoeuropaea, by Jaan Puhvel [Innsbruck: Institut der Sprachen und Literaturen der
Universität Innsbruck]. JIES 41/3-4 (2013): 566-70.
15. Die Aḫḫijawa-Frage (mit einer kommentierten Biblographie), by Robert Fischer [Wiesbaden:
Harrassowitz]. Kratylos 58 (2013): 185-92.
16. The Elements of Hittite, by Theo van den Hout [Cambridge: Cambridge University Press].
Classical Review 63/1-2 (2013): 1-3.
17. Die Entwicklung von Demonstrativpronomen zu Artikeln in Soghdischen, by Antje Wendtland
[Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz]. ZDMG 162/2 (2012): 495-97.
18. Völker und Sprachen Altanatoliens, by Maciej Popko [Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz]. JNES 71/2
(2012): 388-90.
19. L’alignement syntaxique dans les langues indo-européennes d’Anatolie, by Silvain Patri
[Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz]. JNES 71/2 (2012): 390-92.
20. The Carian Language, by Ignasi X. Adiego Lajara [Leiden: Brill]. JNES 71/1 (2012): 131-33.
21. Berliner Pahlavi-Dokumente: Zeugnisse spatsassanidischer Brief- und Rechtskultur aus
frühislamischer Zeit, by Dieter Weber [Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz]. JAOS 132/1(2012): 116-18.
22. Iranica in the Achaemenid Period (ca. 550-330 B.C.): Lexicon of Old Iranian Proper Names and
Loanwords, Attested in Non-Iranian Texts, by Jan Tavernier [Leuven: Peeters]. JNES 71/1 (2012):
133-35.
23. Sources for a Socio-Economic History of the Neo-Hittite States. By Federico Giusfredi.
[Heidelberg: Winter]. Orientalia 80/2 (2011): 259-65.
24. Die hethitischen Frauennamen, by Thomas Zehnder [Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz]. Kratylos 56
(2011): 182-87.
25. Investigationes Anatolicae: Gedenkschrift für Erich Neu, ed. Jörg Klinger et al. [Wiesbaden:
Harrassowitz] and Studia Anatolica in memoriam Erich Neu dicata, René Lebrun and Julien De
Vos (eds) [Leuven: Peeters]. Kratylos 56 (2011): 172-81.
26. Corpus dei testi urartei. Part 1: Le iscrizioni su pietra e roccia, vol. 1-3, by Mirjo Salvini [Rome:
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche]. Syria 88 (2011): 423-24.
27. Le Hōm Stōm et la zone des déclarations (Y7.24-Y15.4, avec les intercalations de Vr3 à 6), by
Jean Kellens [Paris : de Boccard]. JNES 70/2 (2011): 334-35.
28. Glossar des Lykischen, by Günter Neumann [Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz]. JNES 70/2 (2011): 336-
37.
29. Einführung in die hurritische Sprache. 2., überarbeitete Auflage, by Ilse Wegner [Wiesbaden:
Harrassowitz]. JNES 70/2 (2011): 337-39.
30. The Disappearance of Writing Systems: Perspectives on Literacy and Communication, John
Baines et al. (ed.) [London: Equinox]. JAOS 131/1 (2011), 135-138.
31. The Indo-European Language Family: Question about its Status, Angela Marcantonio (ed.)
[Washington: Institute for the Study of Man]. Journal of Language Relationship 6 (2011): 227-33
[in Russian].
32. Sprachen des Alten Orients, M. Streck (ed.). [Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft].
JNES 69/2 (2010): 253-54.
33. Аспекты компаративистики 4, ed. Georgij S. Starostin [Moscow: Russian State University for
the Humanities]. Journal of Language Relationship 4 (2010): 207-11 [in Russian].
34. A grammar of the Hittite Language, by Harry A. Hoffner and H. Craig Melchert [Winona Lake,
IN: Eisenbrauns]. Bibliotheca Orientalis 67/1-2 (2010): 147-54.
35. (with D. Campbell). Die hethitischen Tontafelkataloge aus Hattuša (CTH 276-282), by Paola
Dardano [Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz]. JNES 69/1 (2010): 90-93.
36. The Kingdom of the Hittites: New Edition, by Trevor Bryce [Oxford: Oxford University Press].
JNES 69/1 (2010): 104-107
 37. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World’s Ancient Languages, ed. Roger Woodard [Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press]. JNES 68/1 (2009): 41-43.
38. Phonétique et morphologie de la langue lydienne, by Raphaël Gérard [Louvain-la-Neuve :
Peeters]. JNES 68/1 (2009): 43-45.
39. Индоевропейское языкознание и типология языковых ситуаций: сборник статей к 75-
летию профессора А. Л. Герценберга (1930-1995), M. N. Bogoliubov (ed.) [Saint-Petersburg:
Nauka]. Indo-European Studies Bulletin 13/1 (2008): 51-53.
40. Margins of Writing, Origins of Cultures, S. Sanders (ed.) [Chicago: Oriental Institute]. JIES 36/1-
2 (2008): 202-11.
41. Akkadian Language in its Semitic Context, G. Deutscher and N.J.C. Kouwenberg (eds.) [Instanbul:
Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten]. Bibliotheca Orientalis 65/1-2 (2008): 149-54.
42. Lenguas en Contacto: El testimonio escrito, P. Bádenas de la Peña et al. (eds) [Madrid: Consejo
Superior de Innvestigaciones Científicas]. JAOS 127/2 (2007): 217-18.
43. The Luwians, H.C. Melchert (ed.) [Leiden: Brill]. JNES 66/2 (2007): 140-44.
44. Selected Onomastic Writings, by Rüdiger Schmitt [New York: Bibliotheca Persica]. MELA Notes
79 (2006): 39-40.
45. Studies in Zoroastrian Family Law: a Comparative Analysis, by Bodil Hjerrild [Copenhagen:
Museum Tusculanum]. JNES 65/3 (2006): 214-16.
46. Legends, Tales, and Fables in the Art of Sogdiana, by Boris Marshak [New York: Bibliotheca
Persica]. JNES 65/3 (2006): 223-25.
47. Studies in Iranian Linguistics and Philology, by Wojciech Skałmowski [Cracow: Jagellonian
University]. Iranian Studies 39/2 (2006): 190-94.
48. Histoire des marchands sogdiens, by Étienne de la Vaissière [Leiden: Brill]. JNES 65/2 (2006):
122-24.
49. Studies in the Origin, Development and Interpretation of the Kizzuwatna Rituals, by Jared Miller
[Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz]. JIES 33/3-4 (2005): 422-33.
50. The Avestan Vowels, by Michiel de Vaan [Amsterdam: Rodopi]. JIES 32/3-4, 2004: 387-95.
51. Indo-Iranian Languages and Peoples, N. Sims-Williams (ed.). [Oxford: Oxford University Press].
JIES 31/3-4 (2003): 475-82.
52. Этимологический словарь иранских языков, v. 1, by Vera S. Rastorgujeva & Dzhoj I. Edelman
[Moscow: Vostochnaja literatura]. Indo-European Studies Bulletin 10/1 (2002): 30-1.
53. Introducción al avestico, by Javier Martínez and Michiel de Vaan [Madrid: Ediciones Clásicas].
JIES 29/3-4 (2001): 485-90.
54. Этимологический словарь ваханского языка, by Ivan M. Steblin-Kamenskij [Saint-Petersburg:
Peterburgskoe vostokovedenie]. JIES 29/3-4 (2001): 481-5.
55. Bactrian Documents from Northern Afghanistan. I: Legal and Economic Documents, by Nicholas
Sims Williams [Oxford: Oxford University Press]. JIES 29/3-4 (2001): 476-81.
56. (Review article) “The Child of the Century. Discussing the Ossetic Etymological Dictionary of
V.I. Abaev and its author”. Journal of the Association of Graduates in Near Eastern Studies 8/1
(1998): 5-11.

Prefaces and introductions

1. (with Alice Mouton). “Introduction”. Altorientalische Forschungen 49/1 (2022): 125-127

[Proceedings of the Conference “Religious Discourse in the Ancient Near East” held at Sorbonne
University (Paris) on December 12–13, 2019].
2. (with Alfredo Rizza) “Preface”. Journal of Language Relationship 16/3 (2018): 169-171 [Special
issue on language contact].
3. “Preface”. Journal of Language Relationship 15/1 (2017): xi-xii [Special issue on the Luwic
Languages].
4. (with Tatiana Mikhailova) “Preface”. Journal of Language Relationship 9 (2013): xi-xii [Special
issue on the Indo-European homeland and related topics].
 5. (with Alice Mouton and Ian Rutherford). “Introduction”. Anatolian Interfaces: Culture, Language
and Religion between Anatolia and the Aegean, A. Mouton et al. (eds), Leiden: Brill, 2013, pp. 2-
21.

Obituaries

1. (with Brent Vine) “Vyacheslav Vs. Ivanov (1929-2017)”. Armenian Jounal of Near Eastern
Studies (Aramazd) 12/2 (2018): 208-219.
2. (with H. Craig Melchert) “In Memoriam Alexandr Anatoljevich Lehrman”. Journal of Indo-
European Studies 41/1-2(2013): 311-7.
3. “Т. Жданова”. Языки мира, типология, уралистика. Памяти Т. Ждановой. Moscow: Indrik,
2002. pp. 669-73.
4. (with Alexei Kassian and Vitaly Shevoroshkin) “A.A. Королёв”. Studia Linguarum 3(1) (In
memory of A. A. Korolev). Moscow: Languages of Slavonic Culture, 2002, pp. 5-10.

Popular science (non-academic) articles

1. “Siyasi Haritada Luviler”. Aktüel Arkeoloji 64 (2018): 48-63.

2. “Hitit İmparatorluğu’nda Luvice”. Aktüel Arkeoloji 36 (2014): 54-61 = “Luwian in the
Hattuscha Empire”. Actual Archaeology 36 (2014): 46-53.

Brief Communications

1. (with E. Rieken) “The Origin of Hittite Stem-forms”. Abstracts of the conference Sign, Speech
and Society in the Ancient Near East. Prague: Charles’ University, 2019. Pp. 27-30.
2. “Предыстория лидийцев в свете лексических связей лидийского языка”. Востоковедные
чтения 2019: Языки юго-западной Азии и северной Африки. Тезисы докладов
межинститутской научной конференции. Moscow, 2019. P. 29.
3. “Киликийская Аххиява в источниках раннего железного века”. Азия и Африка в
меняющемся мире. Тезисы докладов XXVI международной конференции по
источниковедению и историографии стран Азии и Африки. Saint Petersburg, 2015. Pp. 317-
18.
4. “К интерпретации антидэвовской надписи Ксеркса”. XIX Сергеевские чтения Сборников
тезисов научной конференции. Moscow: Moscow State University, 2015. Pp. 13-14.
5. “Etymology of Slavic *čьrtъ ‘demon, devil’ in the light of Indo-European semantic parallels”.
Etymology and the European Lexicon: 14th Fachtagung of the Indogermanische Gesellschaft.
Copenhagen: Roots of Europe, 2012. Pp. 127-128.
6. “When Hittite Laryngeals are Secondary”. Синхронное и диахронное в сравнительно-
историческом языкознании. Материалы VII международной научной конференции по
сравнительно-историческому языкознанию (Москва, 31 января – 2 февраля 2011 г.).
Moscow: Dobrosvet, 2011, pp. 277-79.
7. Book notice of Untersuchungen zu den baltischen Sprachen, by Daniel Petit [Leiden: Brill, 2010].
https://journals.linguisticsociety.org/booknotices/?p=1788
8. Book notice of Time, tense and aspect in Early Vedic grammar: Exploring the inflectional
semantics in the Rigveda, by Eystein Dahl [Leiden: Brill: 2010].
https://journals.linguisticsociety.org/booknotices/?p=1654
9. Book notice of Language and ritual in Sabellic Italy: The ritual complex of the third and fourth
Tabulae Iguvinae, by Michael Weiss [Leiden: Brill, 2010].
https://journals.linguisticsociety.org/booknotices/?p=1508
10. “Phonetic interpretation of Hurrian Sibilants in the Light of Indo-European evidence”. The Sound
of Indo-European: Phonetics, phonemics, and morphophonemics. Abstracts. Copenhagen: Roots
of Europe, 2009. Pp. 62-3.
11. Communication about the conference “Long Range Linguistic Comparison: Prospects on the Eve
of the Third Millennium (Moscow: May 28 – June 2, 2000)”. Indo-European Studies Bulletin
10(1), 2002, pp. 30-1.
12. “Происхождение *-je-/-ā- глаголов в праславянском”. Проблемы изучения дальнего родства
языков на рубеже третьего тысячелетия. Доклады и тезисы международной
конференции (Москва, 29 мая - 2 июня 2000 г.). Moscow: Russian State University for the
Humanities, 2000, pp. 178-9.
13. “Между ‘B’ i ‘G’. К вопросу об историко-фонетических коррелятах процесса
контаминации”. Первая всероссийская конференция по проблемам сравнительно-
исторической индоевропеистики. Тезисы докладов. Moscow: Dialog-MGU, 1997, p. 41.

ONLINE DATABASES

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CONFERENCE TALKS AND INVITED LECTURES

1. “Lydian Sources on Achaemenid Sardis”. Sociedad Española de Iranología, 10th annual meeting.
Tbilisi, October 2022.
2. “Discourse Grammar of Luwian Incantations”. 34. Deutscher Orientalistentag. Berlin, September
2022.
3. “Sun-goddess of the Earth: Inherited Deity of Scribal Construct?” 66th Rencontre Assyriologique
Internationale. Mainz, July 2022.
4. “Empire Luwian names in Anatolian hieroglyphic transmission and the
early values of Anatolian hieroglyphs”. Déplacements, migrations et contacts culturels en
Méditerranée orientale dans le miroir de l’anthroponymie, colloque international. Paris, May 2022.
5. “Luwian Verbal Reduplication and the Two Anatolian Conjugations”. 12. Jenaer Maikolloquium
„Reduplikation in indogermanischen Sprachen“. Jena, May 2022.
6. “Changing Colour as Pollution: One More Merism in Luwian Incantations”. Luwic Dialects:
Inheritance and Diffusion, 7th Workshop. Santiago de Compostela, February 2022.
7. “Luwian in Cuneiform: The Last Frontier of Indo-European Studies”. Oxford Anatolian Seminar,
invited talk. Oxford, UK, February 2022.
8. (with A. Mouton) “Conjuring the Gods in Luwian: The Luwili Project”. XI. International Congress
of Hittitology. Çorum, Turkey, December 2021.
9. (with C. Melchert) “New Luwian Verbal Endings”. 32nd Annual UCLA Indo-European
Conference, Los Angeles, November 2021.
10. “Kuwattalla Tradition and Mastigga Tradition”. 67th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale,
Turin, July 2021.
11. “Новые лувийские лексемы и их этимологии”. XVI. традиционные чтения памяти С.А.
Старостина. Moscow, June 2021.
12. “Морфонологические чередования в цепочках лувийских клитик”. Востоковедные чтения
2021 / Сочетаемость языковых единиц и языковые модели. Памяти З.М. Шаляпиной.
Moscow, April 2021.
13. “Structural Coherence of the Kuwattalla Tradition”. Contacts in Pre-Hellenistic Anatolia and
Ancient Near East - From Languages to Texts. Joint Conference of the Luwili and PALaC projects.
Verona, February 2021.
14. (with C. Melchert) “Новые глаголы силового воздействия в лувийских клинописных
текстах”. Международный лингвистического семинар «К 180-летию со дня рождения
Августа Лескина». Moscow, December 2020.
15. “Функциональные различия между двумя классами праидоевропейского глагола”. XV.
традиционные чтения памяти С.А. Старостина. Moscow, October 2020.
16. (with A. Mouton). “Пролептическая конструкция в лувийском языке”. XXIV. чтения памяти
И.М. Тронского. St. Petersburg, June 2020.
17. “Correlates of Language Shift in Population Groups vs. Epigraphic Cultures”. National Research
University “Higher School of Economics”, Language Convergence Lab, invited talk. Moscow,
January 2020.
18. (with A. Mouton) “Where did one speak luwili?” Religious Discourse in the Ancient Near East.
Workshop of the Luwili project. Paris, December 2019.
19. (with E. Rieken) “Интерференция между системами письма в древней Анатолии”. Institute
of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, invited talk. November 2019.
20. “Лувийские заклинания из города Тауриса на севере Малой Азии”. XI конференция
«Древность: историческое знание и специфика источника» памяти Э.А. Грантовского и Д.С.
Раевского. Moscow, November 2019.
21. “Vyacheslav Ivanov and Two Classes of Proto-Indo-European Verbal Roots”. The Scholarly
World of Vyacheslav Vsevolodovich Ivanov: Assessments, Reassessments, Reflections. Los
Angeles, November 2019.
22. (with E. Rieken) “The Origin of Hittite Stem-forms”. Sign, Speech, and Society in the Ancient
Near East: 100 Years of Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Prague. Prague, September 2019.
23. “Orthographic Variation and Relative Dating of Hittite-Luwian Texts”. 65th Rencontre
Assyriologique Internationale, Paris, July 2019.
24. “Предыстория лидийцев в свете лексических связей лидийского языка”. Востоковедные
чтения 2019: Языки юго-западной Азии и северной Африки. Moscow, April 2019.
25. “Languages and scripts: development and influences / Luwian”. In Search of the Neo-Hittites,
International Workshop. Ascona, Switzerland, March-April 2019.
26. (with A. Mouton) “irwalliyan parittarwaliyan: Classifying sources of evil in Luwian
incantations”. Luwic Dialects: Inheritance and Diffusion, 6th Workshop. Barcelona, March 2019.
27. “Храм Артемиды в Сардах под патронажем Ахеменидов”. XXI Cергеевские чтения.
Moscow, January 2019.
28. “Alternative Facts in Achaemenid Royal Propaganda”. Center for Near and Middle Eastern
Studies, Philipps-Universität Marburg, invited talk. December 2018.
29. “The Archaisms of Old Iranian Verbal System”. 8th International Conference on Iranian
Linguistics (ICIL-8), featured presentation. Erevan, October 2018.
30. “Lexical Contacts between Anatolian and Hebrew: Historical and Sociolinguistic Interpretation”.
Society of Biblical Literature and European Association of Biblical Studies, Joint International
Meeting. Helsinki, July-August 2018.
31. “The Lydian Dating Formulae”. Beyond all Boundaries: Anatolia in the 1st Millennium BC,
International Conference. Ascona, June 2018.
32. (with A. Sadykova) “The Lydian Particle fak in Curse Formulae and Beyond”. Beyond all
Boundaries: Anatolia in the 1st Millennium BC, International Conference. Ascona, June 2018.
33. “Luwian Superstrate in Lydian”. Loanwords and Substrata, International Colloquium. Limoges,
June 2018.
34. “Die griechische Gottheit Enyalios und seine anatolischen Beziehungen”. Julius-Maximilians-
Universität Würzburg, Academic job talk. May 2018.
35. “The Precinct of Artemis in Sardis under the Achaemenid management”. Economy of Religions
in Anatolia and Northern Syria: From the early second to the middle of the first millennium BCE,
Bonn, May 2018.
36. “К реконструкции пралувического вокализма”. XIII. традиционные чтения памяти С.А.
Старостина. Moscow, March 2018.
37. “The Luwic Origin of the Greek God Enyalius?” Luwic Dialects: Inheritance and Diffusion, 5th
Workshop. Santiago de Compostela, January 2018.
38. “Статус Мермнадов в Ахеменидский период: к дешифровке первого лидийского
текста политического содержания”. Moscow State University, Faculty of History, invited talk.
December 2017.
39. “From Proto-Luwic to Lycian: The Case of Short Vowels”. 33. Deutscher Orientalistentag. Jena,
September 2017.
40. “Письменные языки и типология языковых контактов”. Cеминар сектора анатолийских и
кельтских языков ИЯз РАН под руководством А.В. Сидельцева, invited talk. Moscow,
September 2017.
41. “West Iranian ezafe as a contact-induced feature”. 7th International Conference on Iranian
Linguistics (ICIL-7). Moscow, August 2017.
42. “Mesopotamian Influence on Anatolian Idiomatic Expressions: The Case of EN SISKUR ‘ritual
patron’”. 63rd Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale. Marburg, July 2017.
43. “The country called “country” in Classical Lycia”. Workshop “Toponymie et géographie
historique de l’Anatolie”. Louvain La Neuve, June 2017.
44. “Universals of Language Contact and the Written Language”. Beyond Lexicon: Diachronic
language contact on the structural and systemic level. Colloquium organized by Federico
Giusfredi. Verona, April 2017.
45. “The eDiAna Project and the Ongoing Decipherment of Minor Anatolian Languages”. Bilkent
University, Ankara. Academic job talk. April 2017.
46. “The Origin of s-stems in Lycian A”. Luwic Dialects: Inheritance and Diffusion: 4th Workshop.
Barcelona, March 2017.
47. (with E. Rieken) “Contacts Between Scripts in Bronze Age Asia Minor”. Seen Not Heard:
Composition, Iconicity, and the Classifier Systems of Logosyllabic Scripts. Symposium organized
by Ilona Zsolnay. Oriental Institute, Chicago, March 2017.
48. “More polities, fewer nymphs, and the neglected Lycian sound change”. International Workshop
of the Digital Philological-Etymological Dictionary of the Minor Ancient Anatolian Corpus
Languages. Munich, February 2017.
49. “Das luwische in Kontext der indogermanischen Sprachen”. Was wissen wir über die Luwier und
woher wissen wir das. Colloquium of the Luwian Studies Foundation. Zurich, November 2016.
50. “К происхождению слова «черт»”. Круглый стол памяти В.М. Иллича-Свитыча, Институт
славяноведения РАН. Moscow, October 2016.
51. (with E. Rieken) “Zur Derivationsgeschichte der Wurzel al-”. 15th Fachtagung of the
Indogermanische Gesellschaft. Vienna, September 2016.
52. “A Lydian Treaty Between the Mermnads and the Population of Sardis”. Hot Topics in Anatolian
Linguistics (Phonology, Morphology, Syntax). Colloquium in Honor of H. Craig Melchert.
Innsbruck, June 2016.
53. “Pеконструкция лингвистических ситуаций в древних обществах”. Cеминар по типологии
языков, компаративистике и лингвистическим традициям. Moscow State University, Institute
of Asian and African Studies. May 2016.
54. “How Written Languages Are Different”. Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. Academic job
talk. April 2016.
55. (with A. Sideltsev). “Anatolian Quantifiers in Historical Perspective”. XI. Традиционные чтения
памяти С.А. Старостина. Moscow, March 2016.
56. “The Mighty Weapon of Tarhunt”. Luwic dialects: Inheritance and Diffusion, 3rd workshop.
Barcelona, March 2016.
57. “Luwian arla- ‘place, post’ and its derivatives”. Hrozný and Hittite: The First Hundred Years.
Prague, November 2015.
58. (with S. Boroday) “The Morphological Structure of Anatolian Local Adverbs”. 100 Jahre
Entzifferung des Hethitischen – Morphosyntaktische Kategorien in Sprachgeschichte und
Forschung (Arbeitstagung of the Indogermanische Gesellschaft), featured presentation. Marburg,
September 2015.
59. “The “Daiva Inscription” of Xerxes as a Specimen of Royal Propaganda”. 8th European
Conference of Iranian Studies. St. Petersburg, September 2015.
60. (with M. Kudrinski). “Sumerian and Akkadian Elements in Hittite: Ideograms, Logograms, or
Heterograms?” 61st Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale. Geneva-Bern, June 2015.
61. “Этнические сообщества древней Анатолии”. Круглый стол «Проблемы археологии и
истории Ближнего Востока» гуманитарного факультета Воронежского государственного
педагогического университета. Voronezh, May 2015.
62. “Интерпретация контактной интерференции в языке и речи (на примере лингвистической
ситуации в Анатолии бронзового века)”. Открытый научный семинар Института
лингвистики РГГУ. Moscow, May 2015.
63. “Киликийская Аххиява в источниках раннего железного века”. The XXVII International
Conference on Historiography and Source Studies of Asia and Africa. Saint-Petersburg, April
2015.
64. “К происхождению латинского герундива”. X. Традиционные чтения памяти С.А.
Старостина. Moscow, March 2015.
65. “К интерпретации антидэвовской надписи Ксеркса”. XIX Cергеевские чтения. Moscow,
February 2015.
66. “Deciphering the Anatolian Hieroglyphic Inscriptions: Discoveries of the Year 2014”. University
of Zürich, Department of Comparative Linguistics, invited talk. December 2014.
67. “Xerxes’ Bericht über die Verbrennung der athener Akropolis – eine neue Interpretation”.
Universität Hamburg, Asien-Afrika Institut, invited talk. December 2014.
68. “The Luwian Title for the Great King”. Conference “L’hittitologie aujourd’hui : Études sur
l’Anatolie hittite et néo-hittite à l’occasion du centenaire de la naissance d’Emmanuel Laroche”.
Istanbul, November 2014.
69. “Luwian verbal stem formation and the origin of Luw. izziya- ‘to make’”. Luwic Dialects:
Inheritance and Diffusion, 2nd workshop. Barcelona, October 2014.
70. “La divinité louvite Kwanza”. Colloque « État de la recherche sur l’Anatolie antique ». Université
catholique de Louvain, October 2014.
71. “The “gerundives” in Anatolian and Italic”. Arbeitstagung of the Indogermanische Gesellschaft.
Paris, September 2014.
72. “Annotated Online Corpus of Luwian Texts in Hieroglyphic Transmission”. IX International
Congress of Hittitology. Çorum, Turkey, September 2014.
73. (with P. Lurje) “Согдийский ламбдаизм: конец мифа”. Семинар “Фреймановские чтения”.
Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg, May 2014.
74. “The Achaemenids and the Zoroastrian Tradition”. 8 Jenaer Maikolloquium (LST
Indogermanistik), Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, May 2014.
75. “The Function of Phoenician in Bilingual Inscriptions from Early Iron Age Cilicia”.
Multilingualism Across Disciplines 2014. American University of Beirut, April 2014.
76. “The genesis of the Indo-European verbal suffix -neu̯- / -nu-”. IX. Традиционные чтения памяти
С.А. Старостина. Moscow, March 2014.
77. “Многоязычие в киликийском княжестве Хиява и происхождение греческого алфавита”.
Celto-Anatolian Seminar, Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Linguistics, invited talk.
March 2014.
78. “Two cases of language coexistence in Ancient Anatolian: Sociolinguistic interpretation”. The
Aegean and the Levant at the turn of Bronze and Iron Ages, Workshop I. Warsaw University,
Institute of History, January 2014.
79. “Having the strength of Aleppo: Interpretation of Ancient Anatolian topophoric personal names”.
Universität Leipzig, Altorientalisches Kolloquium, November 2013.
80. “К этимологии персидского dastūr”. Два выдающихся востоковеда. Конференция к 90-
летию со дня рождения И.Ф. Вардуля и Ю.А. Рубинчика. Russian Academy of Sciences,
Institute of Oriental Studies, November 2013.
81. “Inverse sociolinguistic interpretation: Moving from language contact to its social triggers”.
Philipps Universität Marburg, Sprachwissenschaftliches Seminar, invited talk. November 2013.
82. “L’emploi du phénicien et du louvite dans le royaume “néo-hittite” de Que/Hiyawa”. Journée
Langues rares, Institut catholique de Paris, November 2013.
83. “The Expression of State in Indo-European Verb”. École normale supérieure, Paris, invited talk.
November 2013.
84. “Reflexes of the Anatolian -ḫi conjugation in Lycian”. Luwic Dialects: Inheritace and Diffusion,
1st workshop. Barcelona, October 2013.
85. “Phoenician and Luwian in the Kingdom of Que/Hiyawa”. 32. Deutscher Orientalistentag.
Münster, September 2013.
86. “A Linguist’s Contribution to the History of Cappadocia and Cilicia in Late Bronze and Early Iron
Ages”. Universität Würzburg, Institut für Altertumswissenschaften, invited talk. June 2013.
87. “Topics in Lycian Verbal Morphology”. Craven Seminar in Comparative Philology: 200 Years of
Indo-European Studies. Cambridge University, May 2013.
88. “Early Slavs through post-Roman eyes: When linguistics can help the historian”. After Rome
Seminar: Aspects of History and Archaeology of the Fifth to Seventh Century. University of
Oxford, May 2013.
89. “New Steps in the Decipherment of the Luwian Language”. Kolloquium zum Alten Orient,
Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität München, invited talk. April 2013.
90. (with S. Boroday) “Роль корпусной лингвистики в дешифровке древних письменностей”.
Comparative Historical Linguistics in the 21st Century: Issues and Perspectives. Conference on
the occasion of the 60th Anniversary of S. A. Starostin. Moscow, March 2013.
91. “The Bilingual of ÇİNEKÖY (Luwian and Phoenician)”. Workshop on Translation and
Bilingualism in Ancient Near Eastern Texts. Wolfson College, Oxford, March 2013.
92. “Хаттусили I, восстановление Хаттусы и религиозная реформа”. XVIII Cергеевские чтения,
featured presentation. Moscow, February 2013.
93. “Continuity and Discontinuity in the Development of Slavic Languages”. Slavic Origins: A
Linguistic-Historical Workshop. Wolfson College, Oxford December 2012.
94. “The Hittites and the Others: Ancient Anatolia as a Multicultural Society”. Ancient Egypt and
Middle Eastern Society, Lincoln, UK, invited talk. October 2012.
95. “History of Anatolian Religion through the Prism of Luwian Onomastics”. Universitat de
Barcelona, Institut d'Estudis del Proxim Orient Antic, invited talk. October 2012.
96. “Etymology of Slavic čьrtъ ‘demon, devil’ in the light of Indo-European semantic parallels”. 14th
Fachtagung of the Indogermanische Gesellschaft. Copenhagen, September 2012.
97. “Luwians and Pre-Hellenic Substrate: Assessing the Evidence”. Международная научная
конференция памяти Н.Я Мерперта. Moscow, September 2012.
98. “Ancient Near Eastern Marriage Agreement across Space and Time”. Bayerisches
Orientkolloquium, Bamberg, June 2012.
99. “Were the Achaemenids Zoroastrian?”. World Zoroastrian Organization’s 2012 Seminar on
Zoroastrian Religion, History, and Culture. London, June 2012.
100. “Хеттская эргативность в синхронном и историческом аспектах”. VII. Традиционные
чтения памяти С.А. Старостина. Moscow, March 2012.
101. “Reconstructing Multilingualism in the Ancient Near East”. Philological Society of Great
Britain, invited talk. February 2012.
102. “Language Coexistence in Pre-Hellenistic Western Anatolia”. University of Oxford, Ioannou
Centre for Classical Antiquity, invited talk. January 2012.
103. “Thousand gods and thousand names in the Hittite Empire”. University of London, School
of Oriental and African Studies, invited talk. January 2012.
104. “Hellenistic Legacy in Early Medieval Central Asia”. University of Exeter, Department of
Classics and Ancient History, invited talk. November 2011.
105. “The Invention of Old Persian”. Ancient India and Iran Trust, Cambridge, UK, invited talk.
October 2011.
106. “Reconstructing Multilingualism in Ancient Societies”. University of Cambridge, McDonald
Institute for Archaeological Research, invited talk. October 2011.
107. “Ergativity in Hittite”. Historical-Comparative Linguistics in the 21st century. Humboldt
Kolleg. Pavia, September 2011.
108. “Iranian Reflexes of Indo-European Statives”. 7th European Conference of Iranian Studies.
Cracow, September 2011.
109. “The reading of the Anatolian Hieroglyph *216 (ARHA)”. VIII International Congress of
Hittitology. Warsaw, September 2011.
110. “Cоциолингвистическая ситуация в Малой Азии в позднем бронзовом и раннем
железном веках”. Armenian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Ethnography, invited talk. August
2011.
111. “The formation of Old Persian and its role within the Achaemenid Empire”. The Arshama
Archive: Conclusions and Prospects. Final Conference of the Arshama Project. Oxford, July 2011.
112. “The Luwian names in -wiya”. Luwian Identities: Culture, Language, and Religion between
Anatolia and the Aegean. Conference organized by Dr. Alice Mouton and Professor Ian
Rutherford. Reading, June 2011.
113. “The reflexes of Indo-European ē-statives” in Indo-Iranian”. University of Oxford, Faculty
of Linguistics, Philology, and Phonetics, invited talk. May 2011.
114. “Stem-formation of the Lycian Verb in Historical Perspective”. VI. Традиционные чтения
памяти С.А. Старостина. Moscow, March 2011.
115. “When Hittite Laryngeals are Secondary”. Синхронное и диахронное в сравнительно-
историческом языкознании. VII. Международная научная конференция по сравнительно-
историческому языкознанию. Moscow, January 2011.
116. “The Names and Peoples of Pre-Hellenistic Cappadocia”. University of Liverpool, School of
Archaeology, Classics, and Egyptology, invited talk. October 2010.
117. “A Middle Iranian Sound Change”. 31. Deutscher Orientalistentag. Marburg, October 2010.
118. “Indo-European mā ‘to grow’”. XIV. чтения памяти И.М. Тронского. St. Petersburg, June
2010.
119. “The Origin and Morphological Structure of Hitt. aniye/a- ‘to do’ ”. V. Традиционные
чтения памяти С.А. Старостина. Moscow, April 2010.
120. “Who were the Trojans?” American Institute of Archaeology, Rockford Branch. Rockford,
IL, invited talk. February 2010.
121. “The Origin of Anatolian Hieroglyphic Writing”. University of Chicago, Oriental Institute,
invited talk. December 2009.
122. “Iranian mā ‘to become, to be’ and its Indo-European Cognates”. 21th Annual UCLA Indo-
European Conference. Los Angeles, October 2009.
123. “From Lower Land to Cappadocia”. Urartu and its Neighbours, an international conference.
Erevan, September 2009.
124. “Социолингвистика лувийского языка”. Moscow State University, Faculty of Philology,
invited talk. September 2009.
125. “Anaptyxis in Hitt. *spand- ‘to libate’: One More Case of Luvian Influence on New Hittite”.
XIII. чтения памяти И.М. Тронского. St. Petersburg, June 2009.
126. “Phonetic Interpretation of Hurrian Sibilants in the Light of Indo-European Evidence”. The
Sound of Indo-European: Phonetics, Phonemics, and Morphophonemics. Copenhagen, April
2009.
127. “Linguistic Convergence between Bactrian and Sogdian”. 16th Annual Central Eurasian
Studies Conference. Bloomington, IN, February 2009.
128. “West Semitic god El in Anatolian hieroglyphic transmission”. American Oriental Society,
2009. Midwestern Regional Meeting. Bourbonnais, IL, February 2009.
129. “Luvians and Greeks: Linguistic Diversity in Pre-Classical Anatolia”. UC Berkeley
(Linguistics) and UCLA (Indo-European Studies), invited talks. January 2009.
130. (with M. Valério) “The Spread of the Word for “Iron” in the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean”.
Intercultural Contacts in the Eastern Mediterranean. Cairo, October 2008.
131. “Who invented the Anatolian Hieroglyphic Script?” VII International Congress of
Hittitology. Çorum, Turkey, August 2008.
132. “Corpus Approach to the Decipherment of Ancient Scripts”. Conference in Corpus Methods
in Linguistics and Language Pedagogy, Chicago, March 2008.
133. “The Deeds of Anitta and the Legend of Sargon”. American Oriental Society, 218th Annual
Meeting. Chicago, March 2008.
134. “The Origin of Luvian Possessive Adjectives”. 19th Annual UCLA Indo-European
Conference. Los Angeles, November 2007.
135. “Pragmatics of Code-Switching in the Hittite Empire”. Arbeitstagung of the
Indogermanische Gesellschaft. Marburg, September 2007.
136. “Linguistic Contacts between Luvian and Hurrian: the Case of Possessive Constructions with
Plural Possessor”. 53rd Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale. Moscow, July 2007.
137. “The Merger of Nominative and Accusative Plural in Hattusa Luvian”. Colloque “Variations,
concurrence et évolution des cas”. Paris, April 2007.
138. “The Status of Luvian in the Hittite Empire”. University College, London, Department of
Greek and Latin, invited talk. March 2007.
139. “Pragmatics of the Glossenkeil in Bronze Age Syria and Anatolia”. American Oriental
Society, 217th Annual Meeting. San Antonio, March 2007.
140. “Clitic Reduplication in Neo-Hittite”. Linguistic Society of America, 2007 Annual Meeting.
Anaheim, CA, January 2007.
141. “Asymmetrical Bilingualism in the Hittite Empire”. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
invited talk. October 2006.
142. “Achaemenid Religion according to the Administative Documents from Persepolis”. Society
for Scholars of Zoroastrianism – 2006. Burr Ridge IL, June-July 2006.
143. “Life after Death: a Linguist’s View. Grammatical Evolution without Native Transmission”.
École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris. June 2006.
144. “Word Order and Information Structure in Aramaic of the Book of Daniel”. Framing Plots,
an interdisciplinary conference. London, December 2005.
145. “Prehistoric contacts between Hittites and Luwians”. School of Oriental and African Studies,
London, invited talk. December 2005.
146. “The Origin of Anatolian Medio-passive Extensions -si and -di”. 17th Annual UCLA Indo-
European Conference. Los Angeles, November 2005.
147. “Were Hittite Kings Divinely Anointed?” VI International Congress of Hittitology. Rome,
September 2005.
148. “Internal Negation in Urartian”. 51st Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale. Chicago, July
2005.
149. (with Y. Yoshida) “The Sogdian Samghāṭasūtra”. American Oriental Society, 215th meeting.
Philadelphia, April 2005.
150. “Two Armenian Etymologies”. 3rd Graduate Student Colloquium in Armenian Studies. Los
Angeles, February 2005.
151. “Development of Anatolian Prefixes in Lydian”. 16th Annual UCLA Indo-European
Conference. Los Angeles, November 2004.
152. “Luwian Migrations in Light of Linguistic Contacts”. Hittites, Greeks, and their Neighbors
in Ancient Anatolia. An International Conference in Cross-Cultural Interaction. Atlanta,
September 2004.
153. “The Syntactic Evolution of Aramaic ZY in Sogdian”. 37th International Congress of Asian
and North African Studies. Moscow, July 2004.
154. “Antecedent-free head-noun ellipsis in Hittite and elsewhere”. 40th annual meeting of the
Chicago Linguistic Society’. Chicago, April 2004.
 155. “Marriage on the Silk Road: A Comparative Analysis”. American Oriental Society, 214th
meeting. San-Diego, March 2004.
156. “Three kinds of ZY in Sogdian”. V International Conference of Iranian Studies. Ravenna,
October 2003.
157. “Against the Absolute Genitive in Hittite”. V International Congress of Hittitology. Çorum,
Turkey, September 2002.
158. “The importance of Turfan texts for Iranian Lexicography”. Turfan Revisited (The First
Century of Research into the Arts and Cultures of the Silk Road). Berlin, September 2002.
159. “Sogdian Documents on the Arab Conquest of Sogdia”. American Oriental Society 212th
meeting. Houston, March 2002.
160. “Sogdian Marriage Contract Nov. 4 in the Light of Parallel Documents”, Iranistik in Europa:
Gestern – Heute – Morgen. Graz, Austria, February 2002.
161. (with G. Starostin) “Constraining Brugmann’s Law”. 13th Annual UCLA Indo-European
Conference. Los-Angeles, November 2001.
162. “Nugae Sogdicae”. American Oriental Society, 211th meeting. Toronto, March 2001.
163. “Die -ā- Präterita im Slavischen und Indogermanischen”. Institut für Sprachwissenschaft der
Universität Köln, invited talk. October 2000.
164. “Sarmato-Caucasica”. Iranistik 2000: Aktuelle Trends iranistischer Forschung, Bamberg,
Germany, invited talk. October 2000.
165. (with A. Kassian) “Indo-European initial clusters in Hittite”, 12th Annual UCLA Indo-
European Conference, Los-Angeles, May 2000.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE (in thematic order)

Undergraduate and Graduate Courses

“Introduction to Linguistics III (Sociolinguistics and Historical Linguistics)”. University of Chicago,

Spring 2006.
“Languages of the World”. University of Chicago, Spring 2005.
“Historical Linguistics”. University of Chicago, Autumn 2004 (teaching assistant), Winter 2008.
“Introduction to Indo-European Linguistics”. University of Chicago, Winter 2006, Spring 2008.
“Historical Grammar of Latin”. University of Marburg, Winter 2017/2018.
“Old Church Slavonic”, University of Marburg, Winter 2014/2015.
“Hittite”. Russian State University for the Humanities, Autumn 2013, Spring 2015.
“Introduction to Luwian”. Charles’ University, Prague, Autumn 2015.
“Hieroglyphic Luwian”. University of Chicago (taught jointly with Theo van den Hout), Spring 2005,
University of Oxford, Winter 2011; Russian State University for the Humanities, Autumn 2013,
Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016; University of Marburg, Winter 2015/2016.
“Cuneiform Luwian”. Russian State University for the Humanities, Autumn 2017.
“Introduction to Lycian”. Russian State University for the Humanities, Autumn 2016.
“Introduction to Lydian”. Russian State University for the Humanities, Spring 2017; University of
Marburg, Summer 2018.
“Introduction to Lydian and Carian”. University of Marburg, Summer 2022.
“Civilizations of Pre-Islamic Iran”. University of Oxford, Autumn 2012; University of Marburg, Summer
2016
“Old Persian”. University of California in Berkeley, Spring 1998; University of Chicago, Winter 2009;
University of Oxford, Winter, Autumn 2011; University of Marburg, Summer 2014, Winter
2018/2019.
“Avestan”. Russian State University for the Humanities, Autumn 2009; University of Oxford Spring,
Autumn 2011; Spring, Autumn 2012.
“Introduction to Middle Iranian”. University of Oxford, Winter 2012.
“Middle Persian and Parthian”. University of Oxford, Spring 2011.
“Sogdian”. Russian State University for the Humanities, Autumn 2010.

Oxford Tutorial Cycles

“History of Zoroastrianism”. Winter 2011.

“Topics in Achaemenid History”. Spring 2011.
“Indo-Iranian Comparative Philology”. Spring 2011, Winter 2012.
“History of the Persian Language”. Autumn 2011.
“Hittite”. Spring, Autumn 2012.

Continuing Education Courses at the Oriental Institute, Chicago.

“Cultures of the Silk Road”. Spring 2004, Autumn 2006.

“Troy and the Trojan War: a Story Not Told by Homer”. Autumn 2005, Spring 2009.
“Life and Legacy of Zoroaster”. Winter 2005.
“You say watar, I say water: in Search of Indo-Europeans”. Spring 2008.
“When East First Met West: Greek and Roman Exploration of the Orient”. Autumn 2008.
“From the Nile to the Indus: The Ancient Persian Empire”. Winter 2009.
“Cultures of Ancient Afghanistan”. Autumn 2009

SUPERVISION OF GRADUATE STUDENTS

Supervising a Dissertation

Maksim Kudrinski, Гетерографические единицы в хеттских текстах. Dissertation defended at the

Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences (2018).

Supervising Master’s Theses

Anna Sadykova. The particle pa= in contrast with other discourse particles in Luwian cuneiform texts
(on the basis of the better-preserved passages). Thesis accepted at the University of Marburg
(2019).
Sergey Boroday, Происхождение древнеиндийских презентных основ IX класса и их место в
системе назальных презенсов. Thesis defended at the Russian State University for the
Humanities (2012).

Membership in Dissertation Committees

Elena Martínez Rodríguez. Corpus of the Lycian and Hieroglyphic Luwian Kinship Lexicon. University
of Barcelona (2020).
Laura Puértolas Rubio. Le corps entravé. Étude des pratiques de sorcellerie de l’Anatolie ancienne
d’après les textes cunéiformes hittites et louvites. Sorbonne University (2019).
Elise Fontaine. Des noms à ceux qui les portaient: Apport des données onomastiques à l’histoire des
peuples d’Anatolie occidentale au tournant de l’âge du bronze et de l’âge du fer. University of
Louvain-la-Neuve (2019).
David Sasseville. The Pre-History of the Verbal Stem Formation in the Luwic Languages. University of
Marburg (2019).
Maria Molina, Порядок слов в хеттском языке: корпусные методы и анализ в типологической
перспективе. Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences (2019).
Florian Réveillac, Contact linguistique et emprunts onomastiques entre grec et lycien: apports à la
phonetique et à la morphologie. Sorbonne university (2018).
Laurianne Locatelli, La toponymie et l’ethnonymie de la Pisidie (XIIIe c. a.C.; début IVe s. p.C.).
University of Louvain-la-Neuve (2017).
Olga Sergeeva, Концепции «протетических» гласных и подвижных согласных в истории
индоевропейского языкознания. Moscow State University (2013).

HONORARY GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND AWARDS

DAAD grant for academic travel, 2022.

First Prize of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, awarded in a competition
for the best monograph published in 2019.
Humboldt Fellowship, 2013-15.
First Prize of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, awarded in a competition
for the best monographs published in 2013.
Baron Lorne Thyssen Grant (academic travel, workshop organization). 2012, 2011.
Jill Hart Fellowship in Indo-Iranian Philology (University of Oxford, first tenant). 2011-12.
Oliver Gurney Memorial Award for the best paper in Anatolian Studies by a junior scholar (University of
Liverpool). First Prize. 2009.
Award for Excellence of the Friends and Alumni of the Indo-European Studies (UCLA) for the best
conference paper by a junior scholar. 2007.
Mellon Foundation / University of Chicago Dissertation Year Fellowship. 2006-7.
François Furet Travel Grant (short-term stay in France). 2006.
Stuart Tave Teaching Fellowship (declined). 2006.
Doolittle-Harrison fellowship (academic travel). 2005, 2004.
Oppenheim Grant (supplementary stipend). 2005.
FLAS (Title 6) fellowship for summer study of Turkish. 2004.
DAAD fellowship for research work in Germany, 1 year. 2002.
University of Chicago, Century Fellowship, 5 years (awarded to top 2 incoming students in the
department). 2001-6.
UC Berkeley, Dean’s Normative Time Fellowship, 1 year (declined). 2001-2.
Houtan Fellowship, http://www.houtan.org/, first tenant, 6 months). 2000.
DAAD Fellowship for summer study in Germany. 1999.
Mellon Research/Travel Grant. Summer 1999.
Humanities and Social Sciences Research Grant Summer 1998.
UC Berkeley, William and Flora Hewlett Fellowship, 3 years. 1997-2000.
Soros Graduate Fellowship (grant #H2B70H), 1 year. 1997-8.
Moscow Mayor Fellowship for Excellence in Undergraduate Studies (awarded to the top student in the
department). 1995-6.

FUNDED RESEARCH PROJECTS AND RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

“LuwGramm: A Grammar of the Luwian Language”. Research project funded by the Deutsche
Forschungsgemeinschaft. Principal Investigator. 2022-2025.
“Los dialectos lúvicos del grupo anatolio: gramática descriptiva y comparativа”. Research project funded
by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, Government of Spain, Field officer, 2019-22.
“Luwili: Luwian Religious Discourse between Anatolia and Syria”. Research project funded by the
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, in partnership with the Agence Nationale de la Recherche
(France). Principal Investigator. 2018-2021.
“Pre-Classical Anatolian Languages in Contact”. Project Funded by the European Research Counsel
(grant agreement n° 757299). External Advisor. 2017-2022.
“Cuneiform and Hieroglyphic Luwian in their linguistic, geographical and historical context”. Resarch
project funded by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, Government of Spain, Field
officer, 2016-19.
“Digitales Philologisch-Etymologisches Wörterbuch der Anatolischen Kleinkorpussprachen”. Research
project funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. Research associate, 2015-2017.
“Los ‘dialectos lúvicos’ del grupo anatolio indoeuropeo: aproximaciones genéticas y areales”. Resarch
project funded by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, Government of Spain, Field
officer 2013-16.
“Egea i Lewant na przełomie epoki brązu i żelaza”. Research project within the framework of the National
Program of the Development of the Humanities of the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher
Education, Field Officer, 2013-15.
«Полный аннотированный корпус лувийских текстов». Research grant of the Presidium of the Russian
Academy of Sciences. Principal Investigator. 2012-2014.
“Sociolinguistic Situation in Bronze and Iron Age Near East”. Research project within the framework of
the Russian Federal Program “Научные и научно-педагогические кадры инновационной
России 2009-2013” (Contract № 02.740.11.5204), Research Associate. 2010-2011.
Participation in the Leadership Development and Education for Sustained Peace Program (lecturing
American soldiers on the history of Afghanistan). 2009
Devising Russian tests for State Certified Court Interpreters (project sponsored by the Judicial Counsel,
State of California). 2004-2005, 2007-2009.
“Automatic Recognition of the Corpus of Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions for the Use of the Chicago
Hittite Dictionary”. Graduate student grant of the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago.
Principal Investigator, Summer 2003.
Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Turfanforschung Project, visiting research
fellow. April-December 2002.
Central Asia - Silk Road Working Group, Graduate Student Researcher. University of California in
Berkeley, Autumn 1997.

ORGANIZATION OF CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS

Contacts in Pre-Hellenistic Anatolia and Ancient Near East - From Languages to Texts. Joint workshop
of the luwili and PALaC projects. Convened jointly with Federico Giusfredi and Alice Mouton.
25-27 February 2021.
Religious Discourse in the Ancient Near East. Conference of the luwili project. Organized jointly with
Alice Mouton. Paris, 12-13 December 2019.
Luwian in Cuneiform. Workshop within the framework of the 65e Rencontre Assyriologique
Internationale. Convened jointly with Alice Mouton. Paris, 10 July 2019.
8th International Conference on Iranian Linguistics. Organized jointly with Agnes Korn and Vardan
Voskanian. Erevan, 11-13 October 2018.
Sumerian and Akkadian Elements in Hittite Texts. Workshop within the framework of the 63e Rencontre
Assyriologique Internationale. Convened jointly with Mark Weeden. Marburg, 25 July 2017.
Slavic Origins: A linguistic-historical workshop. Convened jointly with Marek Jankowiak. Wolfson
College, Oxford, 10 December 2012.
N.Y. Merpert Memorial Conference, Philological Section. Convened jointly with Tatyana Mikhaylova.
Moscow, September 2012.
Jos Weitenberg memorial workshop on the history of Armenian. Convened jointly with Theo van Lint.
Wolfson College, Oxford, 7 and 9 May 2012.
Linguistic Decipherment in the 21st Century: the Hieroglyphs of Ancient Anatolia. Convened jointly with
Jacob Dahl. Wolfson College, Oxford, 20-21 October 2011.
 MEMBERSHIP IN PROGRAMME COMMITEES

Ninth International Conference on Iranian Linguistics (ICIL-9). Vienna, 20-22 August 2020.
The International Colloquium on Loanwords and Substrata in Indo-European languages. Limoges, France,
4-7 June 2018.
The Aegean and the Levant at the Turn of the Bronze and Iron Ages. Workshop II. Warsaw, 11-12 June
2015.
Hittitology Today: Studies on Hittite and Neo-Hittite Anatolia in honor of Emmanuel Laroche’s 100th
Birthday. Istanbul, 21-22 November 2014.

ACADEMIC GRANT/PRIZE EVALUATION

Czech Science Foundation (occasional grant reviewer)

National Science Centre Poland (occasional grant reviewer)
Sapienza University of Rome (occasional grant reviewer)
Indogermanische Gesellshaft (occasional dissertation reviewer)

EDITORIAL COLLABORATION

Editorial Board / Advisory Board Membership: Journal of Language Relationship (www.jolr.ru),

Aramazd / Armenian Journal of Near Eastern Studies
(http://www.archaeopress.com/ArchaeopressShop/Public/defaultAll.asp?Series=ARAMAZD),
Colloquium Anatolicum https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/collan
Occasional Internal Peer-Reviewing for Journals: Transactions of the Philological Society,
Diachronica, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Journal of the Royal Asiatic
Society, Journal of Near Eastern Studies, Journal of American Oriental Society, Bulletin of the
American School of Oriental Research, Aramaic Studies, Linguistique balcanique, Historische
Sprachforschung, Indogermanische Forschungen, Indo-European Linguistics, Altorientalische
Forschungen, Middle East - Topics & Arguments, Acta Orientalia (Finland /Norway/Sweden),
Palamedes, Anadolu Araştırmaları, Studia Philologica, Вопросы языкознания, Вопросы
ономастики, Урало-алтайские исследования, Российская тюркология.
Occasional Internal Peer-Reviewing for Publishers: Brill, Oxford University Press, Lockwood Press.
Reviewing and editing academic work on behalf of the Russian Academy of Sciences:
1. Stolbova O.V. Chadic Lexical Database. Issue IV (Velars). Moscow, 2011 (reviewer).
2. Коган А.И. Проблемы сравнительно-исторического изучения языка Кашмири. Москва,
2016 (editor).
3. Кулланда С.В. Скифы: язык и этногенез. Москва, 2016 (editor).
4. Рубинчик Ю.А., Талыбова С.Э. Теоретическая грамматика современного персидского
языка. Морфология: учебник для студентов II-III курса переводческого факультета.
Москва, 2017 (reviewer).

LANGUAGES

Fluency and Speaking Proficiency: Russian (mother tongue), English, French, German, Italian.
Advanced Reading Proficiency: Spanish, Persian, Turkish, East Armenian, Old Persian, Sogdian, Latin,
Hittite, Luwian, Palaic, Lydian, Lycian.
Also completed coursework in Homeric and Classical Greek, Vedic and Classical Sanskrit, Old Church
Slavonic, Old Russian, Old Norse, Lithuanian, Avestan, Middle Persian, Parthian, Baluchi, Wakhi,
Carian, Classical Armenian, Albanian, Arabic, Akkadian, Elamite, Hurrian, Urartian.

LANGUAGE CERTIFICATES

Goethe Institut Dresden, German, Oberstufe. 1999.

Corsi internazionali della lingua e cultura italiana (Università di Milano). 1998.
Familiarizing and Advancement with the Persian Language and Culture (Tehran). 1997.

FIELD WORK

Xinjiang, China (Tashqurghan autonomous district): Investigation of the modern Iranian languages of
China (Wakhi and Saryqoli). August 1998.
Tajikistan (Khujand district). Investigation of the Northern Tajiki dialects. August 1996.
Northern Siberia. Investigation of the Nganasan language (Uralic family). July-August 1992.

PARTICIPATION IN A ROUND TABLE

An den Wurzeln des hethitischen Staates. Das “Politische Testament” Ḫattušilis I. German-Italian
Cooperation in the Humanities. German-Italian Center for European Excellence, Loveno, Italy,
April 2018.