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Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2016 10:43:33
From: Thomas Jügel [thomas.jugel at inalco.fr]
Subject: The Function and Semantics of the Perfect in Indo-European Languages

 
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: ling-perfect at lists.uu.se 
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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