Kevin Tuite ( Irish: ''Caoimhín de Tiúit''; born April 3, 1954) is a full

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at the

Université de Montréal The Université de Montréal (UdeM; ; translates to University of Montreal) is a French-language public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university's main campus is located in the Côte-des-Neiges neighborhood of Côte- ...

. He is a citizen of both Canada and Ireland.Official CV
Université de Montréal His special interest is in Caucasian linguistics, and he has occasionally published on the topic of

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Biography

Tuite was born 3 April 1954, in

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, USA. He received a BA in

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from

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in 1976, and a Ph.D. in

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from the

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in 1988. His

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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

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Books

*'' Kartvelian 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.
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External links

Official webpage at Université de MontréalOfficial CV at Université de Montréal
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