Peter Arkadiev graduated from the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow in 2004, and in 2006 defended there his PhD dissertation “Typology of two-term case systems” (in Russian). In 2019 he defended his Habilitation “Areal typology of prefixal perfectivisation” (in Russian) at the Institute for Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 2005–2022 he was a research fellow at the Department  of Typology and comparative linguistics of the Institute for Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and in 2008–2022 an Assistant Professor (from 2021 Professor) at the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian State University for the Humanities. In 2022, being opposed to Putin’s regime’s military invasion into Ukraine and oppression of human rights, he left Russia and assumed a temporary position at the University of Zurich.

Academic interests: language typology and wide-scale cross-linguistic comparison; areal linguistics and language contact; case systems and argument structure; tense-aspect-actionality; morphological complexity, polysynthesis and morphology-syntax interface; Baltic languages; Slavic languages; Northwest Caucasian languages.

Member of Association of Linguistic Typology, Societas Linguistica Europea and Academia Salensis.

Project:

'Ill-bred sons', family and friends: tracing the multiple affiliations of Balkan Slavic

Topics of research:

Balkan clitic-doubling in cross-linguistic perspective; areal and typological perspectives on morphosyntactic convergence in the Balkans with reference to morphological complexity.

(for a full list of publications as well as electronic versions, please, contact me by email)

Monograph:

“Areal Typology of Prefixal Perfectivization” (in Russian, Moscow, 2015)

Edited volumes:

“Studies in the Typology of Slavic, Baltic and Balkan Languages” (with Vyačeslav V. Ivanov, in Russian; 2013)

“Borrowed Morphology” (together with Francesco Gardani & Nino Amiridze, De Gruyter Mouton, 2014)

“Contemporary Approaches to Baltic Linguistics”  (with Axel Holvoet & Björn Wiemer, De Gruyter Mouton, 2015)

“The Complexities of Morphology” (with Francesco Gardani, Oxford University Press, 2020)

“Studies in Baltic and Other Languages: A Festschrift for Axel Holvoet” (together with Jurgis Pakerys, Inesa Šeškauskienė and Vaiva Žeimantienė, Vilnius University Press, 2021)

Selected articles in journals and books in English:

Morphology of the Caucasian languages: a typological overview. Jezikoslovni Zapiski, Vol. 28 (2022), No. 1, pp. 7–38. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3986/JZ.28.1.01

(together with Anna Daugavet) The perfects in Latvian and Lithuanian: A comparative study based on questionnaire and corpus data. Baltic Linguistics special issue Studies in the TAME Domain in Baltic and its Neighbours, Vol. 12 (2021), 73–165. DOI: https://doi.org/10.32798/bl.922

(together with Yury Lander) The Northwest Caucasian languages. In: Maria Polinsky (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the Languages of the Caucasus. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021, 369–446. DOI:   10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190690694.013.3

Borrowing non-canonical inverse between Kabardian and Abaza. Word Structure 14-2 (2021), special issue “Morphology in Contact”, ed. by Francesco Gardani & Franz Rainer, 148–173. DOI 10.3366/word.2021.0185

(Together with Björn Wiemer) 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, 2020, 123–214. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.352.05ark

Syntax in morphological guise: Interrogative verbal morphology in Abaza. Linguistic Typology 24-2 (2020), 211–251. https://doi.org/10.1515/lingty-2020-5004

(Non)finiteness, constructions, and participles in Lithuanian. Linguistics 58-2 (2020), 379–424. https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2020-0045

Non-canonical inverse in Circassian languages. Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung 73-1 (2020), 81–111. https://doi.org/10.1515/stuf-2019-0028

(together with Francesco Gardani) Complexities in Morphology. An introduction. In: Peter Arkadiev & Francesco Gardani (eds.), The Complexities of Morphology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020, 1–19. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198861287.003.0001

(together with Yakov Testelets) Differential nominal marking in Circassian. Studies in Language 43-3 (2019), 715–751. https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.18063.ark

(Together with Marian Klamer) Morphological theory and typology. In: Francesca Masini & Jenny Audring (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Morphological Theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019, 435–454. DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199668984.013.34

(together with Timur Maisak) 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

Multiple ergatives: From allomorphy to differential agent marking. Studies in Language 41-3 (2017), 717–780. https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.41.3.06ark

Borrowed prefixes and the limits of contact-induced change in aspectual systems. In: Rosanna Benacchio, Alessio Muro & Svetlana Slavkova (eds.), The Role of Prefixes in the Formation of Aspectuality. Issues of Grammaticalization. (Biblioteca di Studi Slavistici 39) Firenze: Firenze University Press, 2017, pp. 1–21. DOI: 10.36253/978-88-6453-698-9.03

(Together with Yury Lander) On the right of being a comparative concept. Linguistic Typology 20-2 (2016), 403–416. https://doi.org/10.1515/lingty-2016-0014

The Berber “state” distinction: dependent marking after all? A commentary on Mettouchi & Frajzyngier 2013. Linguistic Typology 19-1 (2015), 87–110. https://doi.org/10.1515/lingty-2015-0003

(together with Axel Holvoet and Björn Wiemer) 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, 2015, 1–109. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110343953-002

(together with Jurgis Pakerys) 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, 2015, 39–97. https://doi.org/10.1075/vargreb.2.01ark

Towards an areal typology of prefixal perfectivization. Scando-Slavica 60-2 (2014), 384–405. https://doi.org/10.1080/00806765.2014.984473

Marking of subjects and objects in Lithuanian non-finite clauses: A typological and diachronic perspective. Linguistic Typology 17-3 (2013), 397–437. https://doi.org/10.1515/lity-2013-0020

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, 2012, 285–334. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110280692.285

Stems in Lithuanian verbal inflection (with remarks on derivation). Word Structure 5-1 (2012), 7–27. https://doi.org/10.3366/word.2012.0017

Aspect and actionality in Lithuanian on a typological background. In: Daniel Petit, Claire Le Feuvre & Henri Menantaud (eds.), Langues baltiques, langues slaves. Paris: Éditions CNRS, 2011, 57–86.

Notes on the Lithuanian restrictive. Baltic Linguistics 1 (2010), 9–49.

Poor (two-term) case systems: Limits of neutralization. In: Andrej Malchukov & Andrew Spencer (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Case. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009, 686–699. DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199206476.013.0048

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, 2008, 101–117. DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199238385.003.0004