Bridget Drinka is a Professor and former Chair of the Department of English at the University of Texas, San Antonio. She has taught at a number of universities worldwide, and has written extensively on Indo-European temporal-aspectual categories, cladistic models of language relationship, stratification as a mapping tool, the 'sacral stamp' of Greek, and on other topics related to her interest in Indo-European, historical, and socio-historical linguistics. She serves as President of the International Society for Historical Linguistics, and as Associate Editor of Folia Linguistica Historica.
1. Language contact in Europe: the periphrastic perfect through history
2. Languages in contact, areal linguistics and the perfect
3. The perfect as a category
4. Sources of the perfect in Indo-European
5. The periphrastic perfect in Greek
6. The periphrastic perfect in Latin
7. The Charlemagne sprachbund and the periphrastic perfects
8. The core and peripheral features of romance languages
9. The early development of the perfect in the Germanic languages
10. The semantic shift of anterior to preterite
11. The Balkan perfects: grammaticalization and contact
12. Byzantium, orthodoxy, and old church Slavonic
13. The l-perfect in North Slavic
14. Updating the notion of sprachbund: new resultatives and the circum-Baltic 'stratified convergence zone'
15. The have resultative in Slavic and Baltic
16. Conclusions.
