Ecole d'été CauLaGe 2026 à Peria (Géorgie) du 3 au 17 juillet 2026

This summer program "CauLaGe 2026" is a joint effort of CNRS (France) and Batumi State University (Georgia) and has the following goals:
 

• introduce Georgian students to formal methods of language description and documentation

• give students—Georgian or otherwise, hands-on onsite training in linguistic fieldwork on an understudied language

• foster linguistic work on Abkhaz

• foster enduring collaborations with Georgian scholars

To this end, we have designed a program of classes which will familiarize students with Abkhaz grammar and provide brief introduction to all major subfield of linguistics in the morning and leave enough time in the afternoons to work with speakers of Abkhaz under the supervision of more senior scholars.
 

The instructors and supervisors who will participate in the program are (in alphabetical order):

• Faruk Akkus, UMass
• Nikos Angelopoulos, CNRS
• Peter Arkadiev, Potsdam University
• Zurab Baratashvili, Tbilisi State University
• Rajesh Bhatt, UMass
• Marina Chumakina, University of Surrey
• Lieven Danckeart, CNRS
• Marta Donazzan, Nantes Université
• Ksenia Ershova, UCL
• Zhuzhuna Gumbaridze, Batumi State University
• Aritz Irurtzun, CNRS
• Mzia Khakhutaishvili, Batumi State University
• Nicola Lampitelli, Nanterre Université 
• Yury Lander, Higher School of Economics
• Léa Nash, Université Paris 8-CNRS
• Tatiana Nikitina, CNRS
• Jérémy Pasquereau, CNRS
• Neige Rochant, Nanterre Université
• Isabelle Roy, Nantes Université
• Jean-Christophe Verstraete, University of Leuven

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CauLaGe summer program is a CauLaGeNet event, find out more about our network and its other initiatives here: https://sites.google.com/view/caulagenet/home