Conferences

Conference Talks and Participation

• October 2023: Whether verbs are placeheld or placeholded in Georgian: An acceptability study. Poster presentation at The South Caucasian Chalk Circle-3 (SCCC-3). October 2-4, 2023, Tbilisi, Georgia (with Steven R. Foley).

• October 2023: Novel uses of plural marking in Georgian. Presentation at The South Caucasian Chalk Circle-3 (SCCC-3). October 2-4, 2023, Tbilisi, Georgia (with Zurab Baratashvili and Irakli Salia).

• September 2023: From meta- to object-level reading of the Georgian approximative suffix -savit . Presentation at the Fourteenth International Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation. September 18-22, 2023, Telavi, Georgia.

• March-April 2023. Whether verbs are placeheld or placeholded in Georgian: An acceptability study. Poster presentation at the workshop Locality in Theory, Processing, and Acquisition. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (PA), USA, March 31 and April 1, 2023 (with Steven R. Foley).

• August 2022. Identifying the immediate donor: Preverbs in loan verb accommodation in Megrelian and Svan. Presentation at the workshop The Typology of Contact-Induced Changes in Morphosyntax, affiliated with the 25th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL25), University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, August 1-5, 2022 (with Zurab Baratashvili, Giorgi Jgharkava and Medea Saghliani).

• June 2022. Special uses of plural in Georgian. Presentation at the conference Theoretical Linguistics and Languages of the Caucasus (TLLC), Istanbul Bilgi University, Istanbul, Turkey, June 18-19, 2022 (with Zurab Baratashvili and Irakli Salia).

• June 2022. Replicating a prosodic countour: A matter or a pattern borrowing? Presentation at the conference Theoretical Linguistics and Languages of the Caucasus (TLLC), Istanbul Bilgi University, Istanbul, Turkey, June 18-19, 2022.

• May 24, 2022. Some notes on Georgian placeholder verbs. Invited talk at the Atelier de Morphosyntaxe, Laboratoire DDL, l'Université Lumière Lyon 2, Lyon, France.

• March 2022. Verbs in approximation in Georgian. Presentation at the Workshop ApproxiMo: Approximation in Morphology. Discontinuous Workshop. Virtual (Teams). October 2021-May 2022.

• December 2021. In Londons and in New Yorks: Comparing Georgian pluralized toponym-based adverbials of place to associative plurals. Presentation at the 46. Österreichische Linguistiktagung. December 9-12, 2021, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.

• December 2021. Multiple exponence in Georgian placeholder verbs. Presentation at  the workshop Multiple Exponence @ ZAS, Berlin, December 1-3, 2021 (hosted online by the Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft). [Abstract]

• February 2021. Inheritance Meets Borrowing: Vocative Truncation in Tbilisi Georgian. Poster presentation at the Conference   Dynamics of Language Contact -- New Perspectives on Emerging Grammars, Variation and Change, Berlin, February 21st to 23rd, 2021 (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, virtual conference). [Poster]

• February 2020. Borrowing feminine marking in Middle vs. Modern Georgian. Poster presentation at the 19th International Morphology Meeting, Vienna University of Economics and Business, February 6-8, 2020, Vienna, Austria.

• December 2019: Grammaticalization of quotation enclitic into a modal particle: A case of the Georgian metki. Presentation at the 45. Österreichische Linguistiktagung. December 6-7 , 2019, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria (with Anna Chutkerashvili).

• December 2019: „New“ Vocative in Georgian. Presentation at the 45. Österreichische Linguistiktagung. December 6-7 , 2019, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria.

• September 2019: Towards a Georgian Controlled Language in Crisis Management. Presentation at the Thirteenth International Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation. September 16-20 , 2019, Tsikhisdziri (Kobuleti), Georgia (with Anna Chutkerashvili,Besik Dundua, Irina Temnikova).

• September 2019: Borrowing vocative truncation rule from Russian: Pattern borrowing in Georgian-Russian language contact. Presentation at the Thirteenth International Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation. September 16-20 , 2019, Tsikhisdziri (Kobuleti), Georgia.

• October 2018: Pattern borrowing in the Georgian-English language contact. Presentation at the 44. Österreichische Linguistiktagung 2018. October 26-28, 2018, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria (with Rusudan Asatiani and Zurab Baratashvili).

• September 2018: Compounds or Phrases? Pattern Borrowing from English into Georgian. Presentation at The South Caucasian Chalk Circle-2 (SCCC-2). September 12-14, 2018, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia (with Rusudan Asatiani and Zurab Baratashvili).

• August 2018: Pattern borrowing from English: Nominative-marked possessors in Modern Spoken Georgian. Presentation at the 51st Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea. August 29 - September 1st, 2018, Tallinn University, Estonia (with Rusudan Asatiani and Zurab Baratashvili).

• July 2018: Anti-Unification and Natural Language Processing. Presentation at the 5th Workshop on Natural Language and Computer Science (NLCS'18), affiliated with the Federated Logic Conference (FLoC) 2018. July 7, 2018, Oxford University, Oxford, UK (with Temur Kutsia).

• December 2017: Accommodating Loan Verbs in Georgian. Presentation at the 43. Österreichische Linguistiktagung 2017. December 8-10, 2017, University of Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt, Austria (with Rusudan Asatiani and Zurab Baratashvili).

• September 2017: Loan verb typology and Georgian-English language contact. Presentation at the Twelfth International Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation. September 18-22, 2017, Lagodekhi, Georgia (with Rusudan Asatiani and Zurab Baratashvili).

• September 2016: Georgian preverb da- in English loans. Presentation at the workshop The South Caucasian Chalk Circle (SCCC): Philology meets Linguistics. September 22-24, 2016, Paris: University of Chicago Center.

• August 2016: On Gender-Copy in Georgian. Presentation at the workshop Language contact in the territory of the former Soviet Union. The 49th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE2016). 31 August, 2016, Naples, Italy.

• July 2015: Preverb as an accommodation strategy for English loans in Georgian. Presentation at the panel Linguistic and pragmatic outcomes of contact with English as foreign language. The 14th International Pragmatics Conference. July 26-31, 2015, Antwerp, Belgium.

• July 2015: Word Search Sequences in Scientific Discussions: Giving Talks in Georgian. Presentation at the 14th International Pragmatics Conference. July 26-31, 2015, Antwerp, Belgium (with Temur Kutsia).
  
  

• June 9, 2011. Georgian-Russian Language Contact. Presentation at the Information Center for South Caucasus and Central Asia of the Austrian Oriental Society Hammer-Purgstall, Vienna, Austria.
  
  

• December 5, 2009. A Case Study of Insertions in Contemporary Georgian (with Manana Topadze). Presentation at the workshop "Languages of the Caucasus -- Sprachen des Kaukasus". A related event of the 37. Österreichische Linguistiktagung, organized by the Department of Linguistics of the University of Salzburg, Austria.
  Abstract in English: pdf.

• December 7, 2008. Case and postposition marking on Verbs. Georgian and Laz verbal affixation. Presentation at the 36. Österreichische Linguistiktagung, organized by the Institute for Linguistics of the University of Vienna, Austria.
  Abstract in English: pdf.

• November 28, 2008. On the Use of the Root q'ru- "deaf". Analyzing Old, Middle and Modern Georgian Literary Texts (with Natia Amiridze). Presentation at the Conference on Caucasus Studies 2008, Malmoe University, Sweden.
  Abstract in English: pdf.

• October 4, 2008. Recommendations on Development and Implementation of Accreditation Standard 1 – Mission for Schools for Children with Hearing Difficulties (with Maka Kordzadze, Nino Bokeria, Nino Inauri, Natia Amiridze of the Georgian National Education Accreditation Center (NEAC)). Presentation at the First Annual International Conference "Current Challenges in Knowledge Management – 'Knowledge for Life'". Gori University, Gori, Georgia.
  Abstract: pdf,
  Slides: ppt.

• October 3, 2008. Forgetting Russian, Not Yet Mastering English. A Case Study of Borrowings in Contemporary Urban Georgian (with Manana Topadze). Alternative talk at the Workshop on Language Change in Bilingual Communities. Focus on the Post-Soviet Countries and their Immigrant Communities Elsewhere, a related event of The 23rd Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics. Uppsala, Sweden.
  Abstract: pdf.

• February 2008. Loss of Morphological Complexity under Language Contact. The Case of Georgian. Presentation at the Workshop on Morphological Variation and Change in Languages of the Caucasus, a related event of The 13th International Morphology Meeting. Vienna, Austria.
  Abstract: pdf.

• July 2007. Filler Verbs in Modern Georgian. Presentation at the Panel on Fillers in Grammar and Discourse, a related event of The 10th International Pragmatics Conference. Gothenburg, Sweden.
  Abstract: pdf.

• December 2006. Originally Nominal Affixation on Finite Verb Forms in Modern Georgian and Laz. Presentation at the International Workshop Morphosyntax of Caucasian Languages (with emphasis on areal typology). INALCO and Collège de France. Paris, France.
  Abstract: pdf.

• December 2005. The Sociolinguistics of Borrowing: Georgian moxdoma and Russian proizojti "happen" (with Olga Gurevich). Presentation at the section "Reproduction/Continuity and Innovation in Language and Communication in different Language Cultures" of the international conference "Innovations and Reproductions in Cultures and Societies". Vienna, Austria.
  Abstract: pdf.

• September-October 2005. Loss of Morphological Complexity in Georgian: The Case of moxdoma “happen” / moxdena “make happen” (with Olga Gurevich). Presentation at the Panel on the Current Issues in Linguistic Work on the Caucasus, Central Eurasian Studies Society Sixth Annual Conference. Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts.
  Abstract: html.

• August 2005. Co-reference by Association. Georgian Reflexives in Subject Function in Special Contexts. Presentation at the Workshop on Binding Theory and Invariants in Anaphoric Relations (hosted by HPSG'2005). University of Lisbon, Portugal.
  Slides: pdf.

• June 2005. Mismatches between Form and Meaning. Reanalyzing Wish and Blessing Formulae in Georgian. Presentation at the Conference “Language, History, and Cultural Identities in the Caucasus”, Malmoe University, Sweden.
  Abstract in English: ps, pdf.
  Abstract in Georgian: ps, pdf.

• February 2004. Verb Forms inside Verb Forms. Case of the Modern Spoken Georgian Pro-Verbs. Poster presentation at 11th International Morphology Meeting, Vienna, Austria.
  Poster: ps, pdf.

• November 2002. On Georgian Reciprocals and Their Subject Uses. Presentation at The Workshop on Reciprocals, UiL OTS, Utrecht University, The Netherlands.
  Handout: ps, pdf.

• May 2002. On the Aspect of Reading of Georgian Anaphors in Subject Position. Presentation at The Possessives Workshop, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA.
  Poster: ps, pdf, rtf.

• October 2001. The Anaphor Agreement Effect and Georgian Anaphors. Presentation at The Paris Syntax and Semantics Conference (CSSP), Paris, France.
  Handout: ps, pdf, rtf.

• August 2000. On Subject Anaphora in Georgian (with Martin Everaert). Presentation at the Tenth Caucasian Colloquium, University of Munich, Germany.
  Abstract: ps, pdf, rtf.

• September 1997. Participation in the 2nd Tbilisi Symposium on Language, logic and Computation, Tbilisi, Georgia.

• August 1997. Paper accepted at the International Symposium on Reflexives and Reciprocals, University of Colorado at Boulder, Colorado, USA.

• June 1997. Presentation at the PhD Student Conference in Linguistics, Theoretical Linguistics Program, University of Budapest, Hungary.

• May 1997. Presentation at the 9th Student Conference in Linguistics, SCIL9, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan, USA.

• July 1996. Presentation at the Conference “Conceptual and Computational Models of Language, MODEL-96”, Linguistic Institute, Georgian Academy of Sciences, Tbilisi, Georgia.

• October 1995. Participation in the 1st Tbilisi Symposium on Language, logic and Computation, Gudauri, Georgia.

• 1993-1995. Presentations at the conferences of PhD students and young researchers of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Georgian Academy of Sciences.

• 1993. Paper accepted at the 31st Student International Scientific Conference, Novosibirsk State University, Russia.

• 1992-1993. Presentations at undergraduate student conferences at the Tbilisi State University, Georgia.

Schools

• January 2002. Participation in the LOT Winter School 2002, University of Leiden, the Netherlands.

• July 2001. Participation in the LOT Summer School 2001, Utrecht University, the Netherlands.

• January 2000. Participation in the LOT Winter School 2000, University of Leiden, the Netherlands.

• July 1999. Participation in the LOT Summer School 1999, University of Potsdam, Germany.

• July 1995. Presentation at the Student Session of the Third European Summer School on Multilinguality, Edinburgh, UK.

• April 1994. Participation in the Spring School at the Centre for Language, Logic and Computation, Tbilisi State University, Georgia.