Areas of expertise
Biography
I am Ph. Lic. in Scandinavian Philology, University of Turku and my studies also include linguistics, Finnish language and pedagogy. Some parts of the studies I have done at University of Uppsala in Sweden. At the moment I work on my doctoral thesis. My current occupation at University of Turku is lecturer at the Department of Scandinavian Languages, the School of Language and Translation Studies.
Teaching
Text production, pronounciation, language history.
Research
My research interests cover the earliest period of Swedish language written in latin letters, the Early Old Swedish period (1225-1375). During this time there were several provincial laws produced in written form, for example the law of Uppland and these laws form the empirical part of my study. My research questions focus on the one hand on the syntactical structure and on the other on the text structure in the laws and how these two dimensions co-operate in the medieval legal texts. Indefinite subjects, word order and topicalization are some of the topics in my research.