Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München

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Dear all, please note that our institute is now _also_ on Bluesky: Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München (finnougristiklmu). Follow us there for updates and interesting facts about Uralic languages and cultures!

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Next week, 8–11 June, our institute is going to host several lectures by Miina Norvik from the University of Tartu. The first one, on the continuity and change of structural features (8 June, 14–16 CEST) can also be followed online: https://t.co/In7GdAfwPh

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On Monday, 1 June, Ilya Egorov (LMU Munich) will give a talk in our colloquium entitled "The Formation of the Saami Continuum: Typological Features". 14:15–15:45 CEST, the Zoom link and the colloquium programme are here: https://t.co/In7GdAfwPh

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On 9–11 December 2026, our institute, supported by the Munich Center for Linguistics, will host the 11th International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Uralic Languages (IWCLUL). Send in a paper and/or spread the word! https://t.co/HyfpQjErMD

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On Monday, 18 May, Dr. Sabine Grasz (University of Oulu) will give a talk in our research colloquium entitled "Code-Switching Deutsch-Finnisch in deutsch-finnischen Tandemgesprächen". 14:15–15:45 CEST, the Zoom link and the colloquium programme are here: https://t.co/vS2QDnz9GP

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We are starting NOMAC — a three-year project within which we will create a diachronic corpus of Northern Mansi, an endangered Uralic language spoken in Siberia: https://t.co/jbqmU1ozd7
Join us on 4 May at 14:15 for a presentation (in person or online): https://t.co/In7GdAfwPh

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Congratulations to our (former) doctoral researcher Riku Erkkilä on successfully defending his doctoral dissertation on the semantics of Udmurt spatial cases! (That's him in the upper left corner!) The dissertation is available here: https://t.co/OmXf5AMknK

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On Monday, 27 April, Levente Máthé (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest) will give a talk entitled "Remarks on Relativization in Meadow Mari – a corpus-based approach". 14:15–15:45 CEST, the Zoom link and the colloquium programme is here: https://t.co/In7GdAfwPh

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Great news! Riku Erkkilä will defend his dissertation "The semantics of Udmurt spatial cases" on 25 April 2026 starting at 9:15 CEST (10:15 in Helsinki). The defence can be followed online at https://t.co/9sVUXyH3pV. The dissertation is available here: https://t.co/7BU45gX6Mh.

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The new website of our institute is currently under construction, so the up-to-date programme of the colloquium for this semester can be found here: https://t.co/In7GdAfwPh

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This week, we have been hosting Idaliya Fedotova, a doctoral researcher from the University of Eastern Finland, who came to our institute for a research visit and consultations on Khanty. We are always happy to have guests, so please reach out if you would like to visit us!

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Registration for the International Finno-Ugric Students' Conference (IFUSCO) is open until 31 March. The conference itself will take place in Helsinki from 11 to 15 May 2026. Here is the link to the conference website: https://t.co/lNrkSDybMd

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Our second workshop focused on sociolinguistically informed linguistic fieldwork. It was organized by Maria Khachaturyan and Maria Konoshenko. We studied linguistic repertoires of the winter school participants and managed to discover some contact influence in verbal valency!

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The two invited lectures of the winter school were given by Timofey Arkhangelskiy, who created a tiny but real corpus for us during his lecture, and Viktória Tóth, who introduced us to bibliotherapy and made us reflect on why we read and how we write.

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This afternoon, we have a literary translation workshop with Maximilian Murmann, our alumnus who translates Finnish and Estonian books into German. Currently discussing how to translate obscene place names!

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Celebrating the Estonian Independence Day with another day of Surgut Khanty classes 💙🖤🤍

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The winter school has started with Zsófia Schön's Surgut Khanty course and a game of hangman based on Khanty phonetics!

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The weather forecast predicts 15 degrees and sunshine next week, but Munich is clearly ready for WINTER school as of tonight! We look forward to welcoming all the participants here soon!

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Transalpine Typology Meeting is coming to Munich this year (26–28 November)! The deadline for abstract submission is 15 April 2026. Please spread the word! https://t.co/Wfohpvg0Ky

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We are very happy to announce that Viktória Tóth has just joined our institute as the new lecturer of Hungarian 🎉🎉🎉

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On Monday, 2 February, our doctoral researcher Ilia Egorov will give a talk entitled "Recent advances in the study of Kildin Saami: a field report". 14:15–15:45 CET, the Zoom link is here: https://t.co/NRYe3vJRo3