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ილიას სახელმწიფო უნივერსიტეტი

Differential Subject Marking in Georgian Language

დოქტორანტის სახელი და გვარი: სვეტლანა ბერიკაშვილი

ფაკულტეტი: ხელმძღვანელი ილიაუნი: ნინო დობორჯგინიძე, ირინა ლობჟანიძე

ხელმძღვანელი გოტინგენი: ჰეძერ ჰუგო ზაილსტრა, ანკე ჰოლერი

Differential Subject Marking in Georgian Language

The aim of the project is to analyse differential subject marking (DSM) in Georgian Language, thus providing one more specific case study on DSM. Although much is known about DSM variations cross-linguistically, relatively little attempt has been made to study that issue in Georgian linguistics. In many languages DSM may take many forms and it does not constitute a unified phenomenon. Georgian DSM is triggered by formal: transitivity, aspect and tense, and semantic features: factors relating to animacy/person scale and volitionality. DSM is analysed within the syntactic approach in the framework of the generative grammar (GG), Minimalist Program (MP). The main research questions addressed in the project are: (a) What factors trigger DSM in Georgian? (b) How is differential marking on NPs, i.e. case, related to differential marking on Vs, i.e. agreement? (3) How Georgian DSM fits in the picture of the two possible implementations of Case Theory, namely Inherent Case Theory (ICT) and Dependent Case Theory (DCT)? The research is based on the material elicited from different corpora of Georgian language: (1) the Georgian National Corpus, Modern Georgian, designed and coordinated by J. Gippert, M. Tandashvili and P. Meurer available at http://gnc.gov.ge/gnc/page; (2) new and Modern Georgian corpus data, designed and coordinated by N. Doborjginidze and I. Lobzhanidze, available at http://corpora.iliauni.edu.ge/; and (3) additional original corpus that has been created for obtaining additional empirical evidence about DSM features in Georgian and testing the hypothesis.

სამეცნიერო სტატიები:

  • Svetlana Berikashvili (2022). Contact-Induced Change in the Domain of Grammatical Gender in Pontic Greek spoken in Georgia. Languages 7(2):79
  • Berikashvili, Svetlana, and Irina Lobzhanidze. “Merged Functionality of Absolutive and Nominative in Georgian.” Issues in Kartvelian Studies (2022): 121
  • Svetlana Berikashvili (2021). Does Ergative Case Assigning depend on Transitivity Condition in Georgian? Kadmos, Volume 11, 6-54

სამეცნიერო კონფერენციები:

  • Leeds International Medieval Congress
    Leeds, UK  2019 July
  • Societas Linguistica Europeae – 52nd Annual Meeting
    Leipzig, Germany   2019 August