Direction:Linguistics
Position:Full Professor
In 1981, Tamar Makharoblidze graduated from the Faculty of Philology of Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University. She is the author of more than 30 books – monographs and textbooks published in Georgia and abroad, as well as more than a hundred scientific works, one children’s book and about two hundred foreign TV and radio projects, documentaries, full-length and short-length feature and animation films. Makharoblidze is the founder of Georgian sign language (GESL) studies. She created the first Georgian dactyl alphabet for the local deaf community and also the first Georgian Lorm alphabet for the deaf-blind. In 2017, as the winner of the Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation competition, he was awarded the Best Scientist of the Year Award (Georgian Research Sciences).
General linguistics, Sign langugaes, Kartvelian (Georgian) studies, quantitative linguitics, language acquisition, alngugae development, language teahiching.
Books (and chapters in the books)
An extensive list of publications
Published contributions to academic conferences:
Morphology 1; Morphology 2; Sign Languages; Georgian Sign Language
Morphology 1; Typological Analysis of Georgian Language
Georgian Signn Language (GESL) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJRts86u3yA