Maxime Seveleu-Dubrovnik

⊕Affiliation: FIAS, ENS (cf. below)

Horizon of activities:

Linguistic research

Theoretical grammar in general; Comparative syntax of Semitic languages
Hebrew, Arabic grammar, syntax, morphology. Biblical Hebrew ; Persian language.

Mechanics of the Belarusian language. Slavic context
Belarusian grammar, syntax, computational morphology, phonetics, orthoepy, graphic systems. Belarusian Arabic writings.

Language didactics

Belarusian language, literature, civilization

Russian language, literature, civilization

Related activities: Publishing, coordination, translation, administrative, tool development

1 Middle Eastern languages

Persian tools:
Persian text normalization Hebrew resources:
Resources for Biblical Hebrew, BS⁴ Seminars on Persian language at ENS and FIAS
contributor and co-editor (2016)

• Introduction, Texts: in preparation for print
  Grammar overview (in French)

Dov Yarden Workshop on Semitic Syntax and Morphology
contributor and co-organizer (2012—2018)

• Materials

Open Access Persian manual i18n initiative at FIAS
project bearer (2017—now)

• Fārsi: alefbā-ye dovvom

Finite verbal form use in Biblical narration and poetry: qāṭal קָטַל, yiqṭōl יִקְטֹל, wᵉqāṭal וְקָטַל and wayyiqṭol וַיִּקְטֹל
master thesis with P.Cassuto at ENS (2014)

• Web version in preparation

Resources:
Library on Biblical Studies and Philosophy Biblical Hebrew for linguists: morphology and syntax at IBC
project bearer (2020—now)

• Morphological and syntactic engine, description
• Analytical Biblical Hebrew lexicons: en, fr, ru

Open Access Persian manual i18n initiative at FIAS
project bearer (2017—now)

• Fārsi: alefbā-ye dovvom

2 Belarusan, Slavic languages

Belarusan linguistics

Belarusian tools:
Cyrillic to Latin converter β
Stress marker
Belarusian QR code generator Computational morphology of the Belarusan language
Computational orthoepy of the Belarusan language
researcher, developer (2018—now)

• Web resources in preparation

Documenting Belarusan Arabic script at FIAS
project contributor (2019—now)

• The third alphabet of the Belarusian language

Belarusan didactics

Teaching materials: main

• Lucky: a Belarusian Grammar Course
• Fast lexicon learning: wordlists for learners
• Reading: Simple Belarusan texts
• Grammar and Spelling Reference: in preparation

Additional:

• Trasianka, a Belarusan-Russian vernacular register
• Belarusian IT-terminology
• Belarusan Folk Songs

Belarusan Latin script

• Reading Latin script: Belarusan texts for Learners
• Orthography Rules (23.08.2008) and Latin alphabet

Glagolitic didactics

Russian-language didactic materials for the Glagolitic script
Séminaire des études slaves (2019)

• Nous lisons en glagolitique ! vol. R1

Articles, papers

⊕ Inchoative-causative alternation in Persian, M.Seveleu-Dubrovnik. Middle-Eastern languages and linguistic theory, 2015 (pp. 89—97), G.Lang, B.Simons (editors). Keywords: COS verbs, change of state, causative, inchoative, transitive.

⊕ Encoding of the TAM features during predication in the verbless Biblical Hebrew phrases, with contrast from Arabic. M.Seveleu-Dubrovnik, dissertation, 2017. Keywords: minimalist approach, TAM features (tense, aspect, mode), copula, verbless, beth essentiae, absolute infinitive, movement, existentials.

Texts in maturation

Language planning: How (not) to defibrillate a language

• 1. Persian and Hebrew examples from the 19 c.

Drafts:

• Zosima’s wanderings to Brahmins
• Centum and Satem
• Learning Arabic, why’s it taking so long?
• Blog
• Belarusian Discourse

Affiliation

Re­sear­cher at FIAS Paris. Pro­jects in lin­guis­tics: Sla­vic, Middle-Eas­tern lan­gua­ges. PhD (2017), for­mer stu­dent (élève) at École Normale (2010—14).

Corpus maintainer at the Institute for Biblical Content.

Edi­tor at Vodary Paris (world li­te­ra­tures in ori­gi­nal).

Content officer at the Belarusan Discourse and Content Institute (BelDisco).

Identity names: Максим Севелев-Дубровник, Максім Севелеў-Дуброўнік, Maxime Seveleu-Dubrovnik