“Sprachbünde and Stratified Convergence Zones: Mapping Perfects East and West.” Invited paper presented at the Historical Linguistics Roundtable, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, T
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CURRICULUM VITAE
BRIDGET DRINKA, PROFESSOR Department of English
bridget.drinka@utsa.edu University of Texas at San Antonio
Dept phone: (210) 458-4374
One UTSA Circle
San Antonio, Texas 78249
Ph.D 1990 University of Texas at Austin Specialization in Indo-European historical
linguistics; support areas in sociolinguistics and morphology
Dissertation: The sigmatic aorist in Indo-European: Evidence for the Space-Time Hypothesis Nominated for award as Outstanding Dissertation
M.S 1977 Georgetown University, Washington, D.C Applied linguistics Certificate in
Teaching of English as a Second Language
B.A magna cum laude 1973 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Art History
Phi Beta Kappa; James Scholar Honor Student
Semester in Florence, Italy (Syracuse University) Fall 1972
Professor of Linguistics, September 2012 to present Associate Professor of Linguistics 1998 -
2012 Assistant Professor 1991-1998 Responsible for many of the linguistics courses taught in the department, both at the undergraduate and graduate level Developed a number of senior seminars and graduate courses (Languages in Contact; Research Methods in Historical Linguistics; Historical and Sociolinguistics; Linguistics and Literature; Indo-European Language and Culture; Language and Gender; Grammatical Analysis of Literature) Co-supervisor of Interdisciplinary Graduate Certificate in Linguistics
Co-Director, COLFA Semester in Urbino 2011 to present Designing and supervising all
aspects of the COLFA Semester Abroad Program in Urbino, Italy Instructor in Program
in Spring, 2012, Spring 2015, Spring 2018, Spring 2022
Faculty Research Fellow, Office of the Vice President for Research, Economic Development,
and Knowledge Enterprise Fall 2019 to Spring 2020 Served as a primary point of contact and host for Academy Fellows Speaker Series Organizer of VPREDKE Awards for the Arts and Humanities
Ph.D Graduate Advisor of Record, Department of English August 2005 to August 2007; August
2019 to August 2020 Responsible for overseeing the Ph.D program in English,
Trang 2advising doctoral students, recruitment and retention, and organizing events and seminars in connection with the Ph.D program
M.A Graduate Advisor of Record, Department of English August 2014 to August 2017
Responsible for overseeing the M.A program in English, advising master’s students, recruitment and retention, program review, revision of reading lists, and oversight of the comprehensive examination for the M.A program
Chair, Department of English August 2007 to August 2013
Responsible for the supervision of all operations and activities of the Department: hiring, scheduling, budgeting, supervising committees, strategic planning, etc
University of Missouri-Kansas City Assistant Professor of Linguistics Fall 1990-Spring
1991 Responsible for most linguistics courses taught in the department, both at the
undergraduate and graduate level Developed a new emphasis in the department
(Language) alongside Literature
University of Texas at Austin Lecturer Historical Linguistics Spring, 1989
Assistant Instructor Introductory linguistics (4 semesters).1982-3
University of Texas at Austin Research Assistant for W.P Lehmann Summer 1980
American University, Washington, D.C Teacher of English as a Second Language 1977-79 Italian Embassy, Washington, D.C Office of the Naval Attaché Secretary-translator 1975-76 L'Istituto Americano, Florence, Italy Teacher of English as a Second Language 1973-74
University of Leiden, Netherlands Professor, LOT School June 2020 Taught an intensive
advanced graduate course online on “New Perspectives on Language Contact and Areal Linguistics.”
University of Naples Federico II Visiting Professor English Spring 2019 Taught a short
graduate class on the History of English
Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, September, 2008, as a recipient
of a fully funded JSPS Invitation Fellowship for Research in Japan I took part in a series
of events organized by my colleague, Mariko Higuchi Goto of Kyushu Institute of Technology: lectures at the Kumamoto Prefectural University, at the Fukuoka Cognitive Linguistics Conference, and at Kyoto University, and a workshop presented at the Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association Conference held at Nagoya University, Japan, Sept 13, 2008
University of Osnabrück, Germany Visiting Professor Anglistik Winter 2006-7 Taught a
Hauptseminar on Languages in Contact Lecture at the University of Bonn
Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf, Germany Anglistik III: Englische Sprachwissenschaft
Visiting professor, Spring-Summer 2002, on faculty exchange with Prof Dr Tania Kuteva Team-taught two Hauptseminars on the Evolution of Grammar and Languages
in Contact, and a Proseminar on Morphosyntax Organized an ongoing internet seminar
as well as a videoconference between our HHU students and UTSA students to discuss theoretical issues being studied in the courses at both campuses Gave additional lectures at the Universities of Bonn and Köln
Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia Fulbright Senior Lecturer Fall 1998
Trang 3Taught three large classes on Linguistics, History of English, and American Culture Organized a special internet discussion group between my MSU students and UTSA students Gave several additional lectures at linguistic research seminars and took part
in an international conference organized by MSU Led an American film class and translation class in addition to organized classes
“Excavating Language: Linguistic Connections across Latin, Greek and Modern European Languages.” Colloquium of 12 internationally recognized historical linguists, collaboratively administered by UTSA and the University of Urbino, Italy, April 2022 Co-organizers: Bridget Drinka (Professor of Linguistics, UTSA, Co-Director of the COLFA Semester in Urbino) and Claus Ehrhardt (Professor of German, University of Urbino)
“Language contact in a contact-free language.” Co-applicant for a grant from the Icelandic Research Fund (IRF) for a three-year research project (2021-24) on the role of contact in Icelandic from 1550-1850 PI: Þórhallur Eyþórsson, University of Iceland (Not funded
Reapplication process underway.)
“Contact in the History of Dutch: The Role of Latin influence on the syntax of Early and Late Modern Dutch.” Advisory Board member for project proposal by PI Gijsbert Rutten,
University of Leiden, Netherlands
“Christianity, Christian translation, and language change.” Interdisciplinary Research Project, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INalCO), Paris, France PI: Maria Khachaturian, University of Helsinki
Academy of Distinguished Researchers, UTSA, inducted 2021
COLFA Researcher of the Year 2021 One of six COLFA faculty members awarded for
research
Leonard Bloomfield Book Award, 2019, from the Linguistic Society of America for Language
Contact in Europe: The Periphrastic Perfect through History (2017) Cambridge
University Press,
Richard S Howe Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award, Spring 2016
University of Texas Chancellor’s Council Outstanding Teaching Award, Spring 1999
Faculty Advisor for Sigma Tau Delta English Honor Society, Beta Omega Chapter, which
won national recognition as Outstanding Chapter, March 1998 (1992-98)
Awarded the Friends and Alumni of Indo-European Studies Award for Excellence for the
outstanding paper presented by a junior scholar at the Fourth Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference, May 1992
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B OOKS
Spanish Socio-historical linguistics: Isolation and Contact Whitney Chappell and Bridget
Drinka (eds) 2021 Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics Series Amsterdam: John Benjamins
Historical Linguistics 2017 Selected Papers from the International Conference on Historical
Linguistics 23 Bridget Drinka (ed.) 2020 Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Exploring Universals of Tense and Aspect Vit Bubenik, Bridget Drinka, John Hewson,
Ondřej Šefčík (eds.) 2020 Hamburg: Baar Verlag
Latin Influence on the Syntax of the Languages of Europe Bert Cornillie and Bridget Drinka
(eds.) 2019 Special Issue of Belgian Journal of Linguistics Amsterdam:
John Benjamins
Language Contact in Europe: The Periphrastic Perfect through History Bridget Drinka 2017.
Cambridge University Press Awarded the Leonard Bloomfield Book Award for 2019 by the Linguistic Society of America
Studies in memory of Edgar C Polomé (Vol I of a three-volume memorial collection) Bridget
Drinka (ed.) 2000 Special issue of the American Journal of Germanic Linguistics and
Literatures 12.2
African language and culture in historical perspective: Essays in memory of Edgar C Polomé
(Vol II of three-volume memorial collection.) Bridget Drinka and Derek Nurse (eds.)
2001 Special issue of General Linguistics 38
Indo-European language and culture in historical perspective: Essays in memory of Edgar C.
Polomé (Vol III of three-volume memorial collection; Part 1) Joseph Salmons &
Bridget Drinka (eds) 2003 Special issue of General Linguistics 40.
Indo-European language and culture in historical perspective: Essays in memory of Edgar C.
Polomé (Vol III of three-volume memorial collection; Part 2) Bridget Drinka (ed.).
2004 Special issue of General Linguistics 41.
The sigmatic aorist in Indo-European: evidence for the Space-Time Hypothesis Bridget Drinka
1995 Monograph 13 in the Journal of Indo-European Studies Monograph Series
“The Deep History of English: Using Cognacy and Contact to Enhance Language Learning.” (In
preparation) In: Chiara Cappellaro, Martin Maiden, and Ton Dijkstra (eds.)
Cognateness: Theory and Application Multilingual Matters.
“Expansion of the Perfect in Late Middle and Early Modern English: Motivations and
Explanations” with Joseph Roy (In preparation)
“Macro- and Micro-Analysis in Corpus Linguistics: The Family as a Network in Early Modern
English” with Joseph Roy (In preparation)
Trang 5“Populations in contact: Linguistic, archaeological, and genomic evidence for Indo-European
diffusion” (In press, to appear in 2021) In: Salikoko Mufwene and Anna Maria Escobar
(eds.) The Cambridge Handbook of Language Contact Vol 1 Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press
“New perspectives on Spanish socio-historical linguistics.” Bridget Drinka and Whitney
Chappell 2021 In: Whitney Chappell and Bridget Drinka (eds.) Spanish
Socio-historical linguistics: Isolation and contact Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics
Series Amsterdam: John Benjamins 1-14
“Contact and Early Indo-European in Europe.” 2020 In: Raymond Hickey (ed.) The Handbook
of Language Contact (2nd ed.) Malden, MA / Oxford: Wiley Blackwell 301-321.
“Questioning the Universality of the Perfect.” 2020 In: Vit Bubenik, Bridget Drinka, John
Hewson, and Ondřej Šefčík (eds.) Exploring Universals of Tense and Aspect
Hamburg: Baar Verlag 31-57
“Calquing a quirk: The Perfect in the languages of Europe.” 2020 In: Thomas Jügel and Robert
Crellin (eds.) Perfects in Indo-European Languages and beyond (Current Issues in
Linguistic Theory) Amsterdam: Benjamins 591-613
“Motivating the North-South Continuum: Evidence from the Perfects of Gallo-Romance.”
2020 In: Sam Wolfe and Martin Maiden (eds.) Variation and Change in
Gallo-Romance Grammar Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics Oxford:
Oxford University Press 161- 190
“The Role of Roofing: Latin influence on the development of the perfects in Europe.” 2019
In: Bert Cornillie and Bridget Drinka (eds.) Latin Influence on the Syntax of the
Languages of Europe Special Issue of Belgian Journal of Linguistics Amsterdam:
John Benjamins 125-149
“The Perfects of Eastern ‘Standard Average European’: Byzantine Greek, Old Church Slavonic,
and the role of roofing.” 2019 In: Andrii Danylenko and Motoki Nomachi (eds.) Slavic
on the Language Map of Europe: Historical and Areal-Typological Dimensions (Trends
in Linguistics Studies and Monographs 333) Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton 145-185
“Perfecting the Notion of Sprachbund: Perfects and Resultatives in the ‘Stratified Convergence
Zones’ of Europe.” 2019 In: Michela Cennamo and Claudia Fabrizio (eds.) Historical
Linguistics 2015 Selected Papers from the International Conference on Historical Linguistics 22 Amsterdam: John Benjamins 319- 342.
“Romance Perfects, Aorists, and the role of ‘Aoristic Drift’” 2017 In: Marc Fryd and Pierre
Gianncarli (eds.) Aorists and Perfects: Synchronic and diachronic perspectives
Leiden: Brill 5-24
“Perfects in Contact on the Iberian Peninsula: Ibero-Romance, Arabic, and the Charlemagne
Sprachbund” 2016 In: Alvaro Octavio de Toledo y Huerta and Carlota de Benito Moreno (eds.) En torno a haber: construcciones, usos y variación desde el latín hasta la actualidad, Studia Romanica et Linguistica Series Frankfurt: Peter Lang 281-326 “Phylogenetic and areal models of Indo-European relatedness: The role of contact in
reconstruction.” 2013 In: Patience Epps, John Huehnergard, and Na’ama Pat-El (eds.)
Contact among genetically related languages Special issue of Journal of Language Contact 6: 379-410.
“Sources of Auxiliation in the Perfects of Europe.” 2013 In Freek Van de Velde, Hendrik
Trang 6De Smet, and Lobke Ghesquière (eds.) On multiple source constructions in language
change Special issue of Studies in Language 37.3: 599- 644 Republished in 2015 in
Benjamins Current Topics Vol 79: 129-174
“The Balkan Perfects: Grammaticalization and Contact.” 2012 in Björn Wiemer,
Bernhard Wälchli, and Björn Hansen (eds.) Grammatical replication and borrowability
in language contact The Hague: Mouton 511 - 558.
“The Sacral Stamp of Greek: Periphrastic constructions in New Testament translations of Latin,
Gothic, and Old Church Slavonic.” 2011 In: Eirik Welo (ed.) Indo-European syntax
and pragmatics: Contrastive approaches Oslo Studies in Language 3(3): 41-73.
“Language Contact.” 2010 In: Silvia Luraghi and Vit Bubenik (eds.) The Continuum
Companion to Historcal Linguistics London / New York: Continuum Press 325-45.
“The *-to- / –no- construction of Indo-European: Verbal adjective or past passive participle?”
2009 In: Vit Bubenik, John Hewson, and Sarah Rose (eds.) Grammatical Change in
Indo-European Languages Amsterdam / Phildelphia: John Benjamins 141-58.
“Stratified reconstruction and a new view of the family tree model.” 2009 In: Angela
Marcantonio (ed.) The IE language family: Questions about its status Journal of
Indo-European Studies Monograph Series, No 55 7-1 – 7-39
“The Periphrastic Perfect in Early English: Evidence from the Peterborough Chronicle.”
2007
In: Alex Bergs & Janne Skaffari (eds.) The language of the Peterborough Chronicle.
Frankfurt/M, New York: Peter Lang (Studies in Medieval Language and Literature Series, ed by Jacek Fisiak) 135-162
“The development of the HAVE Perfect: mutual influences of Greek and Latin.” 2007 In: Raúl
Aranovich (ed.) Split auxiliary systems: a cross-linguistic perspective (Typological
Studies in Language 69.) Amsterdam: Benjamins 101-21
“Präteritumschwund: Evidence for areal diffusion.” 2004 In: Werner Abraham (ed.)
Focus on Germanic typology [Studia Typologica 6] Berlin: Akademie Verlag 211-40.
“Areal factors in the development of the European periphrastic perfect.” 2003 Word 54.1: 1-38.
“The development of the perfect in Indo-European: Stratigraphic evidence for prehistoric areal
influence.” 2003 In: Henning Andersen (ed.), Language contacts in prehistory: Studies
in Stratigraphy Amsterdam: Benjamins 77-105.
“The formation of periphrastic perfects and passives in Europe: An areal approach.” 2003 In:
Barry Blake & Kate Burridge, eds Historical Linguistics 2001 Ed by Barry Blake.
Amsterdam / Philadelphia: Benjamins 105-28
“Alignment in Early Proto-Indo-European.” 1999 Language Change and Typological
Variation: Papers in Honor of Winfred P Lehmann on the Occasion of his 82 nd Birthday
Vol II: Grammatical Universals and Typology Ed by Carol F Justus and Edgar C Polomé Monograph 31, Journal of Indo-European Studies Monograph Series 462-98
“The evolution of grammar: Evidence from Indo-European perfects.” 1998 In Historical
Linguistics 1997 Ed by Monika S Schmid, Jennifer R Austin, and Dieter Stein.
Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins 117-133
“Thoughts on reconstructing prehistoric languages.” 1998 Modes of Inquiry: Voices of
Scholars Across the Fields of Study Ed by Marian Martinello, Gillian Cook, and Linda
Woodson Carrollton, TX: Alliance Press 113-116
“Areal linguistics in prehistory: Evidence from Indo-European aspect.” 1995 Historical
Linguistics 1993 Ed by Henning Andersen Amsterdam: Benjamins 143-158.
Trang 7“The dispersion of Indo-European dialects: Clues from morphology.” 1993 Word 44: 413-29.
“Lachmann's Law: A phonological solution.”1991 Indogermanische Forschungen 96: 52-74.
“Chronological stratification and the origin of the lengthened grade in the Sanskrit s-aorist.”
1991 In Proceedings of the Mid-America Linguistics Conference, University of Kansas,
Oct 1990 ed by Frances Ingemann 71-76.
“The chronology of phonological change.” 1990 Research guide on language change Ed by
Edgar Polomé Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter 107-136
“Evidence for the space-time hypothesis: The s-aorist.” 1988 Journal of Indo-European
Studies 16: 235-65.
“The interaction of morphophonemic and syntactic processes in casual American English.”
1982 Texas Linguistic Forum Department of Linguistics, University of Texas
at Austin 21: 239-49
Review 2008 Björn Wiemer and Markus Giger Resultativa in den nordslavischen und
baltischen Sprachen (areale und grammatikalisierungstheoretische Gesichtspunkte) In: Studies in Language 32: 476-82.
Review article 2006 Karlene Jones-Bly, Martin E Huld, Angela Della Volpe, Miriam Robbins
Dexter (eds.) Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference Journal of Indo-European Monograph Series, No 50 In: Journal of Indo-European
Studies 34: 236-46.
Review article 2006 Thomas Cravens, ed 2005 Variation and Reconstruction In: Journal of
Indo-European Studies 34: 246-55.
Review article 2005 Jay Jasanoff Hittite and the Indo-European Verb 2003 Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press In: Journal of Indo-European Studies 33: 169-80.
Review 2004 Olga Fischer, Ans van Kemenade, Willem Koopman, Wim van der Wurff
2000 The Syntax of Early English Cambridge: Cambridge University Press In:
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 14: 294-5
Review 2003 Mark Southern, ed 2002 European Perspectives (Journal of
Indo-European Studies Monograph 43) In: Journal of Indo-Indo-European Studies 31: 246- 52 Review 2002 Philip Baldi 1999 The Foundations of Latin (1999) Journal of Indo-European
Studies 30: 188-95.
Review article 2002 Östen Dahl, ed 2000 Tense and Aspect in the Languages of Europe
Berlin/ New York: Mouton de Gruyter In: Journal of Indo-European Studies 29:
29-40
Review 2002 Ernst Håkon Jahr, ed 1998 Language Change: Advances in Historical
Sociolinguistics Berlin/ New York: Mouton de Gruyter In: Journal of Indo-European Studies Vol 29: 40 – 45.
Review 2002 Georgios K Giannakis 1997 Studies in the Syntax and Semantics of the
Reduplicated Presents of Homeric Greek and Indo-European Innsbruck: Institut für
Sprachwissenschaft (Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft Bd 90) In: Journal
of Indo-European Studies Vol 29: 45-48.
“Perfecting the Notion of Sprachbund: Periphrastic Perfects in the ‘Stratified Convergence
Trang 8Zones’ of Europe.” Paper to be presented at Indiana University, October 15, 2021.
“Perfects and Resultatives in the Circum-Baltic ‘Stratified Convergence Zone’: The Role of the
Hansa.” Paper to be presented online at the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center at
Hokkaido
University, Japan, Oct 8, 2021
“Language as Legacy: The Linguistic Roots of African American Memory.” Paper which was to
be presented at the Symposium “African American Memory” at the University of Toulouse, March 12-13, 2020 (Not presented due to COVID travel ban)
“The Deep History of English: Using Cognacy and Contact to Enhance Language Learning.”
Paper presented at the workshop “‘Not so Foreign’: Creating Bridges across
Languages.” Somerville College, Oxford January 11-12, 2020
“Perfects in Contact on the Iberian Peninsula.” Paper presented at the panel “Latinization
Tendencies in Spanish.” KU-Leuven, Leuven, Belgium June 15, 2019
“Sprachbünde and Stratified Convergence Zones: Mapping Perfects East and West.” Invited
paper presented at the Historical Linguistics Roundtable, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas April 5, 2019
“Romance Perfects and the Charlemagne Sprachbund.” Lecture presented at the University of
Naples Federico II, Naples May 4, 2018
“Perfects Old and New: The Development of the Perfects in Early and Modern Indo-European
Languages.” Lecture presented at the Workshop on Conceptual Representations and Grammatical Categories University of Pisa May 2-3, 2018
“The Sacral Stamp of Greek: Periphrastic Constructions in New Testament Translations of Latin,
Gothic, and Old Church Slavonic.” Panel presentation as part of the Interdisciplinary Research Project on “Christianity, Christian translation, and language change.” Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INalCO), Paris, April 13, 2018
“The Roofing Effect of Religion: The Development of Perfects, East and West” Lecture
presented at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris,
April 12, 2018
“Romance Perfects in the Charlemagne Sprachbund.” Lecture presented at the University of
Pisa, December 16, 2016
“Alignment, Diathesis & Aspect: The Development of the Perfects & Middles in Early
Indo-European.” Lecture presented at the University of Pisa, December 15, 2016
“Calquing a Quirk: The Perfect in the Languages of Europe.” Paper presented at the
symposium “The Perfect in Indo-European languages.” Uppsala, Sweden September 29-October 1, 2016
“Questioning the Universality of the Perfect.” Paper presented at the colloquium “Towards
Universals in Tense and Aspect.” Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, June
22-24, 2016
“Chronologizing the European Perfects: HAVE and BE in the Charlemagne Sprachbund.” Paper
presented at the “Symposium on Perfect Auxiliaries in the Languages of Europe.” Copenhagen, June 9-10, 2016
“Perfecting the Notion of Sprachbund: Perfects and Resultatives in the ‘Stratified Convergence
Zones’ of Europe.” Plenary lecture presented at the 22nd International Conference on Historical Linguistics in Naples, Italy July 2015
“Alignment, Diathesis, and Aspect in Early Indo-European: Contributions of Romano
Trang 9Lazzeroni.” Paper presented at the 22nd International Conference on Historical
Linguistics in Naples, Italy July 2015
“Oblique Possessors as Subjects in the Perfects of the Circum-Baltic ‘Stratified Convergence
Zone’" Paper presented at Workshop on “Case, Argument Structure and Syntactic Reconstruction.” Sognefjord, Norway, June 11-13, 2015
“The Roofing Effects of Greek and Latin on the Perfects of Eastern and Western Europe” Invited
lecture presented at the University of Heidelberg May 6, 2014
“Romance Perfects and the Charlemagne Sprachbund.” Invited lecture presented at Oxford
University, May 1, 2014
“The Role of Latin and Greek in the Development of European Verb Morphology.” Invited
lecture presented at the University of Leuven, April 29, 2014
“Mapping Perfects, East and West.” Invited lecture presented at the University of Ghent,
April 26, 2014
“The Periphrastic Perfect: East and West.” Invited lecture presented at the Università per
Stranieri di Siena, April 23, 2014
“Standard Average European East and West: The Role of Greek and Latin as Roof Languages”
Invited lecture given at the Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, October 18, 2013
“The Charlemagne Sprachbund: Evidence from the Romance & Germanic Perfects.” Invited
lecture given at the Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, October 18, 2013 “Evolutionary Models and Language Contact in Indo-European.” Invited lecture given at the
Second Pavia International Summer School for Indo-European Linguistics Pavia, Italy September 9-14, 2013
"The Role of Contact in Language Change: The Puzzle of the Periphrastic Perfects" Invited
plenary lecture at the Conference of the Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States, York University, Toronto, Canada August 8-11, 2012
“The -to/no- Construction in IE: Verbal Adjective or Participle?” Invited lecture given at the
Univerisità di Roma “La Sapienza”, May 25, 2011
“Romance Perfects: Centrality and Peripherality.” Invited lecture given at the Università degli
Studi di Napoli Federico II, May 23, 2011
“Alignment in Early Indo-European.” Invited lecture given at the International Seminar
“Sistemi di allineamento in lingue indoeuropee e non indoeuropee dal Vicino Oriente all’India” at the Università degli Studi di Pavia, May 21, 2011 and at the Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, May 24, 2011
“The Sacral Stamp of Greek” Invited lecture given at the Università per Stranieri di Siena, Italy
May 16, 2011
“Stratified Reconstruction and a New View of the Family Tree Model.” Invited lecture given at
the University of Bergen, March 13, 2009
“Cladistic and Acladistic Reconstruction: Implications for Indo-European.” Invited lecture
given at the University of Oslo, March 11, 2009
“The Rise of the Present Perfect in Late Middle and Early Modern English” Invited lecture given
at the Prefectural University of Kumamoto, Japan Sept 5, 2008
“Language Contact in Europe: The Present Perfect in Diachronic Perspective” Invited lecture
given at Kyoto University, Japan, Sept 12, 2008
“The Role of Stratification in Indo-European Morphological Reconstruction.” Invited lecture
given at the University of Bonn, January 8, 2007
Trang 10“Language Contact in Diachronic Perspective: The European Perfect” Invited lecture given at
the Sorbonne, Paris February 22, 2006
“The Development of the Periphrastic Perfect in Europe.” Invited lecture given to the
University of Texas Linguistic Circle, Austin, Texas, Nov 4, 2005
“The Development of the Indo-European Perfect: Evidence for Areal Influence” Invited lecture
given at the University of Cologne, July 8, 2002
“Periphrastic Perfects and Passives in Europe: An Areal Analysis” Invited lecture given at
Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, July 1, 2002
“Indo-European Verbal Adjectives: Periphrastic Perfects and Passives in the Proto-language?”
Invited lecture given at Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelms University, Bonn, June 27, 2002
“The Origin and Development of the Present Perfect: An Areal Approach” Invited lecture
presented at the University of Alaska—Anchorage, September, 2001
“Alignment in Proto-Indo-European: Arguments from Typology.” Invited lecture presented to
the Moscow Typology Seminar at Moscow State University, Department of Linguistics, December 9, 1998
“Proto-Indo-European: Active or Accusative? An Analysis of the Approaches of Klimov,
Gamkrelidze & Ivanov, and Lehmann.” Invited lecture presented to the Indo-European Seminar, Moscow State University, November 12, 1998
“On Alignment: Arguments from Typology.” Invited lecture presented at the Institüt für
Afrikanistik, University of Cologne, Germany, December 19, 1998, and at the Sprachwissenschaftliches Institüt, University of Bonn, Germany, December 21, 1998
“The Sacral Stamp of Greek: Periphrastic Constructions in New Testament Translations of Latin,
Gothic, and Old Church Slavonic.” Paper to be presented at SLE2021 (online conference
of the Societas Linguistica Europaea) August, 2021
“Reassessing the Indo-European data: An integrated approach.” Paper presented at SLE2020
(online conference of the Societas Linguistica Europaea) August, 2020
“Updating the Notion of Sprachbund: Perfects and Resultatives in the Circum-Baltic ‘Stratified
Convergence Zone.’” Paper presented at the 52nd Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea Leipzig, Germany August 21-24, 2019
“Motivating the North-South Continuum: Evidence from the Perfects of Gallo-Romance.” Paper
presented at the 24th Meeting of the International Conference on Historical Linguistics Canberra, Australia July 1-5, 2019
“The Roofing Effect of Religion on Perfects, East and West.” Paper presented at “Linguists’
Day” of the Belgian Society of Linguistics Brussels, Belgium June 13, 2019
“Motivating the North-South Continuum: Evidence from the Perfects of Franco-Provençal,
Occitan, and Catalan” Paper presented at the 51st Meeting of the Societas
Linguistica Europaea Tallinn, Estonia, Aug 29-Sept 1, 2018
“Mapping Perfects East and West.” Plenary Lecture presented at the 20th International
Congress of Linguists Cape Town, South Africa July 2-6, 2018
“Sprachbünde and Stratified Convergence Zones: Perfects East and West.” Paper presented at
the Historical Sociolinguistics Network (HiSoN) Conference Leiden, Netherlands