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The Linguistic Association of Finland organises a presentation event via Zoom in April 2025
The Linguistic Association of Finland will start a new lecture series on Zoom this spring. The first event will be on April 24th at 4:00 PM, featuring presentations by two young researchers:
- 4.00 PM: Grace Joplin Ferreira (Doctoral researcher, University of Helsinki): Exploring the strengths of autistic people in language: a qualitative study in Finland
- 4.30 PM: Dorothée Schulz-Budick (Post doctoral researcher, University of Tampere): Taking a step back: What do we see when looking at the broader picture of in-depth analyses of multilingual family interactions?
After each presentation, there will be time for questions and comments. The language of the event is English.
You can join by requesting the Zoom link for the event from the association’s chair Maija Tervola (maija.tervola (a) tuni. fi) or secretary Jenna Kanerva (jmnybl (a) utu. fi.) For SKY members the link will be sent automatically via email.
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The Linguistic Association of Finland’s graduate award 2024 awarded to MA Lauri Hauru
The Linguistic Association of Finland (SKY) has awarded a prize to a particularly meritorious master’s degree research topic in linguistics since 2011. The 2024 award goes to Lauri Hauru, who graduated from the University of Oulu with an MA in Finnish. His thesis “E-infinitive inessive in the zero person form in standard Finnish (fin: E-infinitiivin inessiivin nollapersoonamuoto suomen yleiskielessä)” was completed in January 2024. Lauri Hauru’s research represents basic qualitative research in the field of Fennistics. The thesis examines which texts and sentence contexts the zero person form of the infinitive of the E-infinitive (e.g. tehdessä) is used in standard Finnish. The research material has been collected from Finnish scientific journals of the 21st century, using the Korp concordance search program, and the material consists of 501 sentences in wider contexts.
According to the award committee, the thesis’ question formulation is already ambitious, and shows its author’s previous familiarity with the subject. Hauru describes the problems he encountered in the data collection and the possible shortcomings of the data openly and critically, which shows excellent research skills. The material is examined qualitatively, and the findings are commendably reflected in Finnish grammar and language maintenance recommendations. The qualitative analysis is reliable, and the examples for the author’s arguments are informative. The language of the dissertation is also very refined.
The prize is awarded annually in connection with the annual meeting of the Linguistic Association of Finland. Hauru has also promised to give a presentation based on his award-winning master’s thesis at the SKY annual meeting, which will be held on February 26, 2025.
SKY’s Symposium 2025 will be held in Tampere in October
The traditional biennial International Symposium of the Linguistic Association of Finland (SKY) will be held in October 2–3, 2025 at the Tampere University. The theme of this year’s symposium is “Meaning in language, machines and humans”. The symposium invites linguists from different traditions and language technology scholars to give presentations and discuss meaning.
The invited speakers of the symposium are Ulla Vanhatalo from the University of Helsinki, Aarne Ranta from the Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg, and Kasia Jaszczolt from the University of Cambridge.
The Call for Papers is published here. The deadline for submitting proposals for presentations is April 22, 2025.
More information available on the symposium website: https://events.tuni.fi/skysymposium2025/