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General linguistics

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01.08.2020 -
School of Humanities, Philosophical Faculty
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Members of the General Linguistics Research Group work across a broad range of fields in empirical linguistics, including anthropological linguistics, clinical linguistics, cognitive linguistics, contact linguistics, documentary linguistics, language technology, linguistic typology, neurolinguistics, phonetics, pragmatics, and psycholinguistics. The group’s research covers languages from several language families, currently including Indo-European (English, German, Low Saxon, Russian, Swedish), Niger-Congo (Urhobo), Sino-Tibetan (Mandarin), Turkic (Azerbaijani), and Uralic (Finnish, Meänkieli, Nganasan, Kildin Saami, Skolt Saami, Syrian Komi, and Ter Saami).

The group was established in August 2020 under the leadership of Michael Rießler, following his appointment as Professor of General Linguistics. Alexandre Nikolaev joined as the group’s second senior member and co-leader upon his appointment as University Lecturer in General Linguistics in August 2021. Other affiliated senior members include Larisa Leisiö, Professor of Russian Language, and Jaana Kolu, Professor of Swedish Language.

News

  • Michael Rießler appointed as Professor

    Professor of General Linguistics Michael Rießler is a multilingualism expert who hopes that computational methods will also provide better tools for…

  • Phonetics Symposium in Joensuu

    The University of Eastern Finland campus in Joensuu opens its doors for the participants of the 35th Phonetics Symposium (Fonetiikan päivät)…

  • Finnish Conference of Linguistics 2026

    Finnish Conference of Linguistics 2026

  • IWCLUL 2025

    The 10th International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Uralic Languages IWCLUL 2025

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The following students carry out their projects in the research group and are supervised by senior group members.

Doctoral Programme of the Philosophical Faculty (FILOTO)

  • MA Anne Väisänen (since 2020)
  • MA Satu Hopponen (since 2020)
  • MA Idaliia Fedotova (since 2023)
  • MA Evan Hansen (since 2025)
  • MA Lovina Ehimen-Ugbede (since 2025)
  • MA Reza Saberi (since 2025)

Doctoral Programme in Science, Forestry and Technology (LUMETO)

  • MSc Hatim Oulad Arifi (since 2021)

Doctoral Programme of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies

  • MA Luxin Yu (since 2026, 2024–2026 FILOTO)

Former members

  • Dr. Olli Silvennoinen University Lecturer in General Linguistics 2020–2021
  • Dr. Eugenia Rykova (doctoral student 2021–2026)

Keywords

anthropological linguistics clinical linguistics cognitive linguistics contact linguistics documentary linguistics experimental studies general linguistics language technology linguistic typology neurolinguistics phonetics pragmatics psycholinguistics russian saami sociolinguistics speech sciences swedish

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