Kevin Tuite (
Irish: ''Caoimhín de Tiúit''; born April 3, 1954) is a full
Professor
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of
Anthropology
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at the
Université de Montréal
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. He is a citizen of both Canada and Ireland.
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Université de Montréal His special interest is in
Caucasian linguistics, and he has occasionally published on the topic of
Georgian mythology
Georgian mythology ( ka, ქართული მითოლოგია, tr) refers to the mythology of pre-Christian Georgians ( /kʌrtˈvɛliənz/; Georgian: ქართველები, romanized: kartvelebi, pronounced ʰɑrtʰvɛ ...
.
Biography
Tuite was born 3 April 1954, in
South Bend, Indiana
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, USA. He received a BA in
chemical engineering
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from
Northwestern University
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Charte ...
in 1976, and a Ph.D. in
linguistics
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from the
University of Chicago
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in 1988. His
doctoral thesis
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was "Number agreement and morphosyntactic orientation in the Kartvelian languages". From 1991 on, he has been a member of the faculty at Université de Montréal: ''professeur adjoint'' 1991–1996, ''professeur agrégé'' 1996–2002, ''professeur titulaire'' 2002–present. From 2010 through 2014 he was the Chair of Caucasian studies at
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
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The un ...
.
Books
*''
Kartvelian Kartvelian may refer to:
* Anything coming from or related to Georgia (country)
* Kartvelian languages
* Kartvelian alphabet, see Georgian alphabet
* Kartvelian studies
* Georgians
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Morphosyntax. Number agreement and morphosyntactic orientation in the South Caucasian languages.'' (Studies in Caucasian Linguistics, 12). München: Lincom Europa. 1998
* ''
Svan'' (Languages of the World / Materials, vol. 139). München: Lincom Europa, 1997.
*''An anthology of Georgian folk poetry.'' Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1994.
WorldCat item record
References
External links
Official webpage at Université de Montréal
Official CV at Université de Montréal
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1954 births
Linguists from the United States
Linguists from Canada
Canadian anthropologists
Kartvelian studies scholars
Svan language
Université de Montréal faculty
People from South Bend, Indiana
Living people
20th-century linguists
20th-century American anthropologists
21st-century linguists
21st-century American anthropologists