Maia Lomia, Ramaz Kurdadze, Nino Chumburidze, Ketevan Margiani
Maia Lomia (Ph.D.) Associate Professor Scientific-Research Institute of the Georgian Language at the Faculty of Humanities at Tbilisi State University (TSU). Maia Lomia published 1 monograph separately (The Issue of Hypotaxis in Megrelian Language, 235 pages, Publishing House 'Universali', Tbilisi, 2005) and 3 monographs together with the co-authors (Linguistic Analysis of the Megrelian language, 698 pages, Publishing House 'Meridiani', Tbilisi, 2010; Interlinear Morphemic Glossing (Morphological Analysis of Megrelian Texts), Part I, 168 pages, ILIA STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS, Tbilisi, 2012; Phonosemantic Vocabulary in Kartvelian Languages, 498 pages, Publishing House 'Inovacia', Tbilisi, 2015). Major research interests: Typology of the Kartvelian languages; lexicology; computational linguistics.Ramaz Kurdadze (Ph.D.) Professor Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (TSU). Ramaz Kurdadze was born in 1961. He graduated from the Faculty of History and Philology of Gori State Pedagogical Institute (1983) as well as Post-graduate courses of TSU (1986). Ramaz Kurdadze defended the candidate dissertation entitled “Kartlian Dialect of Liakhvi and Proni Gorge of the Georgian Language” (1987) and PhD dissertation entitled “Vowel Alternating Verbs in Modern Georgian Language” (1999). R. Kurdadze published 3 monographs, around 100 scholarly works and 2 monographs together with the co-authors. Major research interests: Georgian verb; Georgian dialectology; the issues of teaching Georgian as a second language, Georgian slang.
Nino Tchumburidze (Ph.D.) Senior scientific collaborator Arnold Chikobava Institute of Linguistic Nino Tchumburidze was born in 1959. She graduated from the Faculty of Philology at Tbilisi State University (1981). Nino Tchumburidze defended candidate dissertation entitled “The Affixes Denoting Possession and Absence in the Georgian Language” (1995). She published 2 monographs together with the co-authors and around 50 scholarly works. Major research interests: Georgian word-building; Georgian dialectology; the issues of Georgian as a first language.
Ketevan Margiani (Ph.D.) Associate Professor Scientific-Research Institute of the Georgian Language at the Faculty of Humanities at Tbilisi State University (TSU). K. Margiani published 2 monographs: “Category of Evidentiality in Svan Language”, 316 pages, Publishing House 'Global Print+', Tbilisi, 2012 and “Morhosyntactic Analysis of Upper Svan Dialects Some Aspects” (Based on the speech on the Enguri and Kodori Gorges), 252 pages, Publishing House “Mtsignobari“, Tbilisi, 2008-2009. Major research interests: Typology of the Kartvelian languages; lexicology; general linguistics.