Georgian Academy of Sciences

Tamaz Gamkrelidze

Date of birth: October 23, 1929, Kutaisi, Georgia.
Professor of Linguistics and Oriental Studies.

Director, The Tsereteli Institute of Oriental Studies, Georgian Academy of Sciences.
Chair, Structural and Applied Linguistics, Tbilisi State University.

Dr. h.c., Universities of Bonn & Chicago,
Honorary Member of the Linguistic Society of America,
Member of the Georgian Academy of Sciences (Tbilisi),
Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow,
Foreign Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts & Sciences (Boston),
Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy (London),
Corresponding Member, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (Wien),
Foreign Member, Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften (Leipzig),
Honorary Member, "Indogermanische Gesellschaft" (FR Germany).

Lenin-prize (1988), Humboldt-prize (Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, 1989),
Javakhishvili-prize (Tbilisi State University, 1990).

Address:
380062 Tbilisi, Georgia,
acad.Tsereteli st.3, The Oriental Institute, Georgian Academy of Sciences.
Tel: (995 32) 233885
Fax: (995 32) 233885, (995 32) 290925

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

The Akkado­Hittite Syllabary and the Problem of the Origin of the Hittite Script: "Archiv Orient(ln(", 1961, 29/3: pp. 406­418.

A typology of Common Kartvelian: "Language", v. 42, N1,1966. pp. 69­83.

Kartvelian and Indo­European: A typology of reconstructed linguistic systems: «To Honor Roman Jakobson. Essays on the Occasion of His 70. Birthday», Paris 1967: Mouton: pp. 708­717.

Hittite and the Laryngeal Theory: PRATIDÔNAM. Indian, Iranian, and Indo­European Studies presented to Franciscus Bernardus Jacobus Kuiper on His Sixtieth Birthday: Mouton 1967: pp. 89­97.

Zum Problem der Markiertheit in der Phonologie: "Phonetica", 1973.

(co­author: V.V. Ivanov) Sprachtypologie und die indoeurop(ischen Verschl(sse: "Phonetica", 1973: pp. 150­156.

The problem of "l'arbitraire du signe": "Language", v. 50, N1, 1974: pp. 102­110.

(co­author: Togo Gudava) Caucasian Languages: "The New Encyclopaedia Britannica", in 30 volumes, 1973­1974: "Macropaedia", v. 3: pp. 1011­1015.

On the correlation of stops and fricatives in a phonological system, "Lingua" 35, 1975: pp. 231­261.

Linguistic typology and Indo­European reconstruction: "Linguistic Studies offered to Joseph Greenberg on the Occasion of his Sixtieth Birthday", Saratoga, 1977: pp. 339­406.

Phonological typology and the hierarchical relations among phonemic units: "Universals of Human Language", v. II. Phonology, Stanford, 1977. Stanford University Press: pp. 9­46.

"Personenhaftigkeit" und "Valenz" des Verbs: "GEORGICA". Zeitschrift f(r Kultur, Sprache und Geschichte Georgiens und Kaukasiens, H. 4, 1981.

The "principle of complementarity" and the problem of the arbitrary linguistic sign: 'Logos Semanticos'. Studia Linguistica in Honorem Eugenio Coseriu, 1921­1981, v. II, Berlin . New York 1982: pp. 335­342.

Language typology and language universals and their implications for the reconstruction of the Indo­European stop system: "Amsterdam Studies in the Theory and History of Linguistic Science", IV. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory. Essays in Historical Lingustics in Memory of J.A.Kerns, ed. by Y.L.Arbeitman & A.R.Bomhard, Amsterdam 1982: John Benjamins B.V.

(co­author: V.V.Ivanov) The Ancient Near East and the Indo­European problem: Temporal and Territorial Characteristics of Proto­Indo­European based on Linguistic and Historico­Cultural data: "Soviet Studies in History". The Indo­European Problem: Recent Soviet Contributions, N.Y. 1983, vol. XII, N1­2, pp. 7­52.

(co­author: V.V.Ivanov) The migrations of tribes speaking the Indo­European dialects from their original homeland in the Near East to their historical habitations in Eurasia: "Soviet Studies in History". The Indo­European Problem: Recent Soviet Contributions, N.Y. 1983, vol. XII, N1­2: pp. 53­95.

Lexico­Semantic Reconstruction and the Linguistic Paleontology of Culture: "Language Typology" 1985, John Benjamins: pp. 43­47.

The Indo­European Glottalic Theory: A New Paradigm in I.E. Comparative Lingustics: "The Journal of Indo­European Studies", 1988: pp. 48­59.

Alphabetic writing and the Old Georgian script. A typology and provenience of alphabetic systems of writing, Tbilisi 1988/89: Tbilisi University Press.

Language typology and Indo­European reconstruction: "The New Sound of Indo­European". Essays in Phonological Reconsruction, ed. by Theo Vennemann, Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin . New York 1989: pp. 117­121.

The "unconscious" and the problem of isomorphism between the genetic code and semiotic systems: "Folia Linguistica". Acta Societatis Linguisticae Europaeae, t. XXIII/1­2/, 1989: pp. 1­5.

(co­author: V.V.Ivanov), The Early History of Indo­European Languages: "Scientific American", vol. 262, N3, 110­116, March 1990.

On the problem of an Asiatic original homeland of the Proto­Indo­Europeans. Ex Oriente Lux: "When Worlds Collide". Indo­Europeans and Pre­Indo­Europeans. The Bellaggio Papers presented by T.L.Markey & John F.C.Greppin: Karoma Publishers, Inc. Ann Arbor, Mich. 1990, pp. 5­14.

Language Typology and Diachronic Lingustics: "New Vistas in Grammar. Invariance and Variation", ed. by Linda R.Waugh and Stephen Rudy. "Current Issues in Linguistic Theory", vol. 4, 1991: John Benjamins B.V.: pp. 465­472.

Comparative Reconstruction and Typological Verification: The case of Indo­European: "Reconstructing Languages and Cultures", ed. by Edgar Polom( and Werner Winter, Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin . New York 1992: pp. 63­71.

(co­author: V.V.Ivanov), "Indo­European and Indo­Europeans. A Reconstruction and Historical Analysis of a Proto­Language and Proto­Culture", 2 vols. English version by Johanna Nichols. With a preface by Roman Jakobson: Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin . New York, 1994/95.

Alphabetic Writing and the Old Georgian Script. A Typology and Provenience of Alphabetic Writing Systems: "Caravan Books". Delmar . New York, 1994.

Recent developments in Indo­European Linguistics and a New Paradigm in Indo­European Comparative Studies: "On Languages and Language". The Presidential Addresses of the 1991 Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, ed. by Werner Winter: Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin . New York, 1995: pp. 167­171.

The Root Structure and Apophony in Kartvelian (South Caucasian) and Indo­European: "Kurylowicz Memorial Volume", p. I, Cracow 1995: Universitas, 1995: pp. 81­90.


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