Research Output per year
Personal profile
Description of research and teaching
I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies. My work deals with grammatical number (e.g. singular vs. plural) which is a field that encompasses morphology, syntax and semantics. In my MPhil and doctoral theses I focused on Welsh (Celtic, Indo-European), with comparative work with the other Celtic languages. Already in this work I was also interested in the typological context of Welsh and the Celtic languages: how their grammatical number systems compare with those of other languages of the world, and what the Celtic languages can add to our existing knowledge of them. My current postdoctoral project has a primarily typological focus: I look at singulatives (derived noun forms meaning 'one' or 'unit') cross-linguistically, building the first ever database of this phenomenon and studying in which kinds of number systems singulatives can be found and what this tells us about the expression of number in general, as well as other related phenomena such as the mass/count distinction.
Education/Academic qualification
linguistics, PhD, University of Cambridge
Keywords
- 6121 Languages
International and National Collaboration
Publications and projects within past five years.
Publications 2010 2020
Adjectival agreement in Middle and early Modern Welsh native and translated prose
Nurmio, S. M. & Meelen, M., 2020, (Accepted/In press) In : Journal of Celtic Linguistics.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
The Brittonic Languages
Nurmio, S. M. & Russell, P., 2020, (Submitted) The Mouton Handbooks of Indo-European Typology: Gradation. Hock, W., Keydana, G. & Widmer, P. (eds.). de Gruyter, (The Mouton Handbooks of Indo-European Typology).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific
Welsh
Nurmio, S. M., 2019, (Accepted/In press) Cross-linguistic research into derivational networks. Körtvélyessy, L., Štekauer, P. & Valera, S. (eds.).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific
Collective Nouns in Welsh: A Noun Category or a Plural Allomorph?
Nurmio, S. M., 1 Mar 2017, In : Transactions of the Philological Society. 115, 1, p. 58-78 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
The development and typology of number suppletion in adjectives
Nurmio, S. M., 14 Jul 2017, In : Diachronica. 34, 2, p. 127-174 48 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Projects 2018 2020
- 1 Active
The typology of singulatives: Definition, distribution and diachrony
01/09/2018 → 31/08/2020
Project: Research project