Karina Vamling, Associate professor
School of International Migration and Ethnic Relations (IMER) at Malmoe University
 
Caucasian studies 
 
Research projects
Georgian on our minds...
Research contacts
Courses taught
Publications
Field site: Tbilisi
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Field site: Maykop
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Awards
Online publications
Archive materials
Email:   karina.vamling@imer.mah.se
Address: Citadellsvägen 7, Malmoe University, 20506 Malmoe, Sweden.
Tel. +46-(0)
-665 73 91, Fax: +46-(0)40-665 70 30

Research interests: Language typology and Caucasian linguistics, language contact and sociolinguistics.
Ph.D. thesis on complementation in Georgian

Language, History and Cultural Identities in the Caucasus,
Conference hosted by IMER June 17-19 2005, read more

Research projects

Reference grammar for Megrelian 
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The Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation 

The Langauge Situation in Georgia - from minority to majority language
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Swedish Council for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences, HSFR,
Research on Culture and Society in West and Central Asia

Ergativity in the Circassian languages,
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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

European Unity in Diversity. Three cases of Post-Soviet Minorities
Centre for European Studies, Lund University

The syntax and morphology of subordinate clauses in Kabardian,  click here
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

Minority languages in Georgia
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

Global changes and local cultures. Three case studies.
Forskningsrådsnämnden, FRN

Interactive language maps
Elisabet Rausings minnesfond

Database for Caucasian languages,
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Courses taught

IMER, Malmoe University

  • Språklig mångfald 
  • Språk i kontakt 
  • Språket och människan 
  • Språk i samhälle 
  • Teori och metod: Språk 
  • Georgian online

Department of Lingusitics, 
Lund University

  • Världens språk 
  • Typological linguistics 
  • Språktypologi och språkliga universaler 
  • Grammatik 
  • Kontrastiv grammatik 
  • Psykolingvistik 
  • Sociolingvistik 
  • Sociolinguistics and Language Planning  in the European Context 
  • Georgian 
  • Caucasian Linguistics 
  • Ett från svenska starkt avvikande språks struktur


Introduction to Caucasus Studies

  Resource for the programme Eastern Europe and Central Asia  in Theory and Practice, Österlens folkhögskola
 

Soderzhanie.pdf
Publications

Kartvelian lang. list
Northwest Caucasian lang. list
Northeast Caucasian lang. list
Caucasian lang. in general, list
Complementation, list
Other topics, list


Abstract
Archive materials
 
 

Online publications

Kock Kobaidze, M. & K. Vamling. 1997. 'Case marking in infinitive (ad-form) clauses in Old Georgian'. Working Papers 46: 167-184. Dept. of Linguistics, Lund University. 

Kumakhov, M., Vamling, K. and Z. Kumakhova. 1996. Ergative case in the Circassian languages. Lund University, Dept. of Linguistics Working Papers 45:93-111. 

Kumakhov, M. & K. Vamling. 1995. 'On root and subordinate clause structure in Kabardian'. Working Papers 44: 91-110. Dept. of Linguistics, Lund University. 

Vamling, K. Tjerkesserna - splittring och återförening (in Swedish). Lund University, Dept. of Linguistics. Ms.
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Awards
 
 
Regeringens forskningsberednings pris 1993

The Chikobava prize awarded by the Georgian Academy of Sciences 1998

International Adygeh (Circassian) Academy of Sciences (IAAS) 1998