Sergi Zhghenti. Comparative Phonetics of the Kartvelian Languages, Volume I: The Problem of Syllable Structure (Kartvelur enata shedarebiti p'onet'ik'a). 1960. In Georgian.

ჟღენტი, სერგი. ქართველურ ენათა შედარებითი ფონეტიკა. I : მარცვლის აგებულების პრობლემა / რედ. პროფ. გ. ახვლედიანი ; [ზოგადი ენათმეცნიერების კათედრის შრომები ; 4].
თბილისი : სტალინის სახ. თბილ. სახელმწ. უნ-ტის გამომცემლობა, 1960. 262 გვ.
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Zhghenti, Sergi. Comparative Phonetics of the Kartvelian Languages : Volume I, The Problem of Syllable Structure / editor Prof. G. Akhvlediani ; corrector M. Inasaridze. Series: Works of the Chair of General Linguistics, vol. 4.
Tbilisi : Stalin Tbilisi State University Press, 1960. 262 pp.
Hardcover. Format 60×92/16 (standard octavo, approximately 145×220 mm). Print run of only 1,500 copies. With a Russian-language epigraph drawn from L. V. Shcherba on the half-title verso («Каждый язык имеет свои формы слога, которые должны быть изучаемы» — "Each language has its own forms of syllable, which must be studied"). With a parallel title-page in Russian.
Condition good: light wear at corners and along edges, gilt lettering bright; front pastedown with light spotting in the gutter; text-block firm, sewing sound, leaves clean, text fully legible throughout.

The first volume of Sergi Zhghenti's foundational comparative phonetic study of the Kartvelian language family, focused specifically on the cross-linguistic analysis of syllable structure across Georgian, Megrelian, Laz and Svan. Sergi Zhghenti (1908–1981) was the leading figure in twentieth-century Kartvelian phonetics, a long-time researcher at the Arnold Chikobava Institute of Linguistics of the Georgian Academy of Sciences and a senior member of the Tbilisi State University philology faculty, and the principal modern continuator of the experimental-phonetic tradition initiated in Georgian linguistics by Akaki Shanidze and Giorgi Akhvlediani. The volume was issued under the editorial supervision of Akhvlediani himself, Zhghenti's senior colleague and the founding figure of modern Georgian linguistic scholarship, as the fourth volume in the monograph series Works of the Chair of General Linguistics at Tbilisi State University. The volume's epigraph from Lev Vladimirovich Shcherba (1880–1944), founder of the Saint Petersburg phonological school, signals the methodological lineage of the work in the Russian/Soviet experimental-phonetic tradition while applying its analytic tools to the Kartvelian language family. The imprint date is also of bibliographic interest: the title-page identifies the press as "Stalin Tbilisi State University Press", a designation that was dropped within the year following the continuing posthumous denunciation of Stalin, making this volume one of the very last of the university's academic monographs to bear the Stalin honorific.