Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Deutscher Platz 6
Tel.: +49 (341) 3550 - 336
Fax: +49 (341) 3550 - 333
Email: khaliloveva.mpg.de, madjid-khmail.ru
Madzhid Khalilov is an invited scientist in the department of linguistics. He defended his candidate degree on "Bezhta Lexicon" in 1981 and his doctoral degree on "Georgian-Dagestan language contacts" in 1993. He became a professor in 2004 and he works at the Daghestan Centre of Science of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
His research interests in Makhachkala are lexicology and lexicography of Daghestanian and Caucasian language and language contact.
He currently works together with Bernard Comrie on projects as "The Intercontinental Dictionary Series" (50 Daghestanian languages and dialects) and "A Grammar of Bezhta" (phonetics and word formation).
Intercontinental Dictionary Series (IDS)
The Intercontinental Dictionary Series (IDS), a long-term cooperative project, involves linguists all over the world, and aims at preserving information on little-known languages. To this end, a database will be established, where lexical material across the continents is organized in such a way that comparisons can be made. Historical studies, comparative, and theoretical linguistic research can then be based on this documentation. [more]