Rogier Blokland

Professor at Department of Modern Languages; Finno-Ugric Languages

Telephone:
+46 18 471 13 14
E-mail:
rogier.blokland@moderna.uu.se
Visiting address:
Engelska parken, Thunbergsvägen 3 L
Postal address:
Box 636
751 26 UPPSALA

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I have been Professor of Finno-Ugric languages at Uppsala University since 2014. My academic background is in Finno-Ugric linguistics, historical-comparative linguistics and language description. My current research focus is on the documentation and description of endangered Finno-Ugric languages, especially Komi and Meänkieli.

Keywords

  • language documentation
  • finno-ugric
  • uralic
  • saamic
  • finnic
  • permic
  • komi
  • grammaticography
  • meänkieli
  • livonian
  • estonian

Biography

Education:

2005: PhD in Linguistics (University of Groningen, the Netherlands)

1997: MA in Finno-Ugric Linguistics (University of Groningen, the Netherlands)

Positions:

2014-: Professor of Finno-Ugric Languages, Department of Modern Languages, Uppsala University

2011-14: Assistant professor of Finno-Ugric/Uralic linguistics, Institute of Finno-Ugric/Uralic Linguisics, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany.

2011: Adjunct lecturer in Finno-Ugric linguistics, Institute of Finno-Ugric and Uralic Linguistics, University of Hamburg, Germany.

2010: Adjunct lecturer in Finnic linguistics, Institute of Finno-Ugric and Uralic Linguistics, University of Hamburg, Germany.

2009-10: Acting professor of Finno-Ugric and Uralic linguistics, Institute of Finno-Ugric/Uralic Linguistics, University of Hamburg, Germany.

2008-09: Research assistant and lecturer in Estonian, Department of Nordic Languages, Ernst Moritz Arndt University, Greifswald, Germany.

2007-08: Adjunct lecturer in Finnic linguistics, Institute of Finno-Ugric/Uralic Linguistics, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany.

2007-2010: Examiner in Estonian, Diplomatic Service Language Centre, Federal Foreign Office, Berlin, Germany.

2007: Adjunct lecturer in Estonian linguistics, Department of Hungarian, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany.

2006: Instructor in Estonian, Diplomatic Service Language Centre, Federal Foreign Office, Berlin, Germany.

2005-06: Acting professor of Finno-Ugric linguistics, Department of Finno-Ugric Languages and Cultures, University of Groningen, the Netherlands.

Research

Current projects:

A grammar of Meänkieli (together with Elina Kangas and Riitta-Liisa Valijärvi): https://www.isof.se/lar-dig-mer/forskning/projekt/projektet-en-grammatisk-beskrivning-av-meankieli

REMODUS: The (Re-)Making of a Discipline. Digital Transformation and Internationalization in and beyond Uralic Studies (REMODUS)

UPPLADOC - Uppsala Language Documentation Group

Previous projects:

"Language Documentation meets Language Technology: The Next Step in the Description of Komi" (with Michael Rießler and Niko Partanen); externally funded research project (2017-); see https://langdoc.github.io/IKDP-2/

"Iźva Komi: Building an Annotated Digital Corpus for Future Research on Komi Speech Communities in Northernmost Russia (with Marina Fedina, Michael Rießler and Niko Partanen); externally funded research project (2014-2016); see IKDP and http://videocorpora.ru/en

COPIUS: Community of Practice in Uralic Studies

PhD students:

Recent PhD supervision topics include 'Language contact and the divergence of the Uralic languages - towards a multidisciplinary view of the history of the Uralic languages' (Mervi de Heer), 'Topics in Lule Saami dialectology' (Torgny Hedström), 'A corpus-based grammar of spoken North Saami' (Olle Kejonen), 'Variation in Komi dialects' (Niko Partanen), and 'Multilingualism in everyday interaction: the case of young speakers of Estonian in Sweden' (Laura Talvineva).

Applications from research students interested in any aspect of synchronic or diachronic Uralic linguistics are welcome.

Rogier Blokland

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