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
Kirja-arvio: Kun futuuria ei ole. Miia Karttunen: No pittää kahttoo. Puhujan tulevan toiminnan ilmausten kielioppia ja pragmatiikka. 2018. ISBN: 978-952-61-2710-1. (2019)
Virittäjä
(Kirjoitus tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (B1))
The relativizer kun in spoken Finnish: Patterns of usage and paths of development (2018)
(Kirjan tai muun kokoomateoksen osa (B2))Units in responsive turns (2017)
Journal of Pragmatics
(Kirjoitus tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (B1))
Choosing between zero and pronominal subject: modeling subject expresion in the 1st person singular in Finnish conversation (2016)
Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Kirja-arvostelu: Direktiivisyyden rajankäyntiä (2016)
Virittäjä
(Kirjoitus tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (B1))
Disclaiming epistemic access with ‘know’ and ‘remember’ in Finnish (2016)
Journal of Pragmatics
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Detached NPs with Relative Clauses in Finnish Conversations (2016)
(Vertaisarvioitu artikkeli kokoomateoksessa (A3))Subjects in constructions : Canonical and non-canonical (2015)
(Toimitustyö tieteelliselle lehdelle, kokoomateokselle tai konferenssijulkaisulle (C2))Thinking in Finnish: Fixed expressions and the verb ajatella ''think'' in Finnish conversation – Panel contribution to Fixed expressions as units, organized by Helasvuo Marja-Liisa & Ryoko Suzuki (14th International Pragmatics Conference, Antwerp, Belgium) (2015)
Panel contribution to Fixed expressions as units, organized by Helasvuo Marja-Liisa & Ryoko Suzuki (14th International Pragmatics Conference, Antwerp, Belgium)
(O2 Muu julkaisu )
Vuorotellen, päällekkäin ja lomittain (2015)
Turun Sanomat
(Yleistajuinen artikkeli tai blogikirjoitus (E1))