The Function and Semantics of the Perfect in Indo-European Languages

*Presentations on specific languages and groups*
Anatolian	Prof. Dr. Silvia Luraghi (together with Guglielmo Inglese) University of Pavia	website	abstract
Aramaic in contact with Indo-European	Prof. Dr. Geoffrey Khan University of Cambridge	website	abstract
Armenian (Classical)	PD Dr. Daniel Kölligan University of Cologne, Dept. of Linguistics - Comparative Philology	website	abstract
Baltic and Slavic	Prof. Dr. Björn Wiemer Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz, Institut für Slavistik Turkologie und zirkumbaltische Studien	website	abstract
	Dr. Peter Arkadiev (Senior researcher) Russian Academy of Sciences/Moscow, Institute of Slavic Studies	website
Celtic and Albanian	Prof. Dr. Stefan Schumacher University of Vienna, Department of Linguistics	website	abstract
Gothic and Western Germanic	Prof. Dr. Michail L. Kotin University of Zielona Góra, Institute of German Philology, Department of Grammar and History of the German Language		abstract
Greek	Prof. Eva-Carin Gerö Stockholm University, Department of Romance and Classical Studies	website
Iranian	Dr. Thomas Jügel LabEx INaLCO/Paris, UMR "Mondes iranien et indien"	website	abstract
Latin	Dr. Robert Crellin	website	abstract
Latin to Romance	Prof. Dr. Daniel Jacob University of Freiburg	website	abstract
Tocharian	Dr. Ilja A. Seržant University of Leipzig	website	abstract
Vedic	Dr. Eystein Dahl UiT – The Arctic University of Norway	website	abstract

*Presentations from a typological perspective*
Development of the perfect within Indo-European verbal systems	Prof. Dr. Martin Joachim Kümmel Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Chair of Indo-European Studies	website	abstract
Indo-European Perfects in Typological Perspective	Prof. em. Dr. Östen Dahl Stockholm University, Department of Linguistics	website	abstract
The Perfect in the Languages of Europe	Prof. Dr. Bridget Drinka University of Texas at San Antonio	website	abstract
Swedish from a typological persepctive	Prof. em. Dr. Åke Viberg Uppsala University	website	abstract
The Perfect as a Rhetorical Device	Dr. Stephen H. Levinsohn SIL International, Senior Linguistics Consultant	website	abstract

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