Abstract
Language contact, language death, and linguistic theory
Petar Kehayov
The communication between research on the structural aspects of language death (of indigenous languages), language-contact research, and general linguistic theory has been relatively poor. This might seem surprising, considering that the rapid extinction of minority languages – often with “valuable” typological profiles – is in vogue these days; such reduced languages can be a good test environment e.g. of hypotheses validated in more stable contact situations. On the other hand, there are objective reasons for the lack of exchange of evidence-and-speculation between these domains of inquiry. In this talk, I will discuss the prospects for exchange between research on structural language death in indigenous communities, language contact and general linguistic theory (theory developed not for the purpose of explaining phenomena in language contact and obsolescence). The discussion will be based on my research on structural phenomena in the final stage of language obsolescence (Kehayov 2017).
Kehayov, Petar 2017. The Fate of Mood and Modality in Language Death: Evidence from Minor Finnic. (based on habilitation thesis, 2016, Faculty of Languages and Literatures at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich). Trends in Linguistics. Berlin – Boston: De Gruyter Mouton.
Academic CV
Personal information
| Name |
Petar Kehayov |
| Born |
1972, Sofia |
| Email |
petar.kehayov@ur.de |
Education
| 2013 – 2016 |
Habilitation, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Finno-Ugric linguistics (Thesis: The Fate of Mood and Modality in Language Death: Evidence from Minor Finnic. Faculty of Languages and Literatures at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich 27.04.2016) |
| 2004 – 2008 |
Ph.D., University of Tartu, Estonian linguistics, General linguistics (Thesis: An Areal-Typological Perspective to Evidentiality: the Cases of the Balkan and Baltic Linguistic Areas) |
| 2000 – 2003 |
M.A., University of Tartu, Estonian linguistics, General linguistics |
| 1995 – 2000 |
B.A., University of Tartu, Estonian as a foreign language / Finno-Ugric linguistics |
Academic positions
| 2016 – |
Affiliated research fellow at the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich / University of Regensburg (An Excellence Initiative of the German Federal and State Governments) |
| 2013 – 2016 |
Postdoctoral fellow at the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich / University of Regensburg (An Excellence Initiative of the German Federal and State Governments) |
| 2004 – 2011 |
Researcher at the Institute of Estonian and General Linguistics, University of Tartu |
| 2006 – 2007 |
Associate researcher at the Graduate School of Linguistics and Language Technology of the University of Tartu |
| 2003 – 2004 |
Specialist of study at the Department of Estonian and Finno-Ugric Linguistics, University of Tartu |
Scholarships
| 2011 – 2012 |
Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers, Institute for Slavic Studies, University of Regensburg |
| 2005 – 2006 |
Government of Flanders Scholarship for Doctoral Students, Center for Grammar, Cognition and Typology, University of Antwerp |
| 2002 – 2003 |
Student grant provided by Soros Supplementary Grant Programme |
| 2000 – 2001 |
Student grant provided by Soros Supplementary Grant Programme |
| 1997 – 1998 |
Exchange student at the University of Oulu, Finland |
| 1994 |
Summer school of Finnish in Helsinki |
| 1993 |
Summer school of Finnish in Kuopio |
Publications
Books
| Kehayov, Petar 2017. The Fate of Mood and Modality in Language Death: Evidence from Minor Finnic. Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs 307. De Gruyter Mouton). |
| Ehala, Martin; Habicht, Külli; Kehayov, Petar; Zabrodskaja, Anastassia 2012. Keel ja ühiskond. [Language and Society.] Tallinn: Künnimees. (A textbook for Estonian high schools; three editions as of December 2016.) |
| Kehayov, Petar 2008. An Areal-Typological Perspective to Evidentiality: the Cases of the Balkan and Baltic Linguistic Areas. Dissertationes Linguisticae Universitatis Tartuensis 10. Tartu: Tartu Ülikool, 201 pages. |
Edited volumes
| Boye, Kasper; Kehayov, Petar (eds.) 2016. Complementizer Semantics in European Languages. (Empirical Approaches to Language Typology 57.) Berlin – Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 894 pages. |
Peer-reviewed articles
| Skribnik, Elena; Kehayov, Petar (in print). Evidentials in Uralic languages. In Aikhenvald, Alexandra Yu. (ed.) 2017, Oxford Handbook of Evidentiality. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Kehayov, Petar; Boye, Kasper 2016. Complementizer semantics – an introduction. In Boye, Kasper; Kehayov, Petar (eds.) 2016, Complementizer Semantics in European Languages. (Empirical Approaches to Language Typology 57.) Berlin – Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 1–11. |
| Kehayov, Petar; Boye, Kasper 2016. Complementizer semantics in European languages: Overview and generalizations. In Boye, Kasper; Kehayov, Petar (eds.) 2016, Complementizer Semantics in European Languages. (Empirical Approaches to Language Typology 57.) Berlin – Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 809–878. |
| Kehayov, Petar 2016. Complementation marker semantics in Finnic (Estonian, Finnish, Karelian). In Boye, Kasper; Kehayov, Petar (eds.) 2016, Complementizer Semantics in European Languages. (Empirical Approaches to Language Typology 57.) Berlin – Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 449–497. |
| Kehayov, Petar; Vihman, Virve 2014. The lure of lability: A synchronic and diachronic investigation of the labile pattern in Estonian. In Kulikov, Leonid; Lavidas, Nikolaos (eds.) 2014, Typology of Labile Verbs: Focus on Diachrony. Special issue of: Linguistics: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Language Sciences 52(4), 1061–1105. |
| Kehayov, Petar; Saar, Eva; Norvik, Miina; Karjus, Andres 2013. Hääbuva kesklüüdi murde jälgedel suvel 2012. [In the footsteps of vanishing Central Lude in summer 2012.] Emakeele Seltsi aastaraamat [Yearbook of the Mother Tongue Society] 58, 58–101. |
| Kehayov, Petar; Metslang, Helle; Pajusalu, Karl 2012. Evidentiality in Livonian. Linguistica Uralica 2012/1, 41–54. |
| Kehayov, Petar; Lindström, Liina; Niit, Ellen 2011. Imperative in interrogatives in Estonian (Kihnu), Latvian and Livonian. Linguistica Uralica 2011/2, 81–93. |
| Blokland, Rogier; Kehayov, Petar 2010. Vene keele mõjust eesti keeles. Tagasivaateid ja perspektiive. [The Russian influence in Estonian. Hindsights and outlooks.] Eesti ja soome-ugri keeleteaduse ajakiri (ESUKA) / Journal of Estonian and Finno-Ugric Linguistics (JEFUL) 2010/2. Tartu: Tartu University Press, 35–54. |
| van der Auwera, Johan; Kehayov, Petar; Vittrant, Alice 2009. Acquisitive modals. In Hogeweg, Lotte; de Hoop, Helen; Malchukov, Andrei (eds.) 2009, Cross-linguistic Semantics of Tense, Aspect, and Modality. (Linguistik Actuell/Linguistics Today 148.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 271–302. |
| Kehayov, Petar 2009. Interactions between grammatical evidentials and lexical markers of epistemicity and evidentiality: a case-study of Bulgarian and Estonian. In Plungian, Vladimir; Wiemer, Björn (eds.) 2009, Lexikalische Evidenzialitäts-Marker in slavischen Sprachen. (Wiener Slawistischer Almanach, Sonderband 72.) München – Wien: Otto Sagner, 165–201. |
| Kehayov, Petar 2009. Taboo intensifiers as polarity items: evidence from Estonian. Language Typology and Universals. Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung (STUF) 2009/1–2, 140–164. |
| Kehayov, Petar 2009. Olema-verbi ellipsist eesti kirjakeeles. [On the ellipsis of olema ‘to be’ in Written Estonian.] Emakeele Seltsi aastaraamat [Yearbook of the Mother Tongue Society] 54. Tartu: Eesti Teaduste Akadeemia, 107–152. |
| Kehayov, Petar; Torn-Leesik, Reeli 2009. Modal verbs in Balto-Finnic. In Hansen, Björn; de Haan, Ferdinand (eds.) 2009, Modals in the Languages of Europe. (Empirical Approaches to Language Typology 44.) Berlin – New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 363–401. |
| Kehayov, Petar; Blokland, Rogier 2007. Mittesufiksaalne deminutiivituletus eesti keeles. [Non-suffixal diminutive derivation in Estonian.] Emakeele Seltsi aastaraamat [Yearbook of the Mother Tongue Society] 52. Tartu: Eesti Teaduste Akadeemia, 87–124. |
| Kehayov, Petar 2004. Eesti keele evidentsiaalsussüsteem mõne teise keele taustal. Semantika. [The Estonian evidentiality system in contrast with some other evidentiality systems. Semantics.] Keel ja Kirjandus [Language and Literature] 2004/12. Tallinn. SA Kultuurileht, 895–914. |
| Kehayov, Petar 2004. Eesti keele evidentsiaalsussüsteem mõne teise keele taustal. Morfosüntaks ja distributsioon. [The Estonian evidentiality system in contrast with some other evidentiality systems. Morphosyntax and distribution.] Keel ja Kirjandus [Language and Literature] 2004/11. Tallinn. SA Kultuurileht, 812–829. |
| Kehayov, Petar 2002. Typology of Grammaticalized Evidentiality in Bulgarian and Estonian. Linguistica Uralica 2002/2, 126–144. |
Non-peer-reviewed articles
| Kehayov, Petar; Siegl, Florian 2007. The evidential past participle in Estonian reconsidered. Études finno-ougriennes 38, 75–117. |
| Kehayov, Petar 2004. Lauseliigenduse printsiipe bulgaaria keele normatiivses grammatikas. [Syntactic relation tagging principles in Bulgarian normative grammar.] In Lindström, Liina (ed.) 2004, Lauseliikmeist eesti keeles [About Syntactic Relations in Estonian]. (Tartu Ülikooli eesti keele õppetooli preprindid 1.) Tartu: Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus, 26–33. |
| Kehayov, Petar 2002. Eesti keel ja makedoonia keel: arenguloolisi paralleele. [Estonian and Macedonian: sociohistorical resemblances.] Võro Instituudi Toimõndusõq [Publications of Võru Institute] 14. Võru: Võru Instituut, 13–26. |
Reviews
| Kehayov, Petar 2006. Uurimus eesti kirjakeele vene laensõnadest [A study on Russian loanwords in Literary Estonian.] (Rogier Blokland. The Russian Loanwords in Literary Estonian. Groningen: University of Groningen, 2005. 670 pp.). Keel ja Kirjandus [Language and Literature] 2006/10. Tallinn. SA Kultuurileht, 844–846. |
Published activity reports
| Kehayov, Petar 2016. Studiengruppe Migration, Transfer, Kulturkontakt. In Schulze Wessel, Martin; Brunnbauer, Ulf (eds.) 2016, Jahresbericht 2015 der Graduiertenschule für Ost- und Südosteuropastudien. München – Regensburg: Graduiertenschule für Ost- und Südosteuropastudien. |
| Kehayov, Petar 2014. Grammars in Language Death: The Fate of Mood-and-Modality in Obsolescent Finnic. In Schulze Wessel, Martin; Brunnbauer, Ulf (eds.) 2014, Neue Impulse für die Area Studies. Jahresbericht 2012/2013 der Graduiertenschule für Ost- und Südosteuropastudien. München – Regensburg: Graduiertenschule für Ost- und Südosteuropastudien, 5–9. |
Research interest
General
language contact
morphosyntactic typology
the relation between genealogical affiliation, areal affiliation and typological similarity
structural processes in language decay
linguistic complexity (structural and cognitive)
“20°–35° E meridian linguistics”
Finnic languages
linguistic areas and convergence phenomena in Northeastern Europe
the Balkan linguistic area
weird structural effects of language planning
Grammatical domains
mood and modality
‘proposition’ vs. ‘state-of-affairs’ distinction
evidentiality
clausal complementation
deixis (personal, spatial, temporal)
valency alternation
negative and positive polarity items
