Marja-Liisa
Helasvuo
Professor, Finnish, Finno-Ugric and Scandinavian languages
suomen kielen professori / professor of Finnish language
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Areas of expertise
Professor of Finnish language
interactional linguistics
syntax
spoken discourse
interactions with aphasic speakers
language acquisition
digital interaction
computer-mediated communication
usage-based linguistics, discourse-functional linguistics
Biography
Marja-Liisa Helasvuo received her MA in Finnish language at the University of Helsinki and PhD in linguistics at the University of California Santa Barbara (1997). Since 2005, she has worked as a professor of Finnish language at the University of Turku.
Teaching
Finnish grammar; discourse and interaction; interactional linguistics; digital interaction
Research
Marja-Liisa Helasvuo's research interests lie in the area of interactional linguistics where she has focused on the relationship between syntax and conversational organization. She is the author of Syntax in the Making (Benjamins, 2001) as well as numerous research articles. She is the co-editor of Grammar from the Human Perspective (together with Lyle Campbell, Benjamins, 2006), Discourses in interaction (together with Marjut Johansson, Mia Raitaniemi and Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen, Benjamins, 2010) and ) and Subjects in constructions: canonical and non-canonical (together with Tuomas Huumo, Benjamins, 2015). She has co-edited a special issue on Discourse participants in interaction (together with Robert Englebretson, J of Pragmatics, 2014) and on Units in responsive turns (together with Elise Kärkkäinen and Tomoko Endo, J of Pragmatics, 2017).
Publications
First and second person forms as resources for open reference and participation in Finnish everyday conversations (2024)
(A3 Vertaisarvioitu kirjan tai muun kokoomateoksen osa)Are main clauses really ‘main’ clauses? The case of relative clauses in spoken Estonian and Finnish (2024)
Eesti ja soome-ugri keeleteaduse ajakiri
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
Insubordinate relative clauses in Finnish - old and new (2023)
Eesti ja soome-ugri keeleteaduse ajakiri
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
Main clauses of relative clauses in Finnish conversation: Where is the important information? (2023)
(Kirjan tai muun kokoomateoksen osa (B2))Relatiivilauseet arkikeskustelussa (2022)
Virittäjä
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
Free NPs as units in Finnish (2021)
(Vertaisarvioitu artikkeli kokoomateoksessa (A3))When an expression becomes fixed. Mä ajattelin että 'I thought that' in spoken Finnish (2020)
(Vertaisarvioitu artikkeli kokoomateoksessa (A3))The noun phrase as an emergent unit in Finnish (2020)
(A3 Vertaisarvioitu kirjan tai muun kokoomateoksen osa)The emergence and routinization of complex syntactic patterns formed with ajatella 'think' and tietää 'know' in Finnish talk-in-interaction (2020)
(Vertaisarvioitu artikkeli kokoomateoksessa (A3))Free NPs as units in Finnish (2019)
Studies in Language
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))