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Name: Petar Dimitrov Kehayov
Date of birth: 22.05.1972
Place of birth: Sofia, Bulgaria

Education

2000 B.A., University of Tartu ("Deminutiivtuletus eesti ja soome keeles")
2003 M.A., University of Tartu ("Grammatiline evidentsiaal Balkani ja Balti areaali keeltes")
2008 Ph.D., University of Tartu ("An Areal-Typological Perspective to Evidentiality: the Cases of the Balkan and Baltic Linguistic Areas")

Academic positions

2003 - 2004 Specialist of study at the Department of Estonian and Finno-Ugric Linguistics, University of Tartu
2004 - Researcher 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              

Academic training

2005 Joint seminar of the 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 the University of Tartu (Haanja, Estonia)
2007 Summer School on Linguistic Methodology organized by Societas Linguistica Europea (Campobasso, Italy)

Courses taught

2002 (Fall) Finnish Language (Department of Finno-Ugric Languages at the University of Tartu)
2005 (Spring) Bulgarian for Beginners (Language Center of the University of Tartu)
2007 (Fall) Special Course in Estonian Grammar, with Külli Habicht, Liina Lindström and Ilona Tragel (Department of Estonian Language at the University of Tartu)
2008 (Fall) Special Course in Estonian Grammar (Institute of Estonian and General Linguistics at the University of Tartu)
2009 (Fall) Special Course in Estonian Grammar (Institute of Estonian and General Linguistics at the University of Tartu)

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 from the Government of Flanders
2011 - 2012 Guest-scholar at the University of Regensburg; postdoc scholarship from Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

Awards

2005 3rd place in the Estonian student research contest organized by ARCHIMEDES (category Ph.D. students in Humanities)

Fieldwork experience

1998 Linguistic documentation among the speakers of Votic and Ingrian in North-Western Russia (July 1998)                       
2009 Linguistic documentation among the speakers of Ingrian in North-Western Russia (July 2009)
2010 Linguistic documentation among the speakers of Seto (a subdialect of South Estonian) in North-Western Russia (July 2010)
2011 Linguistic documentation among the speakers of North-Karelian, Olonets and Lude in the Republic of Karelia (July 2011)

Membership

Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT)

Language expertise

Bulgarian (native), Estonian (near-native), English, Finnish, German, Russian (good), Latvian, Hungarian (passive)

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