Helma van den Berg
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Helma van den Berg | |
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| Born | Helma Everdina van den Berg May 26, 1965 Veenendaal, Netherlands |
| Died | November 11, 2003 (aged 38) |
| Occupation(s) | Linguist, translator |
| Awards | VIDI Innovation Fellowship |
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| Alma mater | Leiden University |
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| Discipline | Linguistics |
| Sub-discipline | Caucasian languages |
| Institutions | Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology |
Helma van den Berg (May 26, 1965 – November 11, 2003) was a linguist specializing in Caucasian languages. Van den Berg was born in Veenendaal, the Netherlands, and died in Derbent, Daghestan, Russia.[1][2] She earned her PhD from Leiden University. In addition to being a linguist, van den Berg was an accredited translator of Russian and Polish. Van den Berg did field work on two under-documented East Caucasian languages: Hunzib and Dargi, producing a Hunzib reference grammar and a collection of Dargi folktales with accompanying sketch grammar. At the time of her death, van den Berg was the resident specialist of Caucasian languages at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig and was working on a grammar of Avar. She was also the recipient of a VIDI Innovation Fellowship from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research.[3]
Selected Publications[4]
- A grammar of Hunzib (with texts and lexicon). 1995. Munchen: Lincom Europa.
- Dargi folktales. Oral stories from the Caucasus with an introduction to Dargi grammar. 2001. Leiden: Research School of Asian, African and Amerindian Studies.
- A Dargi electronic dictionary: the perspective of the linguist and the speakers. 2003. // I Международный симпозиум по полевой лингвистике. Тезисы докладов. Москва, сс. 8-9.
References
- ^ "LINGUIST List 14.3441: Obituary: Helma van den Berg". The LINGUIST List. 2003-12-12. Retrieved 2018-09-25.
- ^ "Helma van den Berg". 2009-11-02. Archived from the original on 2009-11-02. Retrieved 2018-09-25.
- ^ Boeder, Winfried; Comrie, Bernard; Hewitt, George (January 2005). "In memoriam Helma Everdina van den Berg (1965–2003)". Lingua. 115 (1–2): 191–193. doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2004.01.009. ISSN 0024-3841.
- ^ "Caucasology". www.nplg.gov.ge. Retrieved 2018-09-25.
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