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Igor V. Nedjalkov (1951-2021)<br>
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With great sadness I report the passing of Igor' Vladimirovič
Nedjalkov (Игорь Владимирович Недялков), a senior scientist at the
Institute of Linguistic Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences
and a professor at Saint Petersburg State University, on March 28.<br>
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Nedjalkov was best-known internationally from his grammar of the
Tungusic language Evenki (Routledge 1997), but he has long been
interested in typological aspects of the grammar of Eurasian
languages.<br>
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The 1987 paper "On the typological characteristics of converbs" (V.
Nedjalkov & I. Nedjalkov) was of seminal importance, and
provided the immediate impetus for the 1995 volume (Haspelmath &
König (eds.) <i>Converbs in cross-linguistic perspectice</i>), to
which Igor contributed a paper on converbs in Evenki.<br>
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Nedjalkov was born in Stavropol and first studied English philology
at Pyatigorsk Pedagogical Institute, before finishing his Ph.D. in
Leningrad in 1977, on participles in the Tungusic languages. He
worked as a professor of English at Bryansk Pedagogical Institute
until 1985, when he transferred to Leningrad/Saint Petersburg and
began focusing fully on eastern Eurasian languages and typological
questions.<br>
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His articles include work on Karachay-Balkar, Kalmyk, Orok, Oroch,
Chukchi, Evenki, Nivkh, Mongolian, Manchu, Negidal, and Yakut, as
well as many comparative works on Tungusic and Altaic languages.<br>
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In the early 1990s, he was a participant of the EUROTYP group on
adverbial constructions (led by Johan van der Auwera), contributing
a chapter on converbs in the languages of Europe
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110802610.421">https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110802610.421</a>). Subsequently he was a
visiting researcher in Antwerp, Leipzig, Pavia and elsewhere. Our
2010 volume <i>Studies in ditransitive constructions</i> contains a
chapter on ditransitives in Tungusic languages by Andrej Malchukov
and Igor Nedjalkov (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110220377.316">https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110220377.316</a>)<br>
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Igor V. Nedjalkov was the son of the typologist Vladimir P.
Nedjalkov (1928-2009).<br>
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Martin Haspelmath<br>
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P.S. Much of the information in this obituary comes from Nedjalkov's
web page: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://iling.spb.ru/grammatikon/pers_ned.html">https://iling.spb.ru/grammatikon/pers_ned.html</a><br>
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Martin Haspelmath
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