SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
ILIA STATE UNIVERSITY

Direction:Lexicography
Position:Full Professor

Director of the Centre for Lexicography and Language Technologies





Tinatin Margalitadze studied linguistics and English at Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (TSU), Georgia. She did her postgraduate studies at the Chair of English Philology of TSU and in 1983 defended her candidate’s thesis (PhD) “Structural and Semantic Characterization of Adjectives in Modern English”. In 1989 she participated in Teacher Training Courses at the University of Surrey, Great Britain. In 1997 as a visiting scholar she spent one term at the Department of Linguistics, Cambridge University, Great Britain. In 2011 she was a visiting scholar at the University of Turin.

Since 1985 one of the compilers, editors, then editor in chief and publisher of Comprehensive English-Georgian Dictionary (14 published volumes; online version – www.dict.ge, comprising 110 000 entries). One of the compilers and editor of English-Georgian learner’s Dictionary. Editor of English-Georgian Military Online Dictionary (http://mil.dict.ge), English-Georgian Biology Online Dictionary (http://bio.dict.ge) and English-Russian-Georgian Technical Online Dictionary (http://techdict.ge).

Author and supervisor of the MA program “Lexicography, Terminology and Modern Technologies” and of the PhD module: “Digital Lexicography” within the PhD program “Digital Humanities” at Ilia State University.

She is one of the initiators and organizers of Batumi International Symposia in Lexicography (2010 and 2012).
She is the organizer and chair of XVII EURALEX International Congress (Tbilisi, 2016) http://euralex2016.ge/

Scientific interests / research interests

Research interests of T. Margalitadze include: bilingual lexicography (general and specialized); the problem of equivalence in non-related and related languages; universal models of polysemous words; semantic structure of a word and dictionary definitions; history of Georgian bilingual lexicography; parallel corpora; corpus-driven lexicography; machine translation

Books

  • Margalitadze (editor). Lexicography in the XXI century. Proceedings of the International Conference. Ilia state University Publishing House. 2024. https://lexicography21.iliauni.edu.ge/konpherentsiis-krebuli-2/
  • Margalitadze. Introduction to Lexicography. Ilia State University Publishing. Tbilisi, 2022
  • Margalitadze, S. Tchighladze. Unknown Pages of English-Georgian Lexicography. Ilia State University Publishing. Tbilisi, 2022.
  • Margalitadze, M. Odzeli. English-Georgian Dictionary by Marjory Wardrop. TSU Lexicographic Centre. TSU University Press. Tbilisi, 2019. ISBN 978-9941-13-903-1.
  • Margalitadze (editor), G. Meladze, G. Khundadze, Sh. Apridonidze, N. Kvernadze, Kh. Gurieli. English-Georgian Learner’s Dictionary (30 000 entries). TSU Lexicographic Centre. Tbilisi, 2019. ISBN 978-9941-30-509-2.
  • Margalitadze, Tinatin & Meladze, George (eds.), 2016. Proceedings of the XVII EURALEX International Congress: Lexicography and Linguistic Diversity. Tbilisi: Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University. http://euralex.org/category/publications/euralex-2016/ http://euralex.org/category/publications/euralex-2016/

Articles in Journals

  • Margalitadze, G. Meladze. ‘Lexicography in Georgia’. In: The Issues of Kartvelian Studies. Publisher: Vernon Press, 2022. ISBN: 978-1-64889-475-6
  • Margalitadze. ‘Lexicography of Georgian’. In: P. Hanks, G.-M. de Schryver (eds.), International Handbook of Modern Lexis and Lexicography. Publisher: Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45369-4_103-1
  • Margalitadze. ‘Language and Ecology of Culture’. Lexicographica (International annual for lexicography),  № 36. Publisher: De Gruyter, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1515/lex-2020-0012

An extensive list of publications

Current Courses

Course Catalog

History of English; Introduction to Lexicography; Lexicography and Lexicology; Terminology: history, methods, modern technologies

Basics of Indo-European Philology; Doctoral Seminar II; Practical Course in General Lexicography; Practical Course in Specialized Lexicography; Word Meaning and Methods of its Research

⦁ ‘Word meaning and methods of its research’ – 2020 – 2021, Autumn term, MA level, TSU
⦁ ‘Terminology: history, methods, modern technologies’ – 2020 – 2021, Autumn term, MA level, TSU
⦁ ‘Genres of lexicography’ – 2020 – 2021, Autumn term, MA level, TSU
⦁ ‘Comparative grammar of the Germanic languages’ – 2020 – 2021, Autumn term, MA level, TSU
⦁ ‘History of Georgian and English lexicography’ – 2018 – 2019, Spring term, MA level, TSU
⦁ ‘History of the English language’ – 2018 – 2019, Spring term, BA level, TSU
⦁ ‘Foundations of lexicography’ – 2018 – 2019, Spring term, BA level, TSU

Member of European Association for lexicography (EURALEX) since 1997;
Member of the Executive Board of EURALEX from 2012 till 2018;
Member of African Association for Lexicography (AFRILEX) since 2017;
Member of Dictionary Society of North America (DSNA) since 2017;
Associate member of the Consortium European Master in Lexicography (EMLEX)