Mother Tongue • Issue XXVI • 2025 • pp. 4–14

In Memoriam

Vitaly V. Shevoroshkin (1932–2023)

Irén Hegedűs and Václav Blažek

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Vitaly V. Shevoroshkin
Vitaly V. Shevoroshkin

Vitaly V. Shevoroshkin was born on 12 January 1932 in the small historical settlement of New Athos on the Black Sea coast (Abkhazia, Georgian Soviet Republic of the USSR). After 1951, he lived and studied in Moscow. Having graduated from Moscow State University in 1956, he started working at the Institute of Russian Language, Academy of Science of USSR in 1962. He obtained his academic degree (“Candidate of linguistics”/Doctor of Philology) at the Russian Academy of Science in 1965.

In 1974 he emigrated to the USA and began teaching first at the University of Maryland (1974–1975), then held a position of associate professor at Yale University (1975–1978). In 1978 he became visiting associate professor of linguistics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where a year later he was appointed professor of linguistics at the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures. It is from this same department that he retired after 30 years of teaching on May 31, 2009.

His teaching activity covered a vast area of linguistic studies. He taught courses on Anatolian, and other Indo-European languages, which included synchronic and diachronic approaches to Slavic languages, as well as indigenous languages of the Americas. He was member of linguistic organizations such as Societas Linguistica Europaea and the Michigan Linguistic Society (of which he was president in 1986-1987). His publication activity continued for several years after retirement, though abated after 2014, when – after almost 50 years of marriage – he lost his wife, Galina Barinova, also a linguist (married in 1965).

He died on 22 December 2023 in Zürich, Switzerland, where his son, Aleksei lives and works.

Vitaly Shevoroshkin’s oeuvre covered three major areas of linguistic research: A) theoretical aspects of phonetics and phonology, B) ancient Anatolian languages, and C) the hypothesis of distant genetic relationship between language families (with emphasis on the Nostratic hypothesis).

A) Theoretical aspects of phonetics and phonology

Shevoroshkin’s early period of linguistic research focused on theoretical issues of sound-chain patterns. This was the topic of his doctoral dissertation,1 in which his goal was to identify common features of sound sequences shared by languages of the world and to find typological patterns that would facilitate the solution of theoretical issues as well as the decipherment of ancient texts. His monograph of 1965 demonstrated the applicability of the method in the decipherment of the Carian script. He carried on the synchronic line of sound-chain research in a wider scope of languages, and this led to the publication of his monograph of 1969,2 in which he argued that since sound chains in all languages are governed by similar principles (regularity in the sequence of vowels and consonants, etc.), the method is capable of identifying classes and subclasses of various sounds (characters) in a text written in any language.

He also co-authored some articles on Russian phonetics and phonology with his wife, Galina Barinova (1972b; 1988d).

B) His activity in the field of Anatolian studies

Vitaly V. Shevoroshkin belongs to the most productive and at the same time to the most respected scholars in the field of the ancient Anatolian languages. Let us recount his Anatolian linguistic interests in some detail. He published 9 contributions about the Anatolian (= Hittite-Luwian) languages in general (1965d; 1967; 1968c; 1970; 1978a; 1979; 1981; 1982; 1988; 1998; 2015b), and together with Paul Sidwell they edited a collective monograph (2002b). Shevoroshkin devoted individual studies to Hittite (1964a), Luwian (1965f) and Lydian (1968f; plus, the monograph of 1967). He concentrated especially on two Anatolian languages of the first milennium BCE:

Although Shevoroshkin analysed the onomastic data practically in all publications about Anatolian languages, he devoted three special studies focusing exclusively on Anatolian onomastics (1969b; 1978a; 1988a).

Vitaly Shevoroshkin was also a first-class specialist on the scripts of the East Mediterranean and Asia Minor. Besides the standard contributions (1962b; 1965c; 1966a; 1968d; 1972a; 1975) he was also the author of a series of knowledgeable comments on the Russian translations of important studies devoted to the Phaistos Disc, Linear A, Lydian, Carian and Sidetic scripts (1976a, b, c, d, e). It was during the preparation of this volume (edited by Igor M. Djakonov) that Vitaly Shevoroshkin emigrated to the USA. His emigration automatically meant that he became persona non grata, which entailed the prohibition of his publications. For this reason, his name in the volume Тайны древних письмен: проблемы дешифровки [Secrets of old scripts: problems of decipherment] was replaced by fictitious А.Ф. Деяанов, and this way the volume could be published, although everyone among the linguists of the East Block knew about the real identity of the author.

C) Promoting the Nostratic hypothesis and the study of language in prehistory

In 1962 Shevoroshkin met Aharon Dolgopolsky, they both worked at the Department of Structural Linguistics, Russian Language Institute of the Academy. Dolgopolsky had already been working on his Sibiro-European (later called Borealic and then Nostratic) comparisons, and since Shevoroshkin himself noted relevant non-Indo-European correspondences to his Indo-European root list, their discussions frequently concerned the Nostratic hypothesis. The development of the hypothesis gained significant momentum, when Vladimir A. Dybo – aware of the fact that beside Dolgopolsky, another young linguist, Illič-Svityč was investigating the same topic – introduced the two scholars to each other. With the early demise of Illič-Svityč in 1966, Shevoroshkin’s emigration to the US in 1974 and Dolgopolsky’s to Israel in 1976, the Moscow school of Nostratic linguistic research obtained representatives beyond the Russian Academy.

In 1988, Vitaly Shevoroshkin and Ben Stolz organized the First Interdisciplinary Symposium on Language and Prehistory at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. This event brought together linguists focusing on the Nostratic hypothesis with those investigating other hypotheses of linguistic relationship at a deeper time-depth. This was the first opportunity for American experts to meet a group of Russian and East European linguists (including Aharon Dolgopolsky, then already living in Israel) who were specialising in the reconstruction of the Nostratic protolanguage. This symposium has a special relevance for the historiography of linguistics because its aim was to establish communication between linguists and human geneticists in order to approach the complex issue of linguistic prehistory from an interdisciplinary viewpoint. This was quite a revolutionary momentum at that time, and given the present-day heightened attention to the correlation of population genetics and the historical migration routes of speakers of different languages, it is easy to see that Vitaly intended to steer the development of historical-comparative linguistic research in the right direction. This, however, does not mean that the prestige of Nostratic or long-range linguistic comparison has won general recognition, but the symposium and the subsequent period showed an increased interest in these contested issues of language in prehistory. The proceedings and related materials were published in a sequence of several volumes in Germany (1989a, 1989b; 1990; 1991; 1992).

Vitaly’s professional support and friendship is gratefully acknowledged by both authors of this obituary. Vitaly and his wife Galina Barinova were the kindest of hosts and welcomed us to their home in Ann Arbor, Michigan. We also treasure the pleasant memories of meeting them during their professional or private visits in Europe.

Irén Hegedűs (University of Pécs, Hungary) and
Václav Blažek (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic)

1 «К исследованию некоторых закономерностей строения звуковых цепей. (В связи с проблемами идентификации лингвистических единиц)» [On the investigation of some regularities in the structure of sound-chains. (On the connection with the problems of identifying linguistic units)] ↩

2 2nd edition published in 2004. ↩

3 In the same volume the opening chapter was V. M. Illič-Svityč’s Древнейшие индоевропейско-семитские языковые контакты. [The earliest Indo-European–Semitic language contacts] ↩

Vitaly V. Shevoroshkin’s list of publications

Books

1965 — Исследования по дешифровке карийских надписей. [Investigations in the decipherment of Carian inscriptions] Москва: Наука. 358pp.
1967 — Лидийский язык [The Lydian Language] Москва: Наука. 71pp.
1969 — Звуковые цепи в языках мира. [Sound-chains in the world’s languages] Москва: Наука. 187pp.
1970 — (with А. М. Кондратов) Когда молчат письмена. Загадки древней Эгеиды. [When the writings are silent. Mysteries of the ancient Aegean] Москва: Наука. 227pp.
2004 — Звуковые цепи в языках мира. [Sound-chains in the world’s languages] (2nd, rev. edition) Москва: USSR. 184pp.

Edited books

1986 — (with T.L. Markey) Typology, Relationship and Time. Ann Arbor: Karoma.
1989a — Reconstructing Languages and Cultures. (Abstracts and Materials from the First Interdisciplinary Symposium on Language and Prehistory, Ann Arbor, 8–12 November 1988). Bochum: Brockmeyer.
1989b — Explorations in Language Macrofamilies. (Materials from the First Interdisciplinary Symposium on Language and Prehistory). Bochum: Brockmeyer.
1990 — Proto-Languages and Proto-Cultures. (Materials from the First Interdisciplinary Symposium on Language and Prehistory). Bochum: Brockmeyer.
1991 — Dene-Sino-Caucasian Languages. (Materials from the First Interdisciplinary Symposium on Language and Prehistory). Bochum: Brockmeyer.
1992 — Nostratic, Dene-Caucasian, Austric and Amerind. (Materials from the First Interdisciplinary Symposium on Language and Prehistory). Bochum: Brockmeyer.
1999 — (with Paul Sidwell) Historical linguistics & lexicostatistics. Melbourne: Association for the History of Language.
2002a — (with Paul Sidwell) Languages and their Speakers in Ancient Eurasia. Dedicated to Professor Aharon Dolgopolsky on his 70th Birthday (AHL Studies in the Science and History of Language 5) Canberra: Association for the History of Language.
2002b — (with Paul Sidwell) Anatolian Languages. (AHL Studies in the Science and History of Language 6) Canberra: Association for the History of Language.
2007 — Vladimir Orel’s Russian Etymological Dictionary vols. 3–4. Theophania Publishing.
2009 — (with Harald U. Sverdrup) Bygone voices reconstructed. On language origins and their relationships. In honor of Aharon Dolgopolski. Copenhagen: Underskoven Publishers ApS.

Articles

1957 — К истории индоевропейского генетива. [On the history of the Indo-European genitive] Вопросы языкознания 6, № 6, 89–90.
1962a — Карийский вопрос [The Carian problem] Вопросы языкознания 11, № 5, 93–100.
1962b — О начальном этапе дешифровки буквенных письменностей. [On the initial stage of deciphering alphabetic scripts] In: Симпозиум по структурному изучению знаковых систем. Москва: Издательство Академии наук СССР, 57–61.
1963a — Linear A and Lycian. Nestor 66, 258–259.
1963b — Linear A and Karian. Nestor 67, 263–264.
1963c — How Herodotos’ father spelt his name. Nestor 70, 282–283.
1963d — Karer auf Kreta. Nestor 72, 293–295.
1963e — О хетто-лувийском характере карийского языка. [On the Hittite-Luwian character of the Carian Language] Вопросы языкознания 12, № 3, 83–84.
1963f — О структуре звуковых цепей. [On the structure of sound-chains] In: Проблемы структурной лингвистики. Отв. ред. С.К. Шаумян. Москва: Издательство Академии наук СССР, 164–181.
1964a — Новые исследования по хеттологии. [New investigations in Hittite studies] Вопросы языкознания 13, № 3, 124–133.
1964b — О новых результатах исследований карийских надписей. [On new findings in the study of Carian inscriptions] Вопросы языкознания 13, № 4, 108–111.
1964c — Статуэтка Исиды с египетско-карийской надписью. [Statue of Isis with Egyptian-Carian inscription] Вестник древней истории 1964, № 2, 128–134.
1964d — On Karian. Revue Hittite et Asianique XXII, 74, 1–55.
1964e — Aegyptisch-karische Inschrift am Sockel einer Isisstatuette (Leningrader Staatsermitage). Revue Hittite et Asianique XXII 74, 57–65 and pl. I–IV.
1964f — Zur karischen Schrift und Sprache. Kadmos 3, 72–87.
1964g — Карийский язык. Современное состояние дешифровки и изучения. [The Carian language. Current status of deciphering and study] In: Проблемы индоевропейского языкознания. Этюды по сравнительно-исторической грамматике индо-европейских языков, 18–39. Москва: Наука.3
1965a — О хетто-лидийском характере карийского языка. [On the Hittite character of the Carian language] Вестник Московского Гос. Университета. Филология-журналистика 1965, № 5, 46–57.
1965b — Опыт дешифровки карийских надписей. [An attempt at deciphering Carian inscriptions] Вестник древней истории 91, № 1, 31–50.
1965c — К происхождению малоазийских и некоторых других буквенных письменностей. [On the origin of Asia Minor and some other alphabetic scripts] Вестник древней истории 93, № 3, 132–138.
1965d — Малоазийские языковые параллели [Asia Minor linguistic parallels]. Этимология 1965, 142–159.
1965e — Этимологические заметки. [Etymological notes] Этимология 1965, 235–247.
1965f — Лувийские племена. [Luwian tribes] In: Советская историческая энциклопедия. В 16 томах. М.: Советская энциклопедия. 1973–1982. Том 8: КОШАЛА–МАЛЬТА. Издательство «Советская энциклопедия», 799.
1966a — Недешифрованные письменности Крита. [Undeciphered scripts of Crete] Вопросы истории 1966, № 12, 209–212.
1966b — К проблеме соотношения звуковых и фонемных цепей. [On the problem of the relationship between sound-chains and phonemic chains] Исследования по фонологии. Москва: Наука, 160–165.
1966c — (with Andrej Korolëv) Милийские этимологии [Milyan etymologies] In: Проблемы славянских этимологических исследований в связи с общей проблематикой современной этимологии. Москва: Наука, 42–44.
1967 — Этимологические заметки. [Etymological notes] Этимология 1965, 235–247.
1968a — Тайны письмен Крита. [Secrets of writings from Crete] In: Будущее науки: Междунар. ежегодник 2: Перспективы, гипотезы, нерешенные проблемы. Москва: Знание, 305–318.
1968b — К проблеме ликийского языка. [On the problem of the Lycian language] Вопросы языкознания 1968, № 6, 66–80.
1968c — Zur hethitisch-luwischen Lexik. Orbis 17/2, 467–491.
1968d — Zur Entstehung und Entwicklung der kleinasiatischen Buchstabenschriften. Kadmos 7, 150–173.
1968e — Karisch und Lykisch. In: Atti e Memorie del I Congresso Internazionale di Micenologia (1967). Roma: Edizioni dell’Ateneo, 462–472.
1968f — Karisch, Lydisch, Lykisch. Klio 50, 53–69.
1969a — Zu den ‘späthethitischen’ Sprachen. XVII. Deutscher Orientalistentag – 1968, Würzburg, ed. by Wolfgang Voigt (= ZDMG Suppl. I) Wiesbaden: Steiner, 250–271.
1969b — Zur Erforschung der kleinasiatischen Onomastik. In: Disputationes ad montium vocabula aliorumque nominum significationes pertinentes. 10. Internationaler Kongress für Namenforschung II, ed. by Herwig H. Hornung. Wien: Verlag der Wiener Medizinischen Akademien, 341–350.
1969c — (with Andrej Korolëv) Lykische Wörter und Namen. Archiv orientální 37, 523–542.
1970 — К сравнительно-исторической характеристике хетто-лувийских языков. [On the comparative-historical characteristics of the Hittite-Luwian languages] In: Кузнецовские чтения. Тезисы докладов конференции по фонологии и морфонологии, ред. А. А. Реформатский. Москва: Ин-т языкознания АН СССР, 54–55.
1971a — О двух [в] в русском языке. [About two /v/ sounds in the Russian language] In: Развитие фонетики современного русского языка: Фонологические подсистемы, ред. Высотский С.С. Москва: Наука.
1971b — Zur Erforschung des Milyischen. Mitteilungen des Instituts für Orientforschung 17, 206–236.
1972a — К происхождению и взаимовлиянию алфавитов Балканского полуострова, островов Эгейского моря и Малой Азии. [On the origin and mutual influence of the alphabets of the Balkan Peninsula, the Aegean Islands and Asia Minor] In: I. симпозиум по балканскому языкознанию. Античная балканистика (23–24 мая 1972 года). Предварительные материалы: Тезисы докладов. Сообщения. Аннотации. Москва: Институт славяноведения и балканистики АН СССР, 39–41.
1972b — (with Galina A. Barinova) Регулярные и нерегулярные сочетания согласных в русском языке. [Regular and irregular consonant combinations in Russian] In: Проблемы структурной лингвистики 1971, ред. С. К. Шаумян. Москва: Наука, 334–341.
1973 — (with G.M. Bogomazov and R.F. Paufošima) О некоторых способах реализации консонантных сочетаний в речи. [On some ways of the realisation of consonant combinations in speech] In: Проблемы теоретической и прикладной фонетики и обучение произношению. Москва: Издательство УДН им. Патриса Лумумбы, 110–113.
1974a — Фригийская культура. [Phrygian culture] In: Советская историческая энциклопедия. В 16 томах. Москва: Советская энциклопедия. 1973–1982. Том 15: ФЕЛЛАХИ–ЧЖАЛАЙНОР, 426–427.
1974b — Фригийцы. [Phrygians] In: Советская историческая энциклопедия. В 16 томах. Москва: Советская энциклопедия. 1973–1982. Том 15: ФЕЛЛАХИ–ЧЖАЛАЙНОР, 427.
1974c — Фригия. [Phrygia] In: Советская историческая энциклопедия. В 16 томах. Москва: Советская энциклопедия. 1973–1982. Том 15: ФЕЛЛАХИ–ЧЖАЛАЙНОР, 427–428.
1975 — Zur sidetischen Schrift. Kadmos 14, 154–166.
1976a — Надпись на диске из Феста. [The inscription on the Phaistos Disk] In: Тайны древних письмен: проблемы дешифровки (перевод с английского, немецкого, французского и итальянского языка сост., ред., предисл. И. М. Дьяконов). Москва: Прогресс, 31. {Under the name А.Ф. Деяанов}
1976b — Линейное письмо A; Комментарий. [Linear A script; Commentary.] In: Тайны древних письмен: проблемы дешифровки (перевод с английского, немецкого, французского и итальянского языка сост., ред., предисл. И. М. Дьяконов). Москва: Прогресс, 83–84; 99–100. {Under the name А.Ф. Деяанов}
1976c — Паракарийская письменность; Комментарий. [The Para-Carian script; Commentary.] In: Тайны древних письмен: проблемы дешифровки (перевод с английского, немецкого, французского и итальянского языка сост., ред., предисл. И. М. Дьяконов). Москва: Прогресс, 304–308; 316–317. {Under the name А.Ф. Деяанов}
1976d — О ‘паралидийском’ письме; Комментарий. [On the Para-Lydian script; Commentary.] In: Тайны древних письмен: проблемы дешифровки (перевод с английского, немецкого, французского и итальянского языка сост., ред., предисл. И. М. Дьяконов). Москва: Прогресс, 318–319; 326–327. {Under the name А.Ф. Деяанов}
1976e — Сидетское письмо; Комментарий. [The Sidetic script; Commentary.] In: Тайны древних письмен: проблемы дешифровки (перевод с английского, немецкого, французского и итальянского языка сост., ред., предисл. И. М. Дьяконов). Москва: Прогресс, 328–330; 333–334. {Under the name А.Ф. Деяанов}
1977a — Zu einigen karischen Wörtern. Münchener Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft 35, 117–130.
1977b — Zu einigen Verwandtschaftsbeziehungen im Lykischen und Milyischen. Münchener Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft 36, 131–144.
1978a — Studies in Hittite-Luwian Names. Names: A Journal of Onomastics 26.3, 231–257.
1978b — Sull’ interpretazione delle righe 20-21 della trilingue di Xanthos. Incontri Linguistici 4, 238-239.
1979 — On the Hittite-Luwian numerals. Journal of Indo-European Studies 7, 177–198.
1981 — On Hittite-Luwian and Indo-European etymologies. In: Bono homini donum. Essays in Historical Linguistics in Memory of J. Alexander Kerns, ed. by Yoël L. Arbeitman and Allan R. Bomhard. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 259–261.
1982a — Zu den hethitisch-luwischen Konsonanten. In: Investigationes philologicae et comparativae. Gedenkschrift für Heinz Kronasser, ed. by Erich Neu. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 210–214.
1982b — Research Report: Penutian labial stop correspondences. California-Oregon Languages Newsletter (I) 5(2), 5–6.
1982–83 — Über den Lautwert des karischen Buchstaben θ. Incontri Linguistici 8, 71–78.
1984[86] — Verbesserte Lesungen von karischen Wörtern. Incontri Linguistici 9, 199–200.
1985 — (with Mark Kaiser) On Indo-European laryngeals and vowels. Journal of Indo-European Studies 13/3–4: 377–413.
1986 — (with Mark Kaiser) Inheritance vs. borrowing in Indo-European, Kartvelian, and Semitic. Journal of Indo-European Studies 14, 365–378.
1987a — Indo-European Homeland and Migrations. Folia Linguistica Historica 7.2, 227–250.
1987b — (with Mark Kaiser) On Recent Comparisons Between Language Families: The Case of Indo-European and Afroasiatic. General Linguistics 27.1, 34–46.
1988a — Carian proper names. Onomata 12, 497–505.
1988b — Indo-European consonants in Anatolian. In: A Linguistic Happening in Memory of Ben Schwartz, Studies in Anatolian, Italic and other Indo-European Languages, ed. by Yoël L. Arbeitman. (Bibliothèque des cahiers de l’institut de linguistique de Louvain 42) Louvain-La-Neuve: Peeters, 283–303.
1988c — (with Mark Kaiser) Nostratic. Annual Review of Anthropology 17, 309–329.
1988d — (with Galina Barinova) Some observations on the role of ослышки in linguistic research. Russkij jazyk / Russian Language Journal 42, № 141–143, 35–39.
1988e — On laryngeals. In: Die Laryngaltheorie und die Rekonstruktion des indogermanischen Laut- und Formensystems, ed. by Alfred Bammesberger. Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, 527–546.
1989a — Methods in interphyletic comparisons. Ural-Altaische Jahrbücher 61, 1–26.
1989b — (with Mark Kaiser) Nostratic. Anthropology Today 5, № 6 (Dec., 1989), 22–23.
1990a — Uralic vocalism and long-range comparison. Uralo-Indogermanica 2, 85–94.
1990b — The Mother Tongue: How linguists have reconstructed the ancestor of all living languages. The Sciences 30.3, 20–27.
1990c — Introduction. In: Proto-Languages and Proto-Cultures. (Materials from the First Interdisciplinary Symposium on Language and Prehistory), ed. by Vitaly Shevoroshkin. Bochum: Brockmeyer, 8–12.
1991a — Лингвистический анализ новых карийских надписей (Находки 1985 г.) [Linguistic analysis of new Carian inscriptions (Findings from 1985)] Вопросы языкознания 1991, № 3, 66–75.
1991b — On Carian Language and Writing. Perspectives on Indo-European Language Culture and Religion. Studies in Honor of Edgard C. Polomé. vol. I (= JIES Monograph 7), 116–135.
1991c — (with A. Manaster Ramer) Some recent work on the remote relations of languages. In: Sprung from Some Common Source: Investigations into the Prehistory of Languages, ed. by S.M. Lamb & E. D. Mitchell. Stanford, Cal.: Stanford University Press, 178–199.
1991d — Introduction. In: Dene-Sino-Caucasian Languages. (Materials from the First Interdisciplinary Symposium on Language and Prehistory), ed. by Vitaly Shevoroshkin. Bochum: Brockmeyer, 6–9.
1992a — On Carian language and writing. Newsletter for Anatolian Studies Vol. 8/1, 3.
1992b — A symposium on the deep reconstruction of languages and cultures. In: Reconstructing Languages and Cultures. (Abstracts and Materials from the First Interdisciplinary Symposium on Language and Prehistory, Ann Arbor, 8–12 November 1988), ed. by Vitaly Shevoroshkin. Bochum: Brockmeyer, 6–8.
1992c — Introduction. In: Proto-Languages and Proto-Cultures. (Materials from the First Interdisciplinary Symposium on Language and Prehistory), ed. by Vitaly Shevoroshkin. Bochum: Brockmeyer, 7–8.
1993 — Lykisch und andere spätanatolische Sprachen. In: Akten des II. Internationalen Lykien-Symposions; Wien, 6-12. Mai 1990, ed. by Jürgen Borchhardt and Gerhard Dobesch. (Ergänzungsbände zu den Tituli Asiae Minoris, 17) Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 39–52.
1994a — Carian – three decades later. Decifrazione del cario. Atti del “Primo Simposio internazionale sulla Decifrazione del Cario”, Roma 1993, ed. by M. Giannotta et al. Roma: Consiglio Nazionale Ricerche, 131–166.
1994b — Deep reconstruction of languages and semantics. Origins of Semiosis: Sign Evolution in Nature and Culture, ed. by Winfried Nöth. Berlin, New York: De Gruyter Mouton, 293–308.
1998a — Анатолийские и славянские схождения в индоевропейском лексическом фонде. [Anatolian and Slavic similarities in the Indo-European lexical fund.] In: Язык: изменчивость и постоянство. К 70-летию Л. Л. Касаткина, ред. М. Л. Каленчук. Москва: Институт русского языка РАН.
1998b — 1998 Symposium on Nostratic at Cambridge. Mother Tongue 31, 28–32.
1999a — Nostratic languages: internal and external relationship. In: Nostratic: Examining a Linguistic Macrofamily, ed. by Colin Renfrew and Daniel Nettle. Cambridge: The McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 75–91.
1999b — Nostratic and Sino-Caucasian: two ancient language phyla. In: From Neanderthal to Easter Island (Festschrift W. W. Schuhmacher), ed. by N. A. Kirk & P. J. Sidwell. Melbourne: Association for the History of Language, 44–74.
2000a — Notes on Lycian and Milyan. In: The Asia Minor Connexion. Studies on the Pre-Greek Languages in Memory of Charles Carter, ed. by Yoël L. Arbeitman. (Orbis Supplementa 13). Leuven: Peeters, 205–211.
2000b — Symmetric construction in Milyan inscriptions. In: Слово в тексте и в словаре. Сборник статей к семидесятилетию академика Ю. Д. Апресяна. Москва: Языки русской культуры, 324–344.
2002a — Milyan passages with neu and ni(-ke). In: Anatolian Languages, ed. by Vitaly Shevoroshkin and Paul Sidwell. (AHL Studies in the Science and History of Language 6) Canberra: Association for the History of Language, 210–232.
2002b — Word combinations in Milyan and Lycian inscriptions. In: Studia Linguarum 3/1-2. De omnibus linguae rebus scibilibus et quibusdam aliis. Memoriae A.A. Korolëv dicata, ed. by A. S. Kassian and A. V. Sidel’tsev. (= Studia linguarum 3) Moscow: Languages of Slavonic Culture, 117–189.
2002c — Gods and priests in Milyan and Lycian inscriptions. In: The Linguist’s Linguist: A Collection of Papers in Honour of Alexis Manaster Ramer, ed. by Fabrice Cavoto. München: LINCOM, 405–420.
2003 — Salishan and North Caucasian. Mother Tongue 8, 39–64.
2004a — Proto-Salishan and Proto-North-Caucasian consonants: A few cognate sets. In Nostratic Centennial Conference: the Pécs Papers, ed. by Irén Hegedűs and Paul Sidwell. Pécs: Lingua Franca Group, 181–191.
2004b — Topics in Milyan. In: Per Aspera ad Asteriscos. Studia indogermanica in honorem Jens Elmegard Rasmussen sexagenarii indibus martiis anno MMIV, ed. by Adam Hyllested et al. (Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft 112) Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachen und Literaturen, 513–526.
2008a — Introduction to Milyan. Mother Tongue 13, 63–96.
2008b — On the Origin of Salish, Wakashan, and North Caucasian Languages. International Journal of Modern Anthropology 1, 84–121.
2009 — On basic words in Salish, Wakashan and Lezghian. Bygone voices reconstructed. On language origins and their relationships. In honor of Aharon Dolgopolski, ed. by V. V. Shevoroshkin and Harald U. Sverdrup. Copenhagen: Underskoven Publishers ApS, 237–241.
2010 — Four notes on Milyan. In Исследования по лингвистике и семиотике. Сборник статей к юбилею Вяч. Вс. Иванова. Москва: ЯСК, 156–167.
2011a — Misadventures of Zeus in the Lycian Kingdom 2500 Years Ago. Aramazd 6:1, 24–42.
2011b — Why are the nymphs grieving in Xanthos. Aramazd 6:2, 141–156.
2011c — К пониманию милийских текстов. [On understanding Milyan texts.] Слово и язык. Сборник статей к восьмидесятилетию академика Ю. Д. Апресяна. Москва: ЯСК, 588–619.
2011d — On the origin of Milyan nouns. Mother Tongue 16, 63–101.
2012a — Хиазмы и сходные структуры в милийских текстах. [Chiasmuses and similar structures in Milyan texts] Армянский гуманитарный вестник 4, 98–120.
2012b — Anatolian laryngeals in Milyan. In: The Sound of Indo-European: Phonetics, Phonemics, and Morphophonemics, ed. by Benedicte Nielsen Whitehead. Museum Tusculanum Press, 456–483.
2013a — Salishan and North-Caucasian. Global Journal of Human Social Science Research 13, No 10-G.
2013b — Милийский язык. [The Milyan language] In: Языки мира: Реликтовые индоевропейские языки Передней и Центральной Азии. Ред. колл.: Ю.Б. Коряков, А.А. Кибрик. Москва: Институт языкознания РАН, 154–165.
2013c — On the origin of Milyan verbs. Mother Tongue 18, 189–210.
2014 — Milyan trija. Aramazd 8.1-2, 229–261.
2015a — Milyan accusative constructions lijeiz lupeliz and pleliz lijaiz. Historische Sprachwissenschaft 128, 193–204.
2015b — Notes on Anatolian languages. Mother Tongue 20, 113–148.

Reviews

Shevoroshkin regularly published reviews in Russian journals, such as Вопросы языкознания [Questions of Linguistics] and Вестник древней истории [Herald of Ancient History], as well as abroad. These reviews covered books on general linguistics, Anatolian languages, onomastics, and writing systems. Here is just a sample of his numerous reviews:
1962 — Martinet, A.: Elements de linguistique generale. Вопросы языкознания 11–12, № 6, 131–135.
1964 — Palmer, L.R.: Mycenaeans and Minoans. Aegean Prehistory in the Light of the Linear B Tablets. L., 1961; & Heubeck, A.: Praegraeca. Sprachliche Untersuchungen zum vorgriechisch-indogermanischen Substrat. Erlangen, 1961. Вестник древней истории 1964, № 2, 192–194.
1965 — Gusmani, R.: Lydisches Wörterbuch. Вопросы языкознания 1965, №2, 111–116.
1966a — Zgusta, L.: Kleinasiatische Personennamen, Prag, 1964. Вестник древней истории 1966, № 2, 235.
1966b — Zgusta, L.: Anatolische Personennamensippen, Teil I. Texte. Teil II. Beilagen, Prag, 1964. Вестник древней истории 1966, № 2, 235–237.
1969 — Гиндин, Л. А.: Язык древнейшего населения юга Балканского полуострова (Фрагмент индоевропейской ономастики) . Вестник древней истории 1969, № 4, 146–152.
1971 — Jensen, Hans: Die Schrift in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart, B., 1969. Вестник древней истории 1971, № 2, 136–138.
1972a — (with G.M. Kallerman) Об изучении палайских текстов (O. Carruba: Das Palaische. Texte, Grammatik, Lexikon. Wiesbaden, 1970). Вестник древней истории 1972 № 3, 195–203.
1972b — (with Z. Shalyapina) Venezky, R. L.: The structure of English orthography (The Hague–Paris: Mouton 1972). Linguistics 84, 89–100.
1972c — Jensen, H.: Sign, symbol and script: An account of man’s efforts to write (London, Allen & Unwin 1970). Linguistics 92, 110–114.