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 […]
This year has been a year when I have looked back in time. In two publications I have returned to Georgia in 1988 and the last Soviet years. Together with Märta-Lisa Magnusson and other colleagues we published the anthology “Vi såg sammanbrottet” (We witnessed the break-up – Six […]
Thank you to the Circassian Cultural Centre for organizing this unique forum for specialists in Caucasian Studies, with a special focus on Circassian topics. Director Prof. Merab Chukhua together with researchers Larisa Tuptsokova, Mariam Bezhitashvili and other co-workers at the CCC achieved an impressing event, that took place […]
“We witnessed the break-up.” – Six Swedish and Danish researchers on the final years of the USSR seen from the Caucasus The new book is edited by Märta-Lisa Magnusson and myself, and is published in the series Caucasus Studies, Malmö University, 2021. We are a multidisciplinary group of […]
It was fun to make a new “Saturday quiz” for the daily newspaper Sydsvenskan. The topic of the quiz this time was the Soviet Union, and more specifically, the fall of the Soviet Union, now 30 years ago. I wrote the quiz together with my colleague Prof. Bo […]
It was a great pleasure to participate in the recent VI International Symposium of Linguist-Caucasologists (Nov 9-11) in Tbilisi together with colleagues from Georgia, the North Caucasus, Moscow and other centres with a paper on sentence-like proper names in Georgian (Собственные имена, равные предложению в грузинском языке). A […]
It was fun to contribute with a quiz on linguistic diversity in the world and in the Greater Malmö area for the daily newspaper Sydsvenskan (2021-10-09). The database Ethnologue is an excellent source for general data on the topic. Data on the linguistic diversity of Malmö is harder […]
It’s a milestone that our online Georgian course has been running for 20 years! We started at Lund University in 2001 and a couple of years later the course moved to Malmö University. It has been amazing to see all the Swedish and international students following the course. […]
Working with co-editor Dr. Märta-Lisa Magnusson on our book project based on fieldwork in the Caucasus in the years shortly before and following the collapse of the Soviet Union. This year 30 years have passed since the South Caucasian republics became independent states! Swedish and Danish researchers contributing […]
It was interesting to give the guest lecture The Russian language in South Caucasus with special focus on Georgia on June 23, 2021 to MA students and staff at the Slavic Department of the University of Cologne. Thank you for the invitation to participate in this lecture series […]
Karina Vamling
Professor in Caucasus Studies, Malmö University, Sweden
PhD General Linguistics, Lund University, Sweden
Co-Director and Co-Founder of the research platform Russia and the Caucasus Regional Research (RUCARR), Faculty of Culture and Socidety, Malmö University
Head of Section for Caucasus Studies, Faculty of Culture and Society, Malmö University
Karina Vamling 
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