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Tariel Putkaradze
Tariel Putkaradze was born in 1960. In
1983 he graduated with honors from the
Faculty of Philology, Ivane Javakhishvili
Tbilisi State University; during 1984-
1986 he studied at postgraduate courses
at the Institute of Linguistics, Georgian
Academic of Sciences. In 1987 he defended
his dissertation. Since then has
worked as a scientific employee at the
Institute of Linguistics named after Arn.
Chikobava, Georgian Academic of
Sciences.
On October 28, 1990 he was
elected as a member of the Supreme Council of Georgia. He signed the
Act of Independence of Georgia on April 9, 1991.
In 1992 he was appointed to the position of a director at Kartvelology
Research Institute of Akaki Tsereteli State University
(holding the same position up to the present period).
Since 1995 he has organized the annual international symposium
‘Kutaisi Discussions’in the fields of dialectology, ethnology and folklore.
Since 1996 he has served as an Editor in Chief of the famous
scientific periodical "Kartvelian Heritage". Several national and international
scientific projects have been implemented under his supervision.
In 1998 he defended his doctoral dissertation titled "Vowel System
of Modern Georgian Language". Since 1999 he has been working
as a Professor at Akaki Tsereteli State University. In 2000 he was
awarded a title of the Professor by Academic Council of Ivane Javakhishvili
Tbilisi State University.
Since 2005 MA and Doctoral programs have been implemented
under his supervision at Akaki Tsereteli State University and Sokhumi
State University.
Sphere of research interests: Kartvelian linguistics, linguisticcultural
history of the Georgian nation, culturology, literature studies,
etc.
He has published approximately 200 scientific works in linguistics
(including monographs and textbooks) and more than 200 publicist
letters.
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