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Svetlana Berikashvili

Direction:Linguistics
Position:Associate Professor

Svetlana Berikashvili obtained her PhD in Linguistics (2006) from Ivane Javkhishvili Tbilisi State University, her Master’s degree in Classical Philology (2002), and her BA Hons in Georgian Language and Literature; Modern Greek Language and Literature (2000) from the same university. Prior to joining Ilia State University, Svetlana held a PostDoc position in General Linguistics at Bielefeld University, Germany (2013-2016) and a Researcher position in Generative syntax at the Joint Lehman-Haupt International Doctoral Program of Ilia State University and Georg August University of Goettingen, Germany (2018-2022). Since 2005 Svetlana has been teaching various courses on Greek Language and Linguistics at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University. 2011-2013 as a coordinator of the corpus projects at Ilia State University, she contributed to the development of the Georgian Language corpus.

At different times she was invited to give lectures and talks at various universities in Europe, such as National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece), Bielefeld University and Georg August University of Goettingen (Germany). Svetlana is a member of different international organizations, including GLOW (Generative Linguistics of Old World) and SLE (Societas Linguistica Europea). She systematically participates in international conferences and workshops and is the author of three monographs and more than 30 scholarly publications.

Scientific interests / research interests
  • Generative Grammar (Syntax)
  • Language Contact
  • Morphology
  • Documentation of dialects and endangered language varieties
  • Corpus Linguistics
  • Contrastive Linguistics
  • Language Acquisition

Books

  1. Berikashvili, Svetlana. Morphological Aspects of Pontic Greek spoken in Georgia. Series: Languages of the World 54. Munich: Lincom.
  2. Berikashvili, Svetlana. Georgian-Greek Contrastive Grammar. Tbilisi: Logos.
  3. 2008. Berikashvili, Svetlana. The Principles of Classification of the Declension System in Ancient and Modern Greek. Tbilisi: Logos.

Articles

  1. Berikashvili, Svetlana & Irina Lobzhanidze. Merged functionality of absolutive and nominative in Georgian. In Makharoblidze Tamar (ed.), Issues in Kartvelian Studies, 121-147. Wilmington, De: Vernon Press.
  2. Berikashvili, Svetlana. Contact-Induced Change in the Domain of Grammatical Gender in Pontic Greek spoken in Georgia. Languages 7(2):79. DOI: 10.3390/languages7020079.
  1. Berikashvili, Svetlana. Does Ergative Case Assigning depend on Transitivity Condition in Georgian? Kadmos 11. 6-54.
  2. Berikashvili, Svetlana. Loan Verb Adaptation in Pontic Greek spoken in Georgia. In Christos Tzitzilis & Georgios Papanastassiou (eds.), Language Contact in Balkans and Asia Minor, Volume 1, 262–279. Thessaloniki: Institute of Modern Greek Studies, Manolis Triandaphyllidis Foundation.
  3. Berikashvili, Svetlana. Several Features of Aorist and Verbal System in Pontic Greek spoken in Georgia, Arxeion Pontou (Pontic Archive) 58. 195–229.
  4. Berikashvili, Svetlana & Irina Lobzhanidze. Number in Pontic Greek spoken in Georgia. In Maria Chondrogianni, Simon Courtenage, Geoffrey Horrocks, Amalia Arvaniti and Ianthi Tsimpli (eds.), Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Greek Linguistics, 51–61. London: University of Westminster.
  5. Berikashvili, Svetlana. Morphological Integration of Russian and Turkish Nouns in Pontic Greek. STUF – Language Typology and Universals 69 (2). 255–276. DOI: 10.1515/stuf-2016-0012.

See CV for the extensive list of publications

Current Courses

Field Linguistics and Computer Processing of Language; Syntax Lab - Exercise; Case Theory; Linguistic Research Methods (Applied Linguistics)

Course Catalog

  • Modern Syntactic Theory and Generative Grammar, Master’s course
  • Language and Modern Technologies, Master’s course

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