Editor's Foreword

Authors

  • Ivane Lezhava

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.55804/jtsu.15120473.2025.18.14

Keywords:

issues of linguistics, journal, linguistics

Abstract

Editor’s Foreword

 

The scientific journal “Issues in Linguistics” is an important periodical that publishes works on theoretical, comparative, and applied linguistics, Kartvelology (Kartvelian studies), Oriental studies, Caucasiology (Caucasian studies), Western European philology, and the history of linguistics. The members of the journal’s editorial board are representatives of the philological department within the Faculty of Humanities, while the editorial council consists of prominent Georgian and foreign linguists. “Issues in Linguistics” has been published at the Faculty of Humanities, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University since 1999. Since 2007, the journal has been published in a new format and with an expanded thematic scope by Tbilisi State University Press. During this period, 17 issues have been published, which are available on the publishing house’s website. The 2025 issue of “Issues in Linguistics” (2025, No. 18, 145 pages) is notable for the thematic diversity of its articles and is dedicated to the problems of phraseology, Kartvelian languages, phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, etymology, lexicology, contrastive linguistic analysis, the deciphering of linear scripts, and dialectology.

 

 

 

Ivane Lezhava

PhD, Head of the Experimental  Phonetics Research Laboratory at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University

 

 

Author Biography

Ivane Lezhava

Ivane Lezhava was born on November 22nd 1944, in Tbilisi. He is a philologist-linguist, an associate professor at the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics of the Faculty of Humanities at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, and the head of the Scientific-Research Laboratory of Experimental Phonetics. He graduated from the Faculty of Cyberne-tics at Tbilisi State University, Department of Structural and Applied Linguistics (1966), and completed postgraduate studies (1969). He earned the degree of Candidate of Philological Sciences (1985). He is currently the editor of the academic periodical journal ‘Issues of Linguistics’ of the TSU Faculty of Humanities (2021-2025). He was awarded the Gold Medal of Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (2024). His scholarly works and presentations address issues in general and experimental phonetics: the study of segmental and supra-segmental units of languages, the identification of phonetic structures, and the analysis of prosodic features using the methods of articulatory, acoustic, and perceptual phonetics. He has conducted experimental-phonetic research on Kartvelian, Caucasian, and Indo-European languages.

 

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Published

2025-12-12

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Lezhava, I. (2025). Editor’s Foreword. Issues of Linguistics, (18). https://doi.org/10.55804/jtsu.15120473.2025.18.14

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No. 18 (2025): Issues of Linguistics

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