უთურგაიძე, თედორე. ქართული ენის მთის კილოთა ზოგი თავისებურება / რედ. შ. გაფრინდაშვილი ; საქ. სსრ მეცნ. აკად., ენათმეცნიერების ინსტიტუტი.
თბილისი : გამომცემლობა «მეცნიერება», 1966. 125 გვ.
მაგარი ყდა. ფორმატი 22 სმ. ტირაჟი 1000 ეგზ. პარალელური სათაურის გვერდი რუსულ ენაზე.
მდგომარეობა კარგი: ყდის ქვედა მარცხენა ნაწილში გამოხატული ლაქა (ტენიანობის კვალი); ბლოკი მტკიცე, ფურცლები მცირედ მოყვითლო, ტექსტი სრულად იკითხება.
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Uturgaidze, Tedore [Fyodor Gigoyevich]. Some Features of the Mountain Dialects of the Georgian Language / editor Sh. Gaprindashvili ; Academy of Sciences of the Georgian SSR, Institute of Linguistics.
Tbilisi : Metsniereba Publishing House, 1966. 125 pp.
Hardcover. Format 22 cm (standard octavo, approximately 145×220 mm). Print run of only 1,000 copies. With a parallel title-page in Russian. Approved by the Editorial Council of the Georgian SSR Academy of Sciences.
Condition good: a noticeable water-stain on the lower left portion of the front cloth board; light age-toning to the cloth and to interior leaves; text-block firm, sewing sound, leaves clean and the text fully legible throughout.
A specialised monograph by the Georgian dialectologist Tedore (Fyodor Gigoyevich) Uturgaidze on the principal grammatical and phonological features of the eastern Georgian mountain dialects — the highland dialect group encompassing Khevsurian, Pshavian, Tushetian, Mokhevian, Mtiulian, Gudamaqarian and the related dialects of the upper Aragvi and Iori valleys, which together preserve some of the most archaic morphological and phonological features of the Georgian language. Issued under the editorial supervision of Sh. Gaprindashvili and approved by the Editorial Council of the Georgian SSR Academy of Sciences, the volume forms part of the substantive output of the Institute of Linguistics (today the Arnold Chikobava Institute of Linguistics) on Kartvelian dialectology. Uturgaidze, working in the tradition of the Tbilisi dialectological school established by Akaki Shanidze and continued by Arnold Chikobava, Ivane Imnaishvili and Aleksandre Glonti, treats here the conservative features of the highland dialects across the principal levels of grammatical description: the vowel and consonant inventories and their phonotactic distribution, declensional and verbal morphology, syntactic patterns specific to the mountain group, and lexicon (with particular attention to lexical items preserved in highland speech but lost in the standard literary language). These features are central to the historical reconstruction of the pre-literary stages of Georgian and to comparative-historical Kartvelological research. Issued by Metsniereba (the academic press of the Georgian SSR Academy of Sciences) in a print run of only 1,000 copies, distributed primarily through the institutional academic exchange channels of the Academy, the volume is now genuinely scarce on the international market and rarely surfaces outside specialist Kartvelological collections. Of considerable interest to specialists in Kartvelian dialectology, to historians of the Georgian language, to ethnographers of the highland regions of Georgia, and to comparative-historical linguists of the Caucasian language area.