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

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at the

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. 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

linguistics Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning), Morphology (linguistics), morphology (structure of words), phonetics (speech sounds ...

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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