Invited scholar
Rajesh Bhatt
University of Massachusetts Amherst

This summer program is a joint effort of CNRS (France) and Batumi State University (Georgia) and has the following goals:

• introduce Georgian students to formal methods of language description and documentation

• give students—Georgian or otherwise, hands-on onsite training in linguistic fieldwork on an understudied language

• foster linguistic work on Abkhaz

• foster enduring collaborations with Georgian scholars

To this end, we have designed a program of classes which will familiarize students with Abkhaz grammar and provide brief introduction to all major subfield of linguistics in the morning and leave enough time in the afternoons to work with speakers of Abkhaz under the supervision of more senior scholars.

CauLaGe summer program is a CauLaGeNet event, find out more about our network here: https://sites.google.com/view/caulagenet/home