Chair of the Armenian Language History and General Linguistics

The Chair of the Armenian Language History and General Linguistics was established in June 2022 based on the Chairs of the Armenian language history and general linguistics.

In different years, the Chair of the History of the Armenian Language was headed by outstanding linguists such as Hovh. Barseghyan, M. Asatryan, R. Ghazaryan, R. Sakapetoyan.Academician Grigor Ghapantsyan was the first head of the chair of general linguistics, then it was led by academicians Hrachya Acharyan, Ed. Aghayan, H. Petrosyan, L. Hovsepyan, and other devotees.

The lecturers of the Department of History of the Armenian Language and General Linguistics have published and continue to publish university textbooks, manuals, monographs, dictionaries, and various articles. Those valuable scientific works published over the decades, continuing the contributions to classical Armenology, have enriched modern Armenian linguistics.

The research fields of the chair include the historical development of the Armenian language, the grammatical structure of Grabar, Middle Literary Armenian, dialects, the study of the language of ancient manuscripts, Grabar-Eastern Armenian, Middle Armenian-Eastern Armenian transposition, historical lexicography, comparative grammar, theory, and history of linguistics, linguistic semiotics, languages typological and comparative examination, as well as new fields: computer linguistics, formal description of the language, automatic translation, linguistic support of information technologies and many other issues.

The chair's specialists actively participate in the scientific sessions and conferences organized in the republic and abroad making various presentations as well.

The annually organized faculty and inter-faculty Olympiads entitled "The Best Specialist in Grabar (Ancient Armenian)" have become a tradition in the Chair.

The chair offers "The Armenian Language and Literature" Undergraduate and Master's (full-time and part-time) educational programs.