Khaidakov, S. The Dargwa and Megeb Languages: Principles of Inflection (Darginskii i megebskii iazyki: printsipy slovoizmeneniya). 1985. In Russian.

Хайдаков, Саид Магомедович. Даргинский и мегебский языки : принципы словоизменения / отв. ред. д-р филол. наук Г.А. Климов ; АН СССР, Ин-т языкознания.
Москва : Наука, 1985. 216 с. 22 см.
Мягкий переплёт. Тираж 600 экз.
Состояние: хорошее.
***
Khaidakov, Said M. The Dargwa and Megeb Languages: Principles of Inflection / ed. by Doctor of Philological Sciences G.A. Klimov ; USSR Academy of Sciences, Institute of Linguistics.
Moscow : Nauka, 1985. 216 pp. 22 cm.
Paper wrappers. Print run of 600 copies.
Condition: good.

Said Magomedovich Khaidakov (1918-2005) was a senior researcher at the Institute of Linguistics of the USSR Academy of Sciences and one of the most productive Soviet specialists in the languages of Dagestan. His earlier works include a comparative dictionary of Dagestanian languages (1973) and monographs on Lak and related Northeast Caucasian languages. The present monograph is a comparative inflectional study of the Dargwa dialectal complex alongside Megeb, a language of Gunibsky district in Dagestan that has developed in relative isolation from the main Dargwa-speaking area and preserves structural features estimated to reflect a stage of Dargwa approximately a thousand years earlier than the other attested varieties. The study draws systematically on data from eight principal Dargwa dialects - Chirag, Khaydak, Tsudakhar, Kichigamin, Girgan, Akusha, Urakhi, and Gubden - compared with Megeb in a historical-comparative framework. Two major chapters treat nominal inflection (plural formation, case paradigms across dialects, semantic fields of local cases, substantivization, pronominal paradigms) and verbal inflection (aspect, transitivity, imperative, prohibitive, jussive, simple future, optative, conditional, auditive, future conditional, infinitive, and personal agreement). The monograph remains the most comprehensive comparative morphological treatment of the Dargwa macro-group and Megeb produced in Soviet linguistics, consistently cited in current research on Dargwa dialects, ergativity, and Caucasian morphological typology, including Diana Forker's grammar of Sanzhi Dargwa. The volume is edited by Georgiy Andreevich Klimov (1928-1997), Doctor of Philological Sciences and head of the Department of Caucasian Languages at the Institute of Linguistics, whose "Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages" (1964) and theory of active-stative typology are foundational contributions to the field.