About the Author

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Irina Lobzhanidze is Professor of Linguistics at Ilia State University, Georgia, where she is also the Director of MA program in Applied linguistics. She received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from Ilia State University, Georgia. She held visiting Georgian studies fellow position at the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies (2019-2020). Her main research interests lie in the areas of morphology and syntax, and their interface. She has worked extensively on developing language processing tools and resources for Georgian, including the morphological analyzer and generator of Georgian. She is the Linguistic Coordinator of the Georgian Language Corpus (GLC), a co-author of the Dictionary of Idioms (2014-2017) and the Principal Re-searcher in the construction of the Wardrops' Collection Online (WCO). Previously, Irina conducted research on various aspects of Georgian idioms and degree of their "frozenness".