Helma van den Berg

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]

Helma van den Berg
Born
Helma Everdina van den Berg

(1965-05-26)May 26, 1965
Veenendaal, Netherlands
DiedNovember 11, 2003(2003-11-11) (aged 38)
Derbent, Daghestan, Russia
OccupationLinguist, translator
AwardsVIDI Innovation Fellowship
Academic background
Alma materLeiden University
Academic work
DisciplineLinguistics
Sub-disciplineCaucasian languages
InstitutionsMax Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

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
  1. "LINGUIST List 14.3441: Obituary: Helma van den Berg". The LINGUIST List. 2003-12-12. Retrieved 2018-09-25.
  2. "Helma van den Berg". 2009-11-02. Archived from the original on 2009-11-02. Retrieved 2018-09-25.
  3. 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.
  4. "Caucasology". www.nplg.gov.ge. Retrieved 2018-09-25.


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