I have much enjoyed being part of the team of supervisors of Filip Larsson’s highly interesting and creative PhD thesis “Nominal and Verbal Affixation in the Caucasus” in General Linguistics, Lund University. Opponent was Prof. Diana Forker, Friedrich Schiller University Jena. And what a party in the evening…. Georgian on my mind – in new version.

Abstract
This thesis aims to investigate the interaction between complex morphology and complex phonology in the languages of the Caucasus. The Caucasus is well-known for containing languages with exceptionally large case systems and complex polysynthetic verbal morphology, which is paired with some of the largest consonant inventories in the world outside Africa. The study focuses specifically on nominal and verbal affixation, the morphological process of adding bound morphemes to lexical stems, as the languages of the Caucasus present some of the most intricate affixation patterns in the world. […] Full text

Examination board: Prof. Jost Gippert, Universität Hamburg, Prof. Henrik Liljegren, Stockholm University, Assoc. Prof. Shinichiro Ishihara, Lund University