RESEARCH INTERESTS:

• historical-comparative linguistics, especially the history and historical contacts of the Finno-Ugric languages
• morphology, word-formation
• minority languages and multilingualism
• Finnic languages
• gender linguistics

 

RESEARCH PROJECTS:

currently:

International coordinator of VIRSU, applied-linguistic research platform for Finno-Ugric languages as target languages

2010–2013:

Team leader (Vienna), dissemination leader and leader of the Austrian case study in the EU-FP7 research project ELDIA (European Language Diversity for All).

2009–2012:

Team coordinator (Vienna) in the research project Ob-Ugric languages, an ESF/Eurocores project within the EuroBABEL programme.

2008–2011:

Leader of the research project Typology of Negation in Ob-Ugric and Samoyedic Languages, funded by FWF.

1999–2002:

Leader of the research project Omasta ja vieraasta rakentuminen (Building with things borrowed and new: history and contacts of the Finnic languages), funded by the Academy of Finland.