2003 Volume 8 On the origin of wedding customs and rites Entry date: 2009-11-21 Author(s): Nelly A. Bregadze |
Corporative study of Georgian-Bulgarian historic-ethnographic material with that of ancient oriental world has revealed that the wedding customs and rites originate from the festive occasion devoted to the vegetative dying and resurrecting deity. |
2003 Volume 8 Entry date: 2009-11-21 Author(s): George Chinchaladze |
To empower the Caucasus, the Russian Empire is the oldest of the "divide and power". In the first years of Georgian nobility the amazing break-up and confusion collapsed; "We all have some ropes, that is, we're all in a stupid way" (Al. Orbeliani). It was difficult to distinguish between a friend, a relative or a Russian "watcher". Everyone started to doubt each other. "Such a mystery is something in us, such ruthlessness has been thrown down ... We have brought this kind of mercy to Russians, nothing more than this" (Al. Orbeliani). |
2003 Volume 8 The Consonant Phonotactics of Georgian Entry date: 2009-11-21 Author(s): Marika Butskhrikidze |
The study of consonant sequences, e.g. forms of the CCC type, is the central topic of this thesis. Assuming that language is an open system and anticipating the idea of relativity and complementariness, the hypothesis that CCC and CVCVCV are related is proposed. More specifically, I argue that all well-formed consonant sequences are derived from structures of the CVC type, which is the lexical part of a word, the stem. On the representational side, to account for the consonant phonotactics a phonological hierarchy is introduced in which the stem domain occupies a place between the segment and the word domain. |
2003 Volume 8 The Great Colchian Civilization and the possible state language of the land of Aietes Entry date: 2009-11-21 Author(s): Tariel Putkaradze |
According to the article, it appears logical for us to think that at the end of the second Millennium the state of "Greater Colchis" comprised the Eastern and Southern costs of the Black Sea (from Bichrini to Ordumi), a great portion of the Kura river valley and the entirety of the Ch’orokhi river valley; the possible state and official language of this state must have been structured on the model of Proto-Kartvelian, a type A sibilant language (and not a Zan, theoretically hypothetical Zan-Georgian or other such linguistic unity). |