More about Matti Miestamo

Professor Matti Miestamo on the internet (mainly in Finnish)

Professor of General Linguistics, Matti Miestamo’s inaugural lecture, 3.12.2014 (in Finnish)
Matti Miestamo, Kieliperiaatteista kansainvälisissä rekrytoinneissa (’Language criteria in international recruitment’) Published 2.6.2014 on the website of Tieteen termipankki (‘Bank of Finnish Terminology in Arts and Sciences’ [in Finnish])
”Miten suomen kielen passiivi eroaa muiden kielten passiivista?” (’How does the Finnish passive differ from the passive in other languages?’), interview with Matti Miestamo 20.12.2014 Aristoteleen kantapää radio programme, Yle Areena (in Finnish)
”Puhetta kielestä: vieraana professori Matti Miestamo”, interview 27.3.2013 Huomenta Ruotsi (’Good morning Sweden’ radio programme), Sveriges Radio (in Finnish)
Matti Miestamo, Symmetric and Asymmetric Standard Negation. In: Dryer, Matthew S. & Haspelmath, Martin (eds.), The World Atlas of Language Structures, 2013. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. (Available online at http://wals.info/chapter/113, accessed 16.11.2014)
Matti Miestamo, Subtypes of Asymmetric Standard Negation. In: Dryer, Matthew S. & Haspelmath, Martin (eds.), The World Atlas of Language Structures, 2013. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. (Available online at http://wals.info/chapter/114, accessed 16.11.2014)

By Authors: Matti Miestamo and Riita-Ilona Hurmerinta. Translated by John Calton

Matti Miestamo

Matti Markko Petteri Miestamo
Born 3 January 1972, Lahti

Licence (=BA), 1995, Sciences du Langage, Université de Provence (Aix-en-Provence) BA, 1996, General Linguistics, University of Turku MA, 1997, General Linguistics, University of Turku PhD, 2003, General Linguistics, University of Helsinki (Docent, 2008, General Linguistics, University of Helsinki)

Professor, University of Helsinki, General Linguistics, Department of Modern Languages, 2014-
Researcher, University of Helsinki, Department of General Linguistics, 2003–06
Visiting scholar, University of Antwerp, 2005–06
Researcher, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, 2006–11
 Professor, Stockholm University, General Linguistics, Department of Linguistics, 2011–13

Publications, research projects and other scientific activities TUHAT
Research areas: Linguistic typology, negation, interrogatives, language complexity, language documentation, Skolt Saami language

Awards and special achievements
Joseph Greenberg Award, Association for Linguistic Typology, 2005
Burgen Scholar, Academia Europaea, 2004

Photo: LInda Tammisto
Authors: Matti Miestamo and Riitta-Ilona Hurmerinta (ed.)
Translated by: John Calton