biographie
Personal information
Name Petar Kehayov
Date of birth 22.05.1972
Place of birth Sofia, Bulgaria
Education
| 1979 – 1990 | primary and secondary education, Sofia (Bulgaria) |
| 1992 – 1993 | studies in medieval history and Finnish, University of Sofia (interrupted) |
| 1995 – 2000 | B.A., University of Tartu, Estonian as a foreign language / Uralic linguistics |
| 2000 – 2003 | M.A., University of Tartu, Estonian linguistics |
| 2004 – 2008 | Ph.D., University of Tartu, Estonian linguistics |
Academic positions
| 2003 – 2004 | Specialist of study at the Department of Estonian and Finno-Ugric Linguistics, University of Tartu |
| 2006 – 2007 | Associate researcher at the Graduate School of Linguistics and Language Technology of the University of Tartu |
| 2004 – 2012 | Researcher at the Institute of Estonian and General Linguistics, University of Tartu |
Academic training
| 2005 | Joint seminar of Ph.D. students of the University of Tartu, Tallinn University of Technology and Tallinn University (Ihaste, Estonia) |
| 2007 | Spring School on Grammaticalization and Typology organized by Graduate School of Linguistics and Language Technology of the University of Tartu and Tallinn University Doctoral School of Humanities (Rakvere, Estonia) |
| 2007 | Summer school of the Graduate School of Linguistics and Language Technology of University of Tartu (Haanja, Estonia) |
| 2007 | Summer School on Linguistic Methodology organized by Societas Linguistica Europea (Campobasso, Italy) |
Scholarships
| 1997 – 1998 | Exchange student at the University of Oulu, Finland |
| 2000 – 2001 | Student grant provided by Soros Supplementary Grant Programme |
| 2002 – 2003 | Student grant provided by Soros Supplementary Grant Programme |
| 2005 – 2006 | Guest-scholar at the Center for Grammar, Cognition and Typology, University of Antwerp, scholarship provided by the Government of Flanders |
| 2011 – 2012 | University of Regensburg, Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers |
Participation in on-going projects
| 2008 – 2013 | Estonian Scientific Foundation, research project “Morphosyntactic structure and development of Estonian”, principal investigator Helle Metslang |
| 2010 – 2013 | State program Estonian Language and Cultural memory, project “Linguistic fieldwork in Nothwest Russia”, principal investigator Liina Lindström |
| 2011 – 2014 | Estonian Scientific Foundation, research grant “Complex sentence in Estonian”, principal investigator Mati Erelt |
Awards
| 2005 | 3rd place in the Estonian student research contest organized by ARCHIMEDES (category “Ph.D. students in Humanities”) |
Linguistic fieldwork experience
| 1998 | Language documentation among speakers of Votic and Ingrian in Northwest Russia (July 1998) |
| 2009 | Language documentation among speakers of Ingrian in Northwest Russia (July 2009) |
| 2010 | Language documentation among speakers of Seto (a subdialect of South Estonian) in Northwest Russia (July 2010) |
| 2011 | Language documentation among speakers of North-Karelian, Olonets and Ludic in the Republic of Karelia, Northwest Russia (July 2011) |
| 2012 | Language documentation among speakers of Ludic in the Republic of Karelia, Northwest Russia (June 2012) |
Membership in professional organizations
Association for Linguistic Typology
Emakeele Selts (Mother Tongue Society), Estonia
Membership in scientific committees of conferences
43rd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, 2–5 September 2010, Vilnius
4th Conference on the Syntax of the World’s Languages, 23–26 September 2010, Lyon
LANCHART workshop on Semantic Functions of Complementizers in European Languages, 28–29 October 2011, Copenhagen (organizer)
“Grammar and Context IV: New Approaches to the Uralic Languages”, 6–8 June 2013, Tartu
46th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, 18–21 September 2013, Split
Selected conference presentations
| 2005 | (with Reeli Torn) Modals in Finnic, 38th annual conference of Societas Linguistica Europea (07.–10.09.2005, Valencia). |
| 2006 | Types of grammatical evidentials in the languages of the Balkan and Baltic linguistic areas, Annual conference of the Belgian Linguistic Society (20.05.2006, Leuven) |
| 2006 | (with Johan van der Auwera and Alice Vittrant) Acquisitive modals, TAMTAM: Cross-linguistic semantics of Tense, Aspect, Modality (15.–16.11.2006, Nijmegen). |
| 2008 | Interactions between evidential grammemes and lexical markers of epistemicity and evidentiality, CIL 18 (21.–26.07.2008, Seoul). |
| 2009 | Labile verbs in Estonian, ISTAL 19 (03.–05.04.2009, Thessaloniki). |
| 2009 | with Virve Vihman) System versus syncretism: verbal derivation and lability in Estonian, LAGB 50th Anniversary Golden Jubilee Meeting (06.–10.09.2009, Edinburgh). |
| 2011 | Semantic functions of complementizers in Finnic (Estonian, Finnish, Karelian), LANCHART workshop on Semantic Functions of Complementizers in European Languages (28.–29.10.2011, Copenhagen). |
Languages
| Bulgarian | native |
| Estonian | near-native |
| Finnish | very good |
| English | very good |
| German | good |
| Russian | good |
| Latvian | passive |
forschung
- Ostseefinnische Sprachen
- Sprachkontakt
- Modalität
- Grammatische Kategorien im Sprachtod
publikationen
Books
Kehayov, Petar 2008. An Areal-Typological Perspective to Evidentiality: the Cases of the Balkan and Baltic Linguistic Areas. Dissertationes Linguisticae Universitatis Tartuensis 10.
Articles
Kehayov, Petar & Vihman, Virve 2014. The lure of lability: A synchronic and diachronic investigation of the labile pattern in Estonian. To appear in: Typology of Labile Verbs: Focus on Diachrony, Eds. Kulikov, L., Lavidas, N., Linguistics 2014.
Kehayov, Petar, Helle Metslang & Karl Pajusalu 2012. Evidentiality in Livonian. Linguistica Uralica 2012/1. Tallinn. Estonian Academy Publishers, 41–54.
Kehayov, Petar, Liina Lindström & Ellen Niit 2011. Imperative in interrogatives in Estonian (Kihnu), Latvian and Livonian. Linguistica Uralica 2011/2. Tallinn. Estonian Academy Publishers, 81–93.
Blokland, Rogier & Petar Kehayov 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, Petar Kehayov & Alice Vittrant 2009. Acquisitive modals. In: Cross-linguistic Semantics of Tense, Aspect and Modality, Eds. Hogeweg, L., de Hoop, H. and Malchukov, A. (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: Lexikalische Evidenzialitäts-Marker in slavischen Sprachen, Eds. Plungian, V., Wiemer, B. 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 & Reeli Torn-Leesik 2009. Modal verbs in Balto-Finnic. In: Modals in the Languages of Europe, Eds. Hansen, B., de Haan, F. (Empirical Approaches to Language Typology 44). Berlin – New York. Mouton de Gruyter, 363–401.
Kehayov, Petar & Rogier Blokland 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 & Florian Siegl 2007. The evidential past participle in Estonian reconsidered. Études finno-ougriennes 38. Paris. L'Harmattan, 75–117.
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 2004. Lauseliigenduse printsiipe bulgaaria keele normatiivses grammatikas. [Syntactic relation tagging principles in Bulgarian normative grammar.] In: Lauseliikmeist eesti keeles [About the syntactic relations in Estonian], Ed. Lindström, L. 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.
Kehayov, Petar 2002. Typology of Grammaticalized Evidentiality in Bulgarian and Estonian. Linguistica Uralica 2002/2. Tallinn. Estonian Academy Publishers, 126–144.
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.
veranstaltungen
WS 2012/13:
Einführung in eine nicht-indogermanische Sprache: Estnisch I
(Module AVS - M 03.1 (5))
Grammatikalisierung
(Module: AVS - M 11.1 (7))
SoSe 2013:
Einführung in eine nicht-indogermanische Sprache: Estnisch II
