Alho Alhoniemi
Alho Alhoniemi (born 1933 in Suomussalmi) is a Finnish linguist specializing in the Finno-Ugric languages.[1]
Alhoniemi graduated from high school in 1952 in Kannus.[2] He obtained his PhD in 1967 with a thesis about the lative case in Mari[2] and served as professor of Finno-Ugric linguistics at the University of Turku from 1971 to 1996.[1] He was appointed member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters in 1981[3] and received an honorary doctorate from Uppsala University in 1994.[4] He served as chairman of the Society for the Finnish Language (Suomen Kielen Seura) from 1971 to 1979.[5]
His research interests include the syntax of the Mari and Mordvinic languages.[1] In 1985, he published an extensive grammar of Mari in Finnish, which was translated into German in 1993.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Alhoniemi, Alho". Uppslagsverket Finland (in Swedish). 2016-03-11. Retrieved 2018-08-25.
- ^ a b Kulonen, Ulla-Maija (1993). "Alho Alhoniemi 60 vuotta". Virittäjä. 97 (2): 228–232.
- ^ "Kotimaiset jäsenet" (in Finnish). Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia. Archived from the original on 2018-06-12. Retrieved 2018-08-25.
- ^ "Humanistiska fakultetens hedersdoktorer". Uppsala universitet (in Swedish). Retrieved 2018-08-25.
- ^ "Historia". Suomen Kielen Seura (in Finnish). Retrieved 2018-08-25.
- ^ Hilpert, Martin; Östman, Jan-Ola; Mertzlufft, Christine; Riessler, Michael; Duke, Janet (2015). New Trends in Nordic and General Linguistics. Berlin: De Gruyter. p. 153. ISBN 978-3-11-034697-8. OCLC 906873217.
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