Jorbenadze, B. Principles of Formal and Functional Analysis of the Georgian Verb (K'art'uli zmnis p'ormob'rivi da p'unk'tsiuri analizis p'rintsipebi). 1980. In Georgian.

ჯორბენაძე, ბესარიონ. ქართული ზმნის ფორმობრივი და ფუნქციური ანალიზის პრინციპები / რედაქტორები შ. ძიძიგური და დ. გეწაძე ; თბილისის შრომის წითელი დროშის ორდენოსანი სახელმწიფო უნივერსიტეტი, ახალი ქართული ენის კათედრა.
თბილისი : თბილისის სახელმწიფო უნივერსიტეტის გამომცემლობა, 1980. 408 გვერდი ; 22 სმ.
მაგარი ყდა. ტირაჟი 2 000 ც.
მდგომარეობა კარგი: ყდა სუფთა; ბლოკი კარგი, ფურცლები ოდნავ გაყვითლებული, ტექსტი სრული.
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Jorbenadze, Besarion. Principles of Formal and Functional Analysis of the Georgian Verb / editors Sh. Dzidziguri and D. Getsdze ; Department of Modern Georgian Language, Tbilisi State University (Order of the Red Banner of Labour).
Tbilisi : Tbilisi State University Press, 1980. 408 pp. ; 22 cm.
Hardcover. Print run of only 2,000 copies.
Condition good: binding clean and firm throughout; leaves lightly age-toned; text complete.

Besarion Jorbenadze was a leading Georgian linguist of the second half of the twentieth century, Professor at the Department of Modern Georgian Language of Tbilisi State University, and one of the principal authorities on Georgian verbal morphology and functional syntax. The present monograph, issued in 1980 by Tbilisi University Press, represents the fullest systematic treatment of the Georgian verb from the dual perspective of formal morphology and functional analysis. The eight chapters of the work move from the foundational ontological and methodological questions of linguistic science through a treatment of old and modern Georgian, the methodology of functional class analysis, the dynamics of verb formation in Georgian, the principles governing the combination and orthographic representation of verb forms, the problematic of verb form compatibility, principles of functional verb analysis, and the semantic-structural guidelines for the classification of verb forms. The editors were Sh. Dzidziguri, a major figure in Georgian linguistics, and D. Getsdze. With a print run of only 2,000 copies, the book belongs to the genuinely rare category of Soviet Georgian university press monographs intended primarily for internal academic distribution and rarely reaching the book trade. Collectors and scholars working in Kartvelian linguistics, Georgian verbal typology, and the comparative study of Caucasian verb systems will find this a substantive and scarce reference.