Matti Miestamo#
Photo: Linda Tammisto
| Membership Number: | 5146 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2019 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FINLAND |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.mv.helsinki.fi/home/matmies |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-9801-9030 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2014,01 - present Professor in General Linguistics, University of Helsinki.
- 2011,09 - 2018,12 Professor in General Linguistics, Stockholm University (leave of absence 2014 - 2018)
- 2006,08 - 2011,08 Research fellow, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki
- 2005,11 - 2006,04 Visiting postdoctoral researcher, University of Antwerp, Department of Linguistcs, Centre for Grammar, Cognition and Typology
- 2003,01 - 2006,07 Postdoctoral researcher, Department of General Linguistics, University of Helsinki (Academy of Finland project The grammatical complexity of natural languages)
Fields of Scholarship
- General linguistics
- Language typology
- Language documentation and description
Honours and Awards
- 2019 Academia Europaea, elected member
- 2019 Finnish Academy of Sciences and Letters, elected member
- 2017 Societas Scientiarum Fennica, elected member
- 2005 Joseph Greenberg Award, Association for Linguistic Typology
- 2004 Burgen Scholar Award, Academia Europaea
