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.
In the academic year 2019/2020 I am teaching a course titled Celtic Linguistics in the LingDA Master's programme. This is an overview of selected topics, both synchronic and diachronic, in the Celtic languages and requires no previous knowledge of the languages.
Education/Academic qualification
linguistics, PhD, University of Cambridge
Fields of Science
- 6121 Languages
- Linguistic typology
- historical linguistics
- Morphology
- Celtic languages
International and National Collaboration
Publications and projects within past five years.
Publications
Adjectival agreement in Middle and early Modern Welsh native and translated prose
Meelen, M. & Nurmio, S. M., 1 Jan 2020, In : Journal of Celtic Linguistics. 21, 1, p. 1-28 28 p.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
Grammatical Number in Welsh: Diachrony and Typology
Nurmio, S., 2019, Malden: Wiley Blackwell. 272 p. (Publications of the Philological Society; vol. 51)Research output: Book/Report › Book › Scientific › peer-review
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
Projects
- 1 Active
The typology of singulatives: Definition, distribution and diachrony
01/09/2018 → 31/08/2020
Project: Research project
Datasets
Prizes
Activities
Suomen kielitieteellinen yhdistys (External organisation)
Silva Nurmio (Board member)2020 → …
Activity: Membership types › Membership or other role in national/international committee, council, board
Gradation in Welsh: some issues and challenges
Silva Nurmio (Invited speaker)28 Mar 2019
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Semantic and cognitive aspects of singulatives
Silva Nurmio (Speaker)24 May 2019
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
The typology of singulatives: some preliminary findings
Silva Nurmio (Speaker)16 May 2019
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
All alone: the singulative in Celtic and cross-linguistically
Silva Nurmio (Invited speaker)14 Feb 2019
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk