Gospels are one type of translated historical document. There are many versions of the same Gospel that have been translated from the original, or from another Gospel that has already been translated into a different language. Nowadays, it is difficult to determine the language of the original Gospel from where these Gospels were translated. In this paper we use a supervised machine learning te...

This article examines the prosodic correlates of focus in Georgian declarative sentences, based on speech production data. Georgian is an intonation language with flexible word order, and it is sensitive to information structure. It is shown in the paper that focus has an impact on duration but does not systematically change the tonal realization of the constituents. Most prosodic correlates of...

This paper examines the importance of medical electricity in Georgian England, the contexts and rationale for the use of electrical treatments, and the relationship between medical electricity and natural philosophy. It focuses upon the application of medical electricity by thephysician andnatural philosopherErasmusDarwin, and the role of electricity in his philosophy and psychophysiology. The ...

The analysis of recorded audio sources has become increasingly important in ethnomusicological research. Such audio material may contain important cues on performance practice, information that is often lost in manually generated symbolic music transcriptions. As an application scenario, we consider in this paper a musically relevant audio collection that consists of three-voice polyphonic Geor...

It is well-known that nouns denoting the human body or parts of it are an important source of polysemy in the languages of the world. One such example, the development of Georgian tav’head’ into a reflexive anaphor, is the object of the present paper. After a typological overview of reflexivization strategies in Georgian, we present an account, both synchronic and diachronic, of the rise of var...

seems rather too neat. And in her eagerness to identify the mixed motives of the medics who voluntarily proffered their services and the middling sort benefactors whose subscriptions kept the institution financially afloat, she may underemphasize the role of pure human compassion. Certainly a genuine desire to assist the sick poor was not incompatible with "a shrewd calculation" (p. 115) of the...

This paper proposes a prosodic structure and the tonal pattern of Georgian, the national language of Georgia. The language has three prosodic units above the Word: Intonation Phrase (IP), Intermediate Phrase (ip), and Accentual Phrase (AP). All these units are marked by a boundary tone, but an AP in Georgian is unique typologically in that it has pitch accent linked to a stressed syllable and p...