PAST EVENTS
The Linguistic Association of Finland organises symposia,
workshops and courses on current issues in linguistics.
SYMPOSIA, WORKSHOPS ETC.
- The 2018 Conference; Constructional semantics: Cognitive, functional and typological approaches, was held in Helsinki, August 24–25. It was organized by The Linguistic Association of Finland, Research project "Temporal movement and manner of motion" and the University of Helsinki.
- The 2017 Symposium, organized by The Linguistic Association of Finland, Research project Evidego and the University of Helsinki was held in Helsinki, August 23–25: The Expression of Knowledge: Epistemicity and Beyond
- The 2016 Symposium, organized by The Linguistic Association of Finland, was held in Turku on August 25th and 26th: "Time and language" .
- The Linguistic Association of Finland organized the 2015 Symposium in Helsinki on August 28th and 29th: "New Developments in the Quantitative Study of Languages".
- The Linguistic Association of Finland, the Federation of Finnish Mother Tongue Teachers in Finland and Helsingin yliopisto organized the first Linguistics Olympiad of Finland, March 28-29, 2015
- The 2014 Symposium 'Language Contact: The State of the Art'
took place in Helsinki, August 28-30.
- The Symposium 'Subject:
cognitive, typological and functional approaches'
was held in Helsinki, September 12-13, 2013.
- Symposium on 'Grammar
and Genre: interfaces and influences.' in Turku
(Finland), October 24-26, 2012
- 'Variation
and
Typology: New trends in Syntactic Research', in
Helsinki, August 25-27, 2011.
- 'Re-thinking
synonymy:
semantic sameness and similarity in languages and
their description' in Helsinki, October
28.-30.10.2010.
- 'Case
in and across languages' in Helsinki (Finland),
August 27-29, 2009
- Third
Workshop on Quantitative Investigations in Theoretical
Linguistics (QITL-3) , 2-4 June, 2008, in
Helsinki, Finland.
- Symposium on 'Manner'
in
the Theory of Language in Tampere, August
20-21, 2007.
- Symposium on Approaches
to
Complexity in Language in Helsinki, August
24-26, 2005.
- Symposium on The
lexicon:
its status in the theory of language in
Turku at Åbo Akademi, November 18-19, 2004.
- Symposium on Syntactic
Functions
- Focus on the Periphery in Helsinki,
November 14-15, 2003.
- Kielitieteen päivät
in Joensuu May 15-16, 2003
- Symposium
on Historical Syntax at Mekrijärvi Research
Station of the University of Joensuu (2002)
- Symposium
on Case as a linguistic phenomenon (2002;
information only in Finnish)
- Symposium
on
Linguistic Perspectives on Endangered Languages
(2001)
- Symposium
on
Parts of speech in and across languages (2000)
- Symposium
on The Relationship between Syntax and Semantics in
the Analysis of Linguistic Structure (1999)
- Workshop
on New Trends in Variationist Linguistics: From
Attitudes to Grammar (1998)
- Workshop on Prosody and Grammar in Interaction (1997)
- Symposium on Tacit Assumptions in the Study of
Language: How the Viewpoint Creates the Object of Study
(1996)
- Workshop on Morphology (1995)
- Workshop on Discourse, Grammar and Grammaticalisation
(1994)
- Postgraduate course on Current Trends in Phonology
(1993)
ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETINGS
2018
The annual meeting was held on February, 28th, at the Tieteiden Talo in Helsinki. Aku Rouhe (Department of Signal Processing and Acoustics, Aalto University), the winner of this year MA-thesis competion, presented his work "Finite state models for recognition and validation of read prompts.".
2017
This year's annual meeting was held on February, 27th, at the usual location of Tieteiden Talo in Helsinki. The winner of this year MA-thesis competion, Eero Talvitie (University of Helsinki), presented his work: "К вопросу о первичных долгих гласных в тунгусо-маньчжурских языках".
2016
The annual meeting of the Association was held on February, 26th, at the Tieteiden talo in Helsinki. The winner of this year MA-thesis competion, Tapio Keihäs (University of Helsinki) presented his work "¿Ser y hablar quechua? Intiaaninuorten omakohtainen näkemys Ayacuchon sosiolingvistisesta todellisuudesta – Ideologioita ja identiteettejä metakielellisessä diskurssissa".
2015
This year's meeting of the Association was held on Febrary, 27th, at the usual location of Tieteiden talo in Helsinki. The two winners of the annual MA-thesis gave each a presentation of their own work: Gaïdig Dubois (University of Helsinki, Finnish language and culture) presented his work "Luulin itseäni onnelliseksi. Mentaalimuutosmuotin rakenne ja käyttö" and Jenna Kanerva (University of Turku, Computer Science and Information Systems) presented her work "Beyond Treebanking: Developing Methods and Resources for Finnish Syntactic and Semantic Analysis".
2014
The annual meeting of the Association was held on Febrary, 17th, at the Tieteiden talo in Helsinki. The winner of this year MA-Thesis competion, Mari Nikonen (University of Helsinki), gave a presentation of her work "Kysymysten prosodiaa ja syntaksia. Thainkielisten suomeoppijoiden kysyvät konstruktiot keskustelussa".
2013
The meeting of the Association was held on February, 11th in
Helsinki at the Tieteiden talo. The winner of this year
MA-thesis competition, Sanna-Ala Sippola (University of
Helsinki), gave a presentation of her work "Agentin
ilmaiseminen suomalaisessa viittomakielessä".
2012
The meeting of the Association was held on February, 16th in
Helsinki at the Tieteiden talo. The winner of this year
MA-thesis competition, Nea Auhtola (University of Helsinki),
gave a presentation of her work ”Kohärenz im Gespräch: Zur Herstellung von Diskurskohärenz und common ground mittels der Quaestio-Bewegung am Beispiel von studentischen Konversationen des TAITO-Projektes".
2011
The meeting of the Association was held in February 11 in
Helsinki at the Tieteiden talo. The winner of this year
MA-thesis competition, Ella Vilhelmaa, together with her
advisors Andrew Chesterman and Ulla Tuomarla, gave a
presentation about her work ”Les Soucis du Pinson: La
Question de la traduction interspécifique”.
2010
The annual meeting took place in Helsinki at the Tieteiden
talo on February 26. Prof. Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen
(University of Helsinki) gave a guest lecture "'Positionally
sensitive grammar': The case of newsmarks".
2009
The meeting was held on February 20. The guest lecturers
were Ilona Herlin and Matti Miestamo (University of
Helsinki).
2008
The annual business meeting of the Association was held on
February 22. 2008. Prof. Marja Leinonen gave a guest lecture
with the topic ""Depiktiiviset sekundaarit predikaatit
suomen kielessä".
2007
The meeting was held in Helsinki on February 23. This
year the guest lecturers were: Prof. Riho Grönthal
(University of Helsinki), Prof. Jussi Niemi (University of
Joensuu) ja Prof. Anna Mauranen (University of Helsinki).
2006
This year's annual meeting took place in Helsinki at the
Tieteiden talo on Friday Feb. 24. The guest lecturer was
Prof. Fred Karlsson, who talked about the recent results
in the research of language complexity.
2005
This year's annual meeting was held in Helsinki at the
Tieteiden talo on February 25. The guest lecturer was
Prof. Juhani Klemola from the University of Tampere.
2004
The meeting was held in Helsinki on February 13. This
year the guest lecturer was Professor Yaron Matras
(General Linguistics, University of Manchester). He gave a
talk about "Advances in the study of Romani." More
information about Prof. Matras' research can be found in
https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/yaron.matras.html
The Morphosyntactic Typology of Romani Dialects: Database
Enhancement Project
http://romani.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/rms/
2003
The annual business meeting of the Association was held in
February 14 2003. Ph.D. Marja Liisa Helasvuo (Dep. of
Finnish, University of Turku) gave a guest lecture with the
topic "Mitä interaktionaalinen kielitiede voi tarjota
lingvistiikalle? Esimerkkinä suomen passiivi" (Interactional
linguistics
and the Finnish passive).
2002
In 2002 the association celebrated it's 25th anniversary by
organizing a symposium on Case.
2001
In 2001 the guest lecture was given by Professor Michael
Tomasello (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary
Anthropology, Leipzig).
DISCUSSIONS AT THE FINNISH CONFERENCE OF LINGUISTICS
Another yearly tradition is that the Association
organises discussions at the Finnish Conference of
Linguistics. In 1999 the discussion was on linguists' job
opportunities, in 2000 on the linguistic situation of
Arctic minorities, in 2001 on polyphony of the linguistic
research in Finland, an in 2002 on Time and Language. In
2003, the Association organized an exhibition around the
theme "The world's language situation and endangered
languages. In 2005 the Association participated in the
Night of Sciences. It organized so-called "academic
fifteen minutes" in which Maria Vilkuna and Auli Hakulinen
both gave a talk. The Association also organized a poster
exhibition. The authors of the posters were present to
answer possible questions.
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