This thesis analyses ethnic conflict in the context of post-Soviet state building in the South
Caucasian republic of Georgia. It aims to provide an explanation as to why Georgia proved …

Who are the Mingrelians? Language, Identity and Politics in Western Georgia Page 1 1 Sixth
Annual Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities 2001 Panel: Minority Identity …

Urbanisation and globalisation, in combination with the increasing use of information and
communication technology (ICT), are processes that have a profound influence on societies …

Background Georgia has a history of statehood of more than 2000 years (Guchua and
Meskhia 1979: 16-20) and has had a documented literary language since the fifth century …

Megrelian is a Kartvelian (South Caucasian) language spoken in Western Georgia. The
number of speakers is estimated to approximately half a million (no official census data are …

The paper analyzes the functions of the conjunction-ni “that” in hypotactic constructions
based on the material of the Megrelian language. The issue is significant from two …

Språkliga förändringar sker i regel mycket långsamt, men när man blickar ett trettiotal år
tillbaka i tiden till 1987 är det slående hur mycket och hur snabbt situationen har förändrats i …

In the whole corpus the total number of sentences with the initial subordinator namda
(namuda/naməda) was 375. As seen from Table 2, out of these 375 sentences, namda …

In the post-Soviet country of Georgia is a strong sense of nationalism prevalent in the current
process of nation building. The Megrelians, traditionally understood as a sub-ethnic …

Background The Megrelian language–in Megrelian margaluri nina–belongs to the South
Caucasian or Kartvelian languages (Fig. 1; based on Dzidziguri 1970). In this paper we will …