Dr. Svetlana Berikashvili
Dr. Svetlana Berikashvili holds a Ph.D. degree in General Linguistics (Georg-August-Universität-Göttingen, Germany & Ilia State University, Georgia), and Ph.D. in Greek Linguistics, MA in Classical Philology and BA Hons in Georgian Language and Literature & Modern Greek Language and Literature (Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Georgia). She is an associate professor of Linguistics at the School of Arts and Sciences, Ilia State University. Prior to joining the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies as a visiting Georgian Fellow, Svetlana held a PostDoc position in General Linguistics at Bielefeld University, Germany.
Her research interests lie in formal linguistics, more precisely in syntactic theory focusing on ergativity issues and case licensing; endangered languages, focusing on morphosyntactic variation and change and language contact issues; morphology; diachronic linguistics; Georgian morphosyntactic computational analysis using special tools for the annotation of universal syntactic dependencies; and, corpus linguistics. She contributed to the development of the Georgian Language Corpus at Ilia State University, one of which was the Corpus of Georgian Chronicles, where she provided meta-annotation of manuscripts following the TEI guidelines and supervised others’ work.
Since 2005 Svetlana has been teaching various courses on Greek language, Georgian language and Linguistics at different universities, including Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Georgia; National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece; Ilia State University, Georgia; Georg-August-Universität-Göttingen, Germany, etc. Her approach to teaching focuses on engaging young scholars in research projects, thus strengthening the nexus between research and teaching and developing the teaching architectures that promote research-based educational practices.
Svetlana has authored several publications on different aspects of Greek and Georgian Grammar (including three research monographs). Her current research project in Oxford is focused on the manuscripts related to Georgian Grammar, studies of Georgian and Georgian word lists from the Wardrop Collection of Bodleian Library and their preparation for online publication.
