• Finland

  • PL 24 (Unioninkatu 40)

    00014

    Finland

20022025

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Personlig profil

Information om forskning och undervisning

Overview

I am professor of quantitative and comparative linguistics at the University of Helsinki. My research concerns primarily large-scale comparative research of the world's languages but also corpus linguistics and comparative sociolinguistics. I have researched, for instance, case marking, word order, grammatical gender, linguistic complexity, language and religion, and methodology in typology. I teach widely on general linguistic topics, ranging from language typology and language evolution to sociolinguistics, language contact, and statistics in linguistics. I supervise master's theses and PhD dissertations mostly related to my research interests and expertise but also more widely.

In 2019-2024 I directed the ERC Starting Grant project "Linguistic Adaptation". See more information about the project by clicking the link.

Since 2025 I have directed the strategic profiling action Diversity in Society and Life (DIVSOL), funded by the Research Council of Finland and coordinated by the Faculty of Arts at the University of Helsinki.

 

Research

  • Language typology and universals
  • Core argument marking
  • Statistical methods in typology
  • Language complexity
  • Adaptation of language structures
  • Sociolinguistic typology
  • Language and religion

Courses taught

  • Articulatory phonetics
  • Evolution of speech and language
  • Introduction to general linguistics
  • Introduction to language typology
  • Introduction to syntax
  • History of linguistics and current fields of research
  • Language Contact
  • Linguistic meaning, usage and context
  • Phonology and morphology
  • Quantitative typology
  • Quantitative methods in linguistics
  • Research methods in linguistics
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Statistical modeling in linguistics

 

Vetenskapsgrenar

  • 6121 Språkvetenskaper

Internationellt och inhemskt samarbete

Publikationer och projekt inom de senaste fem åren.