Michael Daniel (Russian: Михаил Aлександрович Даниэль; born 13 September 1972) is a linguist from Russia specializing in linguistic typology and the study of languages of Dagestan (Russia).
Daniel received his Candidate degree from the Russian State University for the Humanities in Moscow in 2001.
[2] Since 2022, he has been a research fellow at the Collegium de Lyon [fr].
[3] Daniel's contributions are primarily in the areas of linguistic typology and the study of the languages of Dagestan.
In the area of grammar, his contributions concern primarily the worldwide typology of grammatical number (e.g. Daniel & Moravcsik 2005; Acquaviva & Daniel 2022), the typology of personal pronouns (e.g. Daniel 2005), and the typology of case (e.g. Daniel & Ganenkov 2009).