Thomas V. Gamkrelidze
Corresponding Member of the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences abroad since 1983
Deceased on 10/02/2021
- Orientalisches Institut der Georgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
Research Areas:
- Linguistics and Literature
- Oriental studies
- Comparative linguistics
Profile:
Selected Memberships:
- Linguistic Society of America, Washington, DC
- British Academy
- Russische Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaft
- National Academy of Sciences, USA
- Academia Europaea
- Ungarische Akademie der Wissenschaften
Selected Prizes:
- Leninpreis (USSR)
- Humboldt-Forschungspreis
- Ivane Javakhishvili-Prize of the Tbilisi State University
- President of the "11th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences", Tallinn, Estonia
- Editor-in-Chief of the USSR Academy of Sciences Journal “Voprosy Jazykoznanija”
Selected Publications:
- Gamkrelidze, Thomas V. et al. (2008) A Course in Theoretical Linguistics (georgisch)., 2. Aufl.; Tiflis: Tbilisi Univ. Press.
- Gamkrelidze, Thomas V. (2006) Selected Writings: Linguistic Sign, Typology, and Language Reconstruction. In Reihe: Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft, 122; Innsbruck: Inst. für Sprachen u. Literaturen d. Univ. Innsbruck, Abt. Sprachwiss. (207 Sei
- Gamkrelidze, Thomas V.; Ivanov, Vjacheslav V. (1995) Indo-European and the Indo-Europeans. A Reconstruction and Historical Analysis of a Proto-Language and a Proto-Culture (2 vols.). In Reihe: Trends in linguistics: Studies and monographs, 80; Berlin/New
- Gamkrelidze, Thomas V. (1994) Alphabetic Writing and the Old Georgian Script. A Typology and Provenience of Alphabetic Writing Systems. In Reihe: Anatolian and Caucasian studies; Delmar/New York: Caravan Books (102 Seiten).
- Gamkrelidze, Thomas V.; Machavariani, Givi (1982) Sonantensystem und Ablaut in den Kartvelsprachen. In Reihe: Ars linguistica, 10; Tübingen: Narr (160 Seiten).