Aronson Howard Isaac

Aronson (Howard Isaac, b. 1936) is an American linguist and professor at the University of Chicago, specializing in general linguistics and Slavic languages. Since the 1960s, he has been working in Georgian linguistics. He authored a practical Georgian grammar exercise book called "Georgian: A Reading Grammar" (Chicago, 1982). His significant contributions to Georgian linguistics include formal and semantic analyses of verbs and nouns. Notable among his works are "Formal Analysis of Georgian Cases" (1969), "Towards a semantic analysis of case and subject in Georgian" (1970), "Some notes on relative clauses in Georgian" (1972), "Grammatical Subject in Old Georgian" (1976), "On the status of version as a grammatical category in Georgian" (1982). Aronson also teaches Georgian language at the University of Chicago and has mentored several Georgian linguists (Kartvelologists). He initiated conferences in Chicago (1979, 1983, 1987, 1990, and 1993) dedicated to the structural analysis of non-Slavic languages in former Soviet republics.

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