Caucasus Collegium researcher, Prof. Karina Vamling, participated as a member of the defense committee on May 27 for Jesse Wichers Schreur’s PhD thesis on Tsova-Tush — Intense language contact in Eastern Georgia: The case of Tsova-Tush at the Institute for Empirical Linguistics at Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main. The thesis compares Tsova-Tush, Chechen and Ingush and the influence of Georgian on Tsova-Tush in different domains and during different periods. The thesis has been supervised by Prof. Gerd Carling (Frankfurt) and Prof Gilles Authier (Paris).
