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Research Interests

Syntax:

Anaphors in subject function; Anaphors and agreement; Person restrictions in the languages of the world; Case alignment in Georgian and other Kartvelian (/South Caucasian) languages. 

Morphology:

Complex agreement systems; Agreement marking in Georgian and other Kartvelian (/South Caucasian) languages; Originally nominal affixation on finite verbs in Kartvelian (/South Caucasian) languages.  

Pragmatics:

Repair strategies in discourse; Filler items, placeholders. 

Language Change:

Body-part nouns as a source for reflexives; Contact-induced morphosyntactic change; Changing from synthetic into analytical; Lexical and morphosyntactic changes in modern spoken Georgian. 

Language Contact:

Georgian-Russian language contact; Contact-induced changes in Georgian under the influence of Russian; Georgian-English language contact; Accommodation of English loans in modern spoken Georgian.