Category: Research

Workshop on European Philology

It was an inspiring day at the European Studies and European Philology Workshop of the CEMES network “Thinking the European Republic of Letters”, bringing together researchers from the universities of Copenhagen, Lund, and Malmö. Many thanks to the organizers. Link to the event. It was a pleasure to […]

Defense of PhD thesis on Tsova-Tush, Frankfurt U

It was a priviledge to be a member of the defense committee: Congratulations to Jesse Wichers Schreur on defending his very interesting PhD thesis on Tsova-Tush — Intense language contact in Eastern Georgia: The case of Tsova-Tush at the Institute for Empirical Linguistics at Goethe University, Frankfurt am […]

Meeting at State Language Department

Meeting at the State Language Department of Georgia on October 20 with Director Giorgi Alibegashvili and Tinatin Bolkvadze, Professor at Tbilisi State University and affiliated to the Department . We had an interesting discussion on the language situation and the state and minority languages of Georgia and the […]

Awarded the Rettig Prize by the Royal Academy

Very honoured and proud to have been awarded the Rettig Prize (Rettigska priset) 2022 by Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities for my contributions to Caucasus Studies! დიდი პატივია და საამაყოა შვედური სამეფო აკადემიისაგან ჰუმანიტარული, ისტორიული და ანტიკური მეცნიერების დარგში “Rettig Prize” 2022 პრიზის მიღება ჩემი […]

Complementation in Kabardian – now online

The monograph Дополнительные конструкции в кабардинском языке – Complementation in Kabardian – is now available online in full version. It was published (in Russian) already in 1998 at Lund University, coauthored with Prof. Mukhadin Kumakhov at the Institute of Linguistics in Moscow. Abstract The monograph is a study […]

Festschrift: Language and Society in the Caucasus

What an unforgettable surprise at our zoom seminar on May 25 – to be presented with a festschrift! Feeling so honored and thankful to my dear colleagues who initiated this and contributed to this exciting book (Read Festschrift: Language and Society in the Caucasus) (Universus Academic Press). My […]