Dr Mariam Kamarauli

Education

18.12.2018: Defense of the PhD-thesis “The Nominal Domain in Georgian. A Diachronic Analysis” (magna cum laude written, summa cum laude oral defense; supervisors: Prof. Dr. Jost Gippert, Prof. Dr. Nino Sharashenidze), Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany

Master (2015): Empirical linguistics, Caucasian linguistics, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany (supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jost Gippert)

Bachelor (2014): Empirical linguistics, Caucasian linguistics (major) and ethnology (minor), Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany (supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jost Gippert)

2001–2010 Secondary school Goethe-Gymnasium (Frankfurt, Germany)

1999–2001 Elementary school Elsa-Brändström-School (Frankfurt, Germany)

1996–1999 Elementary school School No. 34 (Tbilisi, Georgia)

Employment

Since 12/2024: Research associate for Georgian studies at the institute for empirical linguistics, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany

Since 04/2022: PostDoc in the project 'The Development of Literacy in the Caucasian Territories (DeLiCaTe)' at the CSMC, Hamburg University, Germany

Since 01/2020: Lecturer (for compulsory lectures) and study coordinator at the Institute for Empirical linguistics, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany

06/2019 – 01/2020: Project leader at Heuer Dialog GmbH, Wiesbaden

10/2015 – 09/2018: PhD-Student in the Graduate School „Nominal Modification“, Institute for Linguistics, Goethe University Frankfurt

2016-2019: Consultant of the international project GNC in linguistic matters  at the Institute for Empirical linguistics, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany

2012 – 2015: Student assistant in the framework of the international project Tempus/DIMTEGU at the Institute for Empirical linguistics, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany

2012 – 2014: Tutor for various lectures, held at the Institute of Empirical linguistics (I.A. Introduction to Linguistics, Fundamentals of Syntax), Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany

2011 – 2012: Student assistant in the Caucasian Library at the Institute for Empirical linguistics, Department 09, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany

Teaching since 2015

• Introduction to Linguistics
• Fundamentals of Syntax
• Linguistic Pragmatics
• Fundamentals of linguistic Typology
• Master’s colloquium
• Special issues in Linguistics
  • Definiteness
  • NP structures
  • Genitives in NPs
  • Specificity
  • Lies & Manipulation
  • Swearing and insults

Supervision Activities

Since 2019: Supervision of 9 bachelor and 4 master theses

Reviewer Activities

Since 2024: reviewer for DFG

Since 2019: reviewer for several journal papers and abstracts

Awards and scholarships

2024: Winner of the annual prize "Excellent teaching" (1822-Lehrpreis) of the Goethe University Frankfurt

2023: Nomination for the annual prize "Excellent teaching" (1822-Lehrpreis) of the Goethe University Frankfurt

2022: Nomination for the annual prize "Excellent teaching" (1822-Lehrpreis) of the Goethe University Frankfurt

2021: Nomination for the annual prize "Excellent teaching" (1822-Lehrpreis) of the Goethe University Frankfurt

2021: Stipend for the publication of the PhD-thesis by the Wilhelm Hahn and Erben Fund at the Goethe University Frankfurt

2018: Grade Completion Scholarship at the Goethe University Frankfurt

Project lead (third-party funded)

Since 2023: “GeAbCo” – digital corpus of Abkhazian translations of “The Knight in the Panther's Skin” (international project in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Manana Tandaschwili, Dr. Tobias Weis, Leila Avidzba, Paul Meurer, Institute for Empirical Linguistics, 59.000 GEL)

2023: “My Rustaveli” - Multilingual Online Portal for Georgian Diasporas, (International project in cooperation with Prof. Manana Tandaschwili, Dr. Tobias Weis, Mariam Gobianidze (PhD student) und Davit Maisuradze (PhD student) (30.000 GEL)

Since 2022: “Rustaveli goes digital” – beta version (parallel corpus of the epic “The Knight in the Panther’s Skin” by Shota Rustaveli in 25 languages) (international project in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Manana Tandaschwili and Dr. Tobias Weis, Institute for Empirical Linguistics, 15.000 €)

Editorial activities

2023: Kamarauli, M.(ed.), Tandaschwili, M. (ed.) & Tsetskhladze, T. (ed.): Discourse of Georgian Oral Political Speeches [Georgian], Volume 4. Tbilisi, Iverioni.

Since 2022: Editor-in-chief for the journal “Millennium” (The Peer-reviewed Bilingual Scientific Online Journal of the Academy for Digital Humanities for Young Researchers, ISSN 2960-9887).

Conferences (organization, presentation and moderation)

01. – 03.11.2024: Presentation at “3rd International Scientific Conference Georgia and the Caucasus – Past, Present, Future”, Tbilisi, Georgia

01. – 08.08.2024: Co-organization of and presentation at the “Batumi Summer School 2024”, Batumi, Georgia

18. – 19.03.2024: Co-organization of and presentation at “From East to West: Christian Literacy in the First Millennium”, Hamburg, Germany

04. – 10.10.2023: Co-organization, coordination and presentation at the international symposium "Digital Caucasiology – a Change of Paradigm?", Frankfurt, Germany

04. – 11.08.2023: Co-organization of and presentation at the "Batumi Summer School 2023", Batumi, Georgia

10. – 11.07.2023: Presentation at "Understanding Written Artifacts: Removed and Rewritten: Palimpsests and Related Phenomena from a Cross-Cultural Perspective II", Hamburg, Germany

28. – 01.07.2023: Presentation at "II Second International Scientific Conference "Georgian Manuscript Heritage", Korneli Kekelidze Georgian National Center of Manuscripts – 65, Georgian Monastery of Iviron (Mount Athos) – 1040", Tbilisi, Georgia

11. – 12.05.2023: Moderator at "Understanding Written Artifacts: Beyond Visualising Language" (Georgian Calligraphy: Interpretation of a Text), Hamburg, Germany

02. – 04.12.2022: Presentation at "Humanities in digital societies – IV 2022", Batumi, Georgia

19. – 20.09.2022: Presentation at "LMT - Language and Modern Technologies 2022", Tbilisi, Georgia

12. – 16.09.2022: Presentation at "DOT - Deutscher Orientalistentag 2022", Berlin, Germany

26. – 31.07.2022: Co-organization of and presentation at "Batumi Summer School 2022", Batumi Georgia

18. – 19.06.2022: Presentation at "Theoretical Linguistics and Languages of the Caucasus", Istanbul, Turkey

20. – 22.09.2021: Presentation at "The 17th annual International Caucasian Conference in Memory of St. Grigol Peradze" in Warsaw, Poland

23. – 29.09.2021: Co-organization of and presentation at "Summer School in digital Rustvelology 2021", digital format

25. – 31.08.2020: Co-organization of and presentation at "Batumi Summer School 2020", digital format

01. – 08.10.2019: Co-organization of and presentation at "Batumi Summer School 2019" in Batumi, Georgia

24.08 – 02.09.2018: Co-organization of and presentation at "Batumi Summer School 2018" in Batumi, Georgia

25. – 30.08.2018: Co-organization of and presentation at "Batumi Summer School 2017" in Batumi, Georgia

17 – 18.03.2016: Presentation at "GETEGRA II - Nominals" in Recife, Brazil

04 – 05.02.2016: Co-organization of and presentation at “Syntax and Semantics of the Nominal Domain” in Frankfurt, Germany

2013 – 2014: Co-organization of and presentation at "Batumi Summer School 2013" and "Batumi Summer School 2014" in Batumi, Georgia und "Winter School Bakuriani 2014" in Bakuriani, Georgia

15. – 17.05.2014: Presentation, co-organization and arrangement of the "Study Tour" (in the framework of the project Tempus/DIMTEGU) in Frankfurt, Germany

04. – 05.09.2013: Presentation at "International Conference: Georgian Language and Modern Technologies III" in Tbilisi, Georgia

14. – 23.03.2013: Coordination of "To prepare the university faculty of Georgia and Ukraine to apply modern pedagogical methods - II mod: -Development of syllabuses" in Tbilisi, Georgia (in the framework of the project Tempus/DIMTEGU)

18 – 20.12.2012: Coordination of and presentation at "Preparatory workshop" in Tbilisi, Georgia (Kick-off-meeting in the framework of the project Tempus/DIMTEGU)

Bibliography

Books

2023: Kamarauli, M., Meurer, P., Avidzba, L. & M. Tandaschwili: Frequency Dictionary of Abkhazian Translations of “The Knight in the Panther’s Skin” [Georgian]. Tbilisi: Academy of Digital Humanities

2022: Kamarauli, Mariam: The Nominal Domain in Georgian. A Diachronic Analysis. Wiesbaden: Reichert.

2021: Tandaschwili, Manana & Kamarauli, Mariam (2021): Introduction to Digital Kartvelology (Šesavali digiṭalur kartvelologiaši). Editors: Prof. T. Margalitadze, Prof. D. Tvaltvadze. Tbilisi: Iverioni

Book Chapters

2024: Kamarauli, Mariam (forthc.): “The Oldest Georgian Witness of the Martyrdom of St Febronia”, in Jost Gippert, José Maksimczuk, Hasmik Sargsyan (eds.): Palimpsests and related phenomena across languages and cultures, SMC 42. Berlin / Boston: de Gruyter.

2021: Tandaschwili, Manana & Kamarauli, Mariam: “Digital Rustvelology - Challenges and Perspectives”, in D. Kolbaia (ed.) Caucasica Antiqua et Christiana I, Warsaw: Universitas Varsoviensis.

Articles

2025: Kamarauli, Mariam (forthc.): “Towards a critical edition of the Martyrdom of St Febronia”. To appear in Mravaltavi, Vol. 30, Tbilisi, Georgia.

2024: Kamarauli, Mariam & Manana Tandaschwili (2024): “Research into Equivalence in Multilingual Parallel Corpora”, in Digital Kartvelology, Vol. 3 - The Bilingual Scientific Online Journal of the Academy for Digital Humanities.

2024: Kamarauli, Mariam & Manana Tandaschwili (2024): "Translating the Stylistic Devices of The Knight in the Panther's Skin (The case of the 'sun')", in Digital Kartvelology, Vol. 2 - The Bilingual Scientific Online Journal of the Academy for Digital Humanities.

2024: Kamarauli, Mariam (2024): “Enhancement possibilities for the Georgian National Corpus”, in The Caucasus Journal of Social Sciences (CJSS), Vol 17, Tbilisi, Georgia.

2024: Kamarauli, Mariam (2024): “Digital Methods of Comparative Manuscript Research: Martyrdom of St. Febronia”, in Millennium - The Bilingual Scientific Online Journal of the Academy for Digital Humanities for young researchers, Vol. 2 ISSN 2960-9887 (online).

2024: Kamarauli, Mariam & Kvirkvelia, Eka (forthc.): “A preliminary analysis of the Georgian Palimpsest Paris, BnF, géorg. 5 with Multispectral Imaging” in Mravaltavi, Tbilisi, Georgia.

2024: Kamarauli, Mariam & Kvirkvelia, Eka (forthc.): “New Materials on the Lectionary of Jerusalem Type Preserved in Georgian Palimpsests”, in Proceedings of the international conference “II Second International Scientific Conference ‘Georgian Manuscript Heritage’, Korneli Kekelidze Georgian National Center of Manuscripts – 65, Georgian Monastery of Iviron (Mount Athos) – 1040”, Tbilisi, Georgia.

2023: Kamarauli, M., Avidzba, L. & M. Tandaschwili: "Parallel Corpora and Implementation Possibilities in Multilingual Education (Georgian-Abkhazian Parallel Corpus of "The Knight in the Panther's skin")", in International Journal of Multilingual Education, Vol. 23,  Tbilisi, Georgien.

2023: Kamarauli, Mariam: “Approximative Verbs: A Symbiosis of the Nominal and the Verbal Domain (on the Example of the Georgian Language)”, in Millennium - The Bilingual Scientific Online Journal of the Academy for Digital Humanities for young researchers ISSN 2960-9887 (online).

2022: Kamarauli, Mariam: “Deciphering methods in the project ‘DeLiCaTe – the Development of Literacy in Caucasian Territories’”, in Proceedings of the international conference “Humanities in digital societies - IV 2022”, Batumi, Georgia.

2022: Kamarauli, Mariam: “A Diachronic Analysis of Definiteness in Georgian Based on the GNC” in Proceeding of the international conference “LMT - Language and Modern Technologies 2022”, Tbilisi, Georgia.

2022: Kamarauli, Mariam: “The translation of ‘horse’ from Georgian into Turkish, Kyrgyz and Azeri on the basis of multilingual parallel corpus ‘Rustaveli goes digital’” in Proceedings of the international conference “DOT - Deutscher Orientalistentag 2022”, Berlin, Germany.

2022: Kamarauli, Mariam & Manana Tandaschwili: “A conceptual framework of equivalence evaluation criteria in the multilingual parallel corpus ‘Rustaveli goes digital’”, in Digital Kartvelology - The Bilingual Scientific Online Journal of the Academy for Digital Humanities, ISSN 2720-8427 (Online).

2022: Kamarauli, Mariam: “The category of epistemic specificity in Modern Georgian”, in Proceedings of the international conference “Theoretical Linguistics and Languages of the Caucasus”, Istanbul, Turkey.

2016: Kamarauli, Mariam: “Determiners and modifiers in Old and Modern Georgian II”, in Proceedings of the international conference “Getegra II – Nominals”, Recife, Brasil.

2015: Kamarauli, Mariam: “Determiners and modifiers in Old and Modern Georgian I”, in Proceedings of the international conference “LMT - Language and Modern Technologies”, Tbilisi, Georgia.

2014: Pourtskhvanidze, Z., Kamarauli, M. & A. Kamarauli: “Learner Corpora and Their Potential for Multilingual Teaching”, in K. Gabunia (ed.) International Journal of Multilingual Education, Tbilisi, Georgia.

2013: Kamarauli, Mariam: “OLAT goes Georgian (E-learning-platform of Georgian at the Frankfurt University)”, in Proceedings of the international conference “Georgian Language and Modern Technologies”, Tbilisi, Georgia.

Literary (translation work)

2013: Kwinikadze, Nestan Nene (2013): Techno der Jaguare (translated from Georgian into German). Frankfurt: Frankfurter Verlangsanstalt.

Referees

Prof. Dr. Jost Gippert (jost.gippert"AT"uni-hamburg.de)

Prof. Dr. Darejan Tvaltvadze (darejan.tvaltvadze"AT"tsu.de)

Language skills

Georgian and German (native speaker): C2

English (excellent command / highly proficient in spoken and written English): C1

Russian and French (good command / good working knowledge): B2

Spanish, Turkish (basic communication skills / working knowledge): A2

Additional Skills

Fiona (excellent knowledge)

eScriptorium (excellent knowledge)

Srivito (good knowledge)

Latex (beginner)

Python (beginner)