Marja-Liisa Helasvuo
suomen kielen professori / professor of Finnish language
mlhelas@utu.fi +358 29 450 2802 +358 46 923 3816 Arcanuminkuja 1 Turku |
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
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.
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).
Finnish grammar; discourse and interaction; interactional linguistics; digital interaction
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- Are main clauses really ‘main’ clauses? The case of relative clauses in spoken Estonian and Finnish (2024)
- Eesti ja soome-ugri keeleteaduse ajakiri
- First and second person forms as resources for open reference and participation in Finnish everyday conversations (2024) (Non)referentiality in conversation Helasvuo, Marja-Liisa; Suomalainen, Karita
- Insubordinate relative clauses in Finnish - old and new (2023)
- Eesti ja soome-ugri keeleteaduse ajakiri
- Main clauses of relative clauses in Finnish conversation: Where is the important information? (2023) Язык как он есть Cборник статей к 60-летию Андрея Александровича Кибрика Laury Ritva, Helasvuo Marja-Liisa
- Relatiivilauseet arkikeskustelussa (2022)
- Virittäjä
- Free NPs as units in Finnish (2021) Usage-based and Typological Approaches to Linguistic Units Helasvuo Marja-Liisa
- The emergence and routinization of complex syntactic patterns formed with ajatella 'think' and tietää 'know' in Finnish talk-in-interaction (2020) Emergent syntax for conversation. Clausal patterns and the organization of action. Ritva Laury, Marja-Liisa Helasvuo
- The noun phrase as an emergent unit in Finnish (2020) The 'Noun Phase' across Languages. An emergent unit in interaction Helasvuo Marja-Liisa
- When an expression becomes fixed. Mä ajattelin että 'I thought that' in spoken Finnish (2020) Fixed expressions. Building language structure and social action Laury Ritva, Helasvuo Marja-Liisa, Rauma Janica
- Free NPs as units in Finnish (2019)
- Studies in Language
- 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
- The relativizer kun in spoken Finnish: Patterns of usage and paths of development (2018) Oralité, Information, Typologie. Orality, Information, Typology Helasvuo Marja-Liisa, Laury Ritva
- Units in responsive turns (2017)
- Journal of Pragmatics
- Choosing between zero and pronominal subject: modeling subject expresion in the 1st person singular in Finnish conversation (2016)
- Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory
- Detached NPs with Relative Clauses in Finnish Conversations (2016) Information structuring of spoken language from a cross-linguistic perspective Laury Ritva, Helasvuo Marja-Liisa
- Disclaiming epistemic access with ‘know’ and ‘remember’ in Finnish (2016)
- Journal of Pragmatics
- Kirja-arvostelu: Direktiivisyyden rajankäyntiä (2016)
- Virittäjä
- Canonical and non-canonical subjects in constructions – Perspectives from cognition and discourse (2015) Subjects in constructions: canonical and non-canonical Marja-Liisa Helasvuo, Tuomas Huumo
- "Jos ajat, et ota" (2015)
- Turun Sanomat
- On the subject of subject in Finnish (2015) Subjects in constructions: canonical and non-canonical Tuomas Huumo, Marja-Liisa Helasvuo
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