Condensed survey on Enets studies
Florian Siegl
Citizenship: German
Address: Aleksandri 12-35
51004 Tartu - Estonia
e-mail: firstname.surname (no capitals) at gmx.net
phone: + 3725038794
Fields of interest
- functional-typological linguistics (evidentiality, converbs, argument structure)
- documentary linguistics
- anthropological linguistics
- social & visual anthropology
Education
- graduation from Annette-Kolb-Gymnasium Traunstein, in 1996
- entered University of Munich in fall 1997
- exchange student at Univeristy of Turku and Åbo akademi
- visiting student at
- accepted as M.A. student at the University of
- accepted as PhD student at the University of Tartu in 2004
- visiting student at the University of Helsinki spring term 2005
- short term scholar at UCSD Linguistics and the Center for Human development January-March 2008
Academic degrees
Spring 1999 Zwischenprüfung Skandinavistik at LMU München
Spring 2004 M.A.
Fields of studies
Uralic Linguistics*, Scandinavian studies*, General Linguistics*, Archeology, Ethnology, Computational Linguistics, Philosophy (* = majors)
Languages
German (native), English, Estonian, Finnish, Swedish (well); Icelandic, Russian, Udmurt, Forest Enets (intermediate); Turkish, Hungarian, Komi, French (passive); good structural knowledge of all Samoyed, several Paleoasian, Turkic and Saami languages
July 1999
Scholarship from CIMO (
“Finnish language and Culture for Foreigners” in Savonlinna
2001
Spring-term at the
2001-2002
DAAD Jahresstipendium for studying at
August 2002
Scholarship from
Linguistics organized by the Department of General Linguistics at the University
of
2002-2003
DAAD Jahresstipendium for studying at
2005
CIMO scholarship for a 5-month's stay at the
Kristjan Jaak scholarship (Archimedes) for attending LSA 2005 at MIT
2008
Kristjan Jaak scholarship (Archimedes) for a two months stay at UCSD Linguistics and the Center for Human Development
Summer Schools attended
July 1999
Summer School Finnish Language and Culture for Foreigners in Savonlinna
(
August 2001
Summer School in Udmurt Language and Culture; Iževsk,
(
August 2002
Summer School in General Linguistics organized by the Department of General
August 2003
Summer School in Udmurt Language and Culture; Iževsk,
(
Sept 2003
Summer School in Linguistic Typology organized by the Association for
Linguistic Typology and Max-Plank Institut für Anthropolgie in
Sept 2004
Language documentation: Methods and technology.
Nov - Dec 2004
Methods and tools for the study of grammatical variation.
June - July 2005
LSA 2005 "Dialogues in Grammatical Theory, Experiment and Change"
March 2006
Leipzig Spring School in Linguistic Diversity.
July 2007
LSA 2007 "Empirical Foundations for Theories of Languages", Stanford University, USA
August 2007
Formal methods in philosophy and linguistics,
Other training
July 2004
Training seminar "Methods of Ethnographic Fieldwork" 19-23 July 2004 at MPI für Soziale Anthropologie in Halle,
October 2005
DOBES training seminar at MPI Nijmegen (10.-14.10.2005)
Courses taught
- Old Icelandic tutorial
- Seminar on Finnish language and Culture
- Introduction to Linguistic Typology with special reference to the Uralic Languages
- Introduction to Linguistic Typology with special reference to the Scandinavian Languages
- Endangered languages and language endangerment, Non-compulsory open lecture series
Single lectures as parts of lecture series
- Principles of historical linguistics
- Field linguistics and documentary linguistics
- Introducing the Enets Language
- The Enetses
- The Nganasans
- Language Endangerment and Documentary Linguistics
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- Diachronic Typology and Historical-Comparative Linguistics
- The world's major languages
- Peoples of the Taimyr Peninsula
Fieldwork and informant work
-Several mostly week long trips in different areas of
- Linguistic fieldwork (morphosyntactic elicitation) in
-Informant work with a speaker of Bima (LSA 2005 Field methods class) guided by Mary Laughren, Jane Simpson and David Nash
- Varjogan - Forest Nenets and Dudinka -
- Dudinka, Potapovo -
- Informant work with a speaker of Forest Enets in Tartu (December 2007)
- Informant work with a speaker of Somali at UCSD (January-March 2008)
- Dudinka, Potapovo - Forest Enets and Dolgan (May-July 2008)
Organizing
Workshop Functional approaches to
lesser-studied Uralic languages
Theme session at the conference Cognitive and Functional Perspectives
on Dynamic Tendencies in Languages Tartu, Estonia (29.05. - 01.06.2008)
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