Shervashidze, I. N. Verb Forms in the Language of Turkic Runic Inscriptions (Formy glagola v yazyke tyurkskikh runicheskikh nadpisey), 1986. In Russian.

Шервашидзе И. Н. Формы глагола в языке тюркских рунических надписей. / АН Грузинской ССР, Институт востоковедения им. Г. В. Церетели.
Тбилиси : Мецниереба, 1983.
136 с. Мягкая издательская обложка, обычный формат. Тираж 1000 экз.
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Shervashidze, I. N. Verb Forms in the Language of Turkic Runic Inscriptions (Formy glagola v yazyke tyurkskikh runicheskikh nadpisey). / Academy of Sciences of the Georgian SSR, G. Tsereteli Institute of Oriental Studies.
Tbilisi : Metsniereba, 1986.
136 pp. Softcover, standard format. Print run: 1,000 copies. In Russian.

This 1986 monograph is a highly specialized linguistic study published by the Metsniereba publishing house, the academic arm of the Georgian Academy of Sciences. The author, I. N. Shervashidze, was a prominent researcher at the Tsereteli Institute of Oriental Studies, a center renowned for its rigorous approach to the languages and cultures of the Near East and Central Asia.
The book focuses on the morphological structure of the verb in the Old Turkic runic inscriptions (also known as Orkhon-Yenisei inscriptions) dating from the 7th to the 10th centuries. These inscriptions, found on stelae and rocks in Mongolia and Southern Siberia, represent the earliest written records of a Turkic language. Shervashidze provides a meticulous analysis of verbal stems, tenses, moods, and aspectual forms, comparing them with later developments in Turkic linguistics.
The work is a significant contribution to Turkology, as it examines the evolution of the Turkic verbal system during its formative literary stage. Shervashidze’s research is essential for understanding how complex grammatical categories were expressed in the language of the early Khaganates. The study is grounded in a deep comparative analysis of the Orkhon, Yenisei, and Talas inscriptions, making it a vital resource for scholars of historical linguistics.
With a very limited print run of only 1,000 copies, this academic publication was intended for a narrow circle of orientalists, linguists, and historians of Central Asia. For collectors of scholarly rare books from the Caucasus and specialists in Ancient Turkic philology, this volume remains an indispensable reference that showcases the depth of the Tbilisi school of Oriental studies.