Marja-Liisa Helasvuo

Ph.D., Professor

Current job Why linguistics? Education Career Publications Contact information

Current job

Professor of Finnish, Department of Finnish and General Linguistics, University of Turku.

Member of the board for the national Langnet Graduate School in Language Studies.

Why linguistics?

At the age of 12, I decided to become a linguist. At that time I had no idea what that could mean; I just thought it might be fun. I’ve always been intrigued by grammar and language use. First I looked at these things from the viewpoint of Finnish, but later on I’ve become interested in cross-linguistic research and I’ve tried to develop a wider perspective on language use across languages. I’m currently participating in a cross-linguistic project on subject ellipsis and expression in discourse in collaboration with Robert Englebretson (Rice U), Tuomas Huumo (Tartu Ülikool) and Liina Lindström (Tartu Ülikool).

Education

1997 Ph.D. (linguistics), University of California, Santa Barbara

1988 Lic. Phil. (Finnish language), University of Helsinki

1987 MA (Finnish language & general linguistics), University of Helsinki

Career

2004–Professor, Department of Finnish, University of Turku

2001–2004 Research Fellow, Department of Finnish, University of Turku

2000– Docent, Department of Finnish, University of Helsinki

1999–2001 Research Coordinator, Langnet Graduate school in Language Studies

1998 Research Coordinator, Graduate School “Linguistic meaning and its processing”

1994–1997 junior researcher, Academy of Finland

1988–1991 junior researcher, University of Helsinki

1991–1994 research assistant, Academy of Finland

1983–1987 research assistant in various projects, Academy of Finland, University of Helsinki

Publications

List of publications.

Contact information

E-mail:	marja-liisa.helasvuo[delete this][at-sign][delete this]utu.fi
Homepage:	http://users.utu.fi/mlhelas/
Address:	Department of Finnish Fennicum 20014 University of Turku

Last updated 8/5/2009.