Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm

Head of the Section for General Linguistics,
PhD, Professor

Office: C 274
Telephone: +46-8-16 26 20
Fax: +46-8-15 53 89
Email: tamm@ling.su.se

Research interests

typology (grammatical typology, lexical typology, areal typology)

Research projects

 See Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm’s Research

Current projects
Hot and cold – universal or language-specific?
Past projects
• Core vocabulary in a typological perspective: semantic shifts and form–meaning correlations
• Nominal juxtaposition: a cross-linguistic study of a maltreated morpho-syntactic phenomenon
• Language typology with particular reference to the languages around the Baltic Sea (Circum-Baltic languages)

Research collaboration
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Publications

 See Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm’s publications

Teaching

National/International courses
Courses at Summer Schools:
• the Association of Linguistic Typology Summer School in Cagliari (Italy), August-September 2003;
• Typological Schools in Moscow (February 1998 and 2000) and in Yerevan (September 2005);
• the DGfS / GLOW Summer School in Stuttgart (August 2006)
• the DGfS-CNRS Summer School on Linguistic Typology in Leipzig (August 2010)

Guest courses at the Pavia university (Italy) December 1999 and February 2004; at the Vilnius University (Lithuania), October-November 2005; at the Institute of the Lithuanian language (Vilnius, Lithuania), September 2006.

Administrative responsibilities

Head of the Section for General Linguistics

Programmes
Director of FoSprak, the Special Doctoral Programme in Language and Linguistics (www.fosprak.su.se)

International assignments

Member of Academia Europaea (the Academy of Europe) (http://www.acadeuro.org/)

Associated Editor for Linguistic Typology

Member of the Editorial Board for
• Studia Linguistica
• Rivista di lingvistica
• Sprachtypologie and Universalienforschung (STUF)

Member of the Review Panel for the EUROCORES (European Collaborative Research) Programme “EuroBABEL: Better Analyses Based on Endangered Languages”, ESF, 2008 –