LINGUIST List 27.2608
Wed Jun 15 2016
Confs: Indo-European, Historical Ling, Typology/Sweden
Editor for this issue: Ashley Parker <ashleylinguistlist.org>
Date: 15-Jun-2016
From: Thomas Jügel <thomas.jugel
inalco.fr>
Subject: The Function and Semantics of the Perfect in Indo-European Languages
E-mail this message to a friend The Function and Semantics of the Perfect in Indo-European Languages
Date: 29-Sep-2016 - 01-Oct-2016
Location: Uppsala, Sweden
Contact: Robert Crellin, Carina Jahani, Thomas Jügel
Contact Email:
< click here to access email > Meeting URL:
http://www2.lingfil.uu.se/perfect/index.html
Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Typology
Language Family(ies): Indo-European
Meeting Description:
The perfect occupies a special place within the verb systems of the world's languages. It typically expresses features associated with tense, aspect, and aktionsart. As such, the perfect defies reduction to explanation within the parameters of a single grammatical category. It is this tendency that makes the perfect so difficult to define on the one hand, and leads on the other to diverse developments in its function and semantics.
The symposium ''The Perfect in Indo-European Languages'' will discuss the semantics and function of the perfect for the Indo-European languages, analyse its development, and discuss those characteristics that are shared by IE languages at its various stages of attestation. As a result we aim to give a synchronic and diachronic typological overview of the grammatical category for related languages. This will also involve discussion of the question of the functional and semantic range of the Proto-Indo-European perfect.
Note:
This is a symposium with invited speakers. We welcome everybody who is interested to attend.
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