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General Info
Structural and Applied Linguistics. Faculty of Applied Mathematics and Computer Sciences
Tbilisi Javakhishvili State University
Type of Organisation: public
Number of Employees: Less than 10
Activities developed: Research, Education.
The department is an educational and research institution the
Head of Dptm. being T.V. Gamkrelidze. Research projects have been
based on the principles of post-Saususurean linguistics. Phonological
theories, morphological taxonomy, Chomskian grammar, V. Ingve's
hypothesis of diachronic transformations, general problems of semantics,
stylistics, typology etc. have been studied during some 30 years of
our existence. Students are besides taught structural analysis of
North Caucasion languages, Old and New Georgian.
To outstanding achievements belong the publishing of T. Gamkrelidze,
V. Ivanov's "Indo-European and the Indo-Europians" by Mouton De Gruyter
in 1995. (In the series Trends in Linguistics Studies in Monographs 80)
The research projects of the department concern studies of various
theoretical problems of linguistics; besides a course of theoretical
linguistics - Phonology, Descriptive Linguistics, Generative Grammars,
Typology and Historical Linguistics - is being prepared for publishing
(in Georgian).
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