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Değerli dilbilimci Muhadin
Kumakhov 7 Haziran günü bir süredir devam eden
hastalığı nedeniyle hayata veda etti. Muhadin Kumakhov
Çerkes dili konusunda yaşayan en büyük
dilbilimcilerdendi. Cenazesi bugün (10 Haziran)
Nalçik'te toprağa verilecek. Kendisine Allahtan rahmet,
Ailesine ve tüm camiamıza başsağlığı diliyoruz.
Kafkas Dernekleri
Federasyonu
In memoriam
Mukhadin A. Kumakhov – 1928-2008
The great Circassian
linguist Mukhadin A. Kumakhov passed away in Moscow on
June 7.
Mukhadin Kumakhov
graduated from Tbilisi State University, where he
continued his doctoral dissertation under the guidance
of the Georgian caucasologist Arnold Chikobava. As a
professor of the Institute of Linguistics the Academy of
Sciences in Moscow, and for many years the Head of the
section for Comparative Linguistics at this institution,
his scientific contributions to Caucasology and General
linguistics received wide international recognition. He
was a member of the Georgian Academy of Sciences,
elected honory doctor of Lund University (Sweden) and a
member of the Societas Caucasologica Europaea. For his
contributions to the development of Caucasology he was
awarded the Chikobava Prize of the Georgian Academy of
Sciences. He was the chief-editor of the recently
published Adyghe (Circassian) Encyclopeadia (in Russian).
He has taken part
in many international caucasological conferences and
gatherings, for instance, in London, Oxford, Paris,
Istanbul, Ankara, Berlin, Munich, San Sebastian. He
spent several years as visiting professor at the
Department of Linguistics at Lund University (Sweden),
where he wrote a number of articles and two monographs
(in cooperation with prof. Karina Vamling).
Photo:
Professor Kumakhov at the ceremony for honory doctors at
Lund University (Sweden), 1998, together with prof.
Karina Vamling
Professor Kumakhov
published over two hundred scientific articles and
twelve monographs, among them: Inflection of the Adyghe
languages (in Russian), Historical-comparative phonetics
of the Adyghe (Circassian) languages (in Russian),
Historical-comparative grammar of the Adyghe (Circassian)
languages (in Russian), Studies in General and Caucasian
linguistics (in Russian), Ergativity in the Circassian
languages (in Russian), Circassian clause structure (in
English, in press).
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