Freiburg Research Group in Saami Studies (Archive)
A record of previous projects and activities carried out by the Freiburg Research Group in Saami Studies and its predecessors at the Department of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Freiburg
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Contact
Address
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Skandinavisches Seminar
Platz der Universität 3
D-79098 Freiburg
Office location
Belfortstr. 16, 3rd floor, room 3005
Telephone
+49(0)761/203-3219
michael.riessler@skandinavistik.uni-freiburg.de
joshua.wilbur@skandinavistik.uni-freiburg.de
Former members
Archive menu | current webpage- Niko Partanen, M.A. (affiliated PhD student [University of Helsinki])
- Lena Terhart, M.A. (affiliated PhD student [University of Flensburg])
- Evgenia Zhivotova, M.A. (affiliated PhD student [University of Leipzig])
- Iris Perkmann (graduate student assistent)
- Hanna Thiele, M.A. (PhD student [HPSL scholarship] 2014–2017)
- Dorit Jackermeier (student assistant)
- Kateryna Olyzko (student assistant)
- Nadia Dobrodeyeva (student assistant)
- Maryna Litvak (student assistant)
- Anna-Sophia Mäder (student assistent)
- Olesya Polevaya (graduate assistant)
Past projects
Archive menu | current webpage- Syntactic patterns in Pite Saami: A corpus-based exploration of 130 years of variation and change
- funded by: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation)
- Principal investigator: Joshua Wilbur
- Planned duration: 7/2016-6/2019
- A corpus-based microtypology of word order in varieties of Saami and Kurdish
- funded by: HPSL scholarship at Promotionskolleg Empirische Linguistik (PEL)
- PhD student: Hanna Thiele
- Duration: 3/2014-2/2017
- Building an annotated digital corpus for future research on Komi speech communities in northernmost Russia (at the Department of Modern Languages, University of Uppsala)
- funded by: Koneen Säätiö / Kone Foundation
- Principle investigators: Michael Rießler [with Rogier Blokland (project administrator), Marina Fedina]
- PhD student: Niko Partanen
- Duration: 1/2014–12/2016
- The Pite Saami Lexicography Project
- funded by: Saami Parliament of Norway and Duoddara Ráfe Pite Saami Center
- Principle investigator: Joshua Wilbur
- Duration: 1/2016–6/2016
- A corpus-based comparative description of Kildin and Ter Saami
- funded by: DFG
- Principle investigator: Michael Rießler
- Duration: 7/2012–6/2016 (on hold 5–10/2013, 5–10/2014)
- Documentation and lexicography of semi-nomadic and sedentary Pite Saami lifestyles
- funded by: HRELP
- Principle investigator: Joshua Wilbur
- Duration: 2/2013–4/2015
- Indigeneity in the North: changing imaginative geographies of Sámi-Scandinavian contacts
- funded by: FRIAS und USIAS (as a part of the project Building the North with words. Geographies of scientific knowledge in European philologies 1850–1950)
- Postdoc researcher: Michael Rießler
- Duration: 5–10/2014
- Skolt Saami Language across Borders
- cooperation project with Østsamisk museum Neiden/Norway
- funded by: Norwegian Government (NOK 700,000 at Østsamisk museum)
- Project leader: Michael Rießler
- Duration: 5–12/2013
- Kleine saamische Schriften (Series, published at Nordeuropa-Institut)
- Co-editor: Michael Rießler
- Duration: 2008–2013
- Kola Saami Documentation Project (DoBeS)
- funded by Volkswagen Foundation (EUR 357.00 at Humboldt University Berlin)
- Project leaders: Jurij Kusmenko (Berlin) und Michael Rießler (Berlin, since 2008 Freiburg)
- Duration: 9/2005–12/2010
Past Events
Archive menu | current webpageSaami Research Seminar
Workshops and Conferences
2017
- Michael Rießler, Joshua Wilbur [with Tim Feist, Flore Picard] 3rd Saami Linguistics Symposium, 18-20 October 2017, Freiburg
- Michael Rießler [with Tommi A. Pirinen, Trond Trosterud, Francis M. Tyers] Third International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Uralic Languages, 23-24 January, St. Petersburg
2016
- [Michael Rießler, with Olga Ivanisheva, Tjeerd de Graaf] Conference Documentation, Standardization and Teaching of Endangered Languages in Northern Eurasia, 25-26 November, Murmansk
- PhD Workshop on Language Documentation, Corpus Building and Corpus-Based Studies, 20-21 July 2016 (organized by the research group)
2015
- [Michael Rießler, with Honna Havas] The Skolt Sámi Language Workshop 2015, 10-11 October 2015, Sevettijärvi
- Sámi Contemporary: A Symposium about Minorities and Identities, 22 September 2015, Berlin (co-organized by the research group and the Nordic Embassies in Berlin)
2014
- Michael Rießler and Joshua Wilbur: Workshop "Dokumentationslingvistik inom nordisk dialektologi", at Tionde nordiska dialektologkonferensen in Mariehamn/Åland, 20.–23. August 2014
- Michael Rießler [together with Joachim Grage (Freiburg) and Thomas Mohnike (Strasbourg)]: International workshop "Building the North with Words" at USIAS, 5.–6. June 2014
- Michael Rießler and Joshua Wilbur [together with René Harder (Alfter)]: Dokumentarfilmen für Linguisten, 9.–10. May 2014
- Ulrike Mosel (Kiel): Korpuslinguistische Untersuchungen mit dem Programm ELAN, 31 January 2014 (organized by the research group)
2013
- FRIAS Junior Researcher Conference: Applying Documentary Linguistics, 22nd–23rd November 2013, Freiburg
- funded by: FRIAS (EUR 8.000)
- Project leaders (organizers): Michael Rießler and Joshua Wilbur
2012
- The 11th International Conference of Nordic and General Linguistics, 18th–20th April 2012, Freiburg
- funded by: DFG (EUR 21.300)
- Project leaders (organizers): Michael Rießler (with Peter Auer, Janet Duke, Martin Hilpert, Christine Mertzlufft, Jan-Ola Östman, all Freiburg)
Winter School
2010
- DoBeS Winter School in Saami Language Documentation and Revitalisation, 1st–12th March 2010, Bodø
- organized by the Department of General and Comparative Linguistics at Kiel University
- organizers Jurij Kusmenko (Berlin), Bruce Morén (Tromsø), Ulrike Mosel (Kiel), Michael Rießler (Freiburg), Ida Toivonen (Ottawa)
Guest Lectures
2014
- Guillaume Enguehard (Paris): The Representation of Stress in Kildin and South Saami, 28 May 2014
2014
- Ulrike Mosel (Kiel): Reguläre Ausdrücke in der Korpuslinguistik bedrohter Sprachen, 31 January 2014
Public relations
2017
- "По стопам иврита: есть ли шанс у саамского языка" (Interview about the endangered Saami languages with Michael Rießler for BBC Russia), 29 November 2017
- "7000 Sprachen – wie und warum Forscher die sprachliche Diversität erforschen und bewahren möchten" (Invited lecture by Michael Rießler at the Bremer Gesellschaft zu Freiburg), 13 June 2017
- "200 Videos for Memory's Sake" (press release with video feature about the Izhva-Komi Documentation Project), 15 March 2017
- "Am 6. Februar feiert die Urbevölkerung Nordeuropas den Tag der Samen" (The indigenous people of Northern Europe celebrate Saami National Day on February 6th), including excepts from an interview with Joshua Wilbur, in the newspaper Badische Zeitung 6 February 2017
- National Geographic February 2017 (scientific consultation for the German language edition of the journal by Michael Rießler)
2016
- Die Saamen: Das indigene Volk des hohen Nordens (The Saami: the indigenous people of the far north); presentation for the general public at the Stuttgarter Buchwochen, Joshua Wilbur, 27 November 2016
- Expert in the spotlight, Mercator webpage featuring Michael Rießler at the "ask the expert-section" for July/August 2016
- "Vilken framtid har pitesamiskan?" (What does the future hold for the Pite Saami language?), Interview with several Pite Saami speakers and with Joshua Wilbur (starting at 5m06s) Swedish Saami Radio 1 January 2016
2015
- "Streit unter Europas Ureinwohnern", Interview with Michael Rießler for an article in the newspaper Der Tagesspiegel, Berlin 27 July 2015
- "The Case of Pite Saami: Endangered Languages and Documentary Linguistics", Presentation at the United World College Robert Bosch College, Freiburg, 14 April 2015
- "Die Hüter der Tundra", Presentation of the documentary film, with the director René Harder and Michael Rießler as guests, Freiburg Premier, KoKi Freiburg, 24 January 2015
2014
- "Wissen in Räumen", article on the interdisciplinary project Building the North with Words (in German), in FRIAS News 10
- "Kleine Sprachen – Großer Gewinn", article on Michael Rießler's research on Skolt Saami revitalization (in German), in Uni'leben 2014/4
- Provokante Grüße aus Lappland, press release about the launching of the book series Samica (in German), 7 October 2014
- Amerikansk språkforskare ger ut pitesamisk ordbok (North Saami and Swedish versions available), interview with Joshua Wilbur on Sameradion (Saami Radio), 2 October 2014
- Three European languages that you didn't know existed (includes an interview with Joshua Wilbur about the endangered Pite Saami language) in The Guardian, 26 September 2014
- Interview with Joshua Wilbur about documenting Pite Saami (in German), 4 March 2014
- Newsblog entry about Niko Partanen and the Izhva-Komi Documentation Project (in Russian), 13 February 2014
2013
- Interview on minority languages with Michael Rießler (in German), 13 May 2013, echo-fm 88,4
- Press release (in German) "Über Ländergrenzen hinweg", 2 May 2013
Past Presentations
Archive menu | current webpage2017
- Michael Rießler: "Data management, corpus building, archiving in Freiburg-based language documentation projects", CLARIN-D F-AG 3 Workshop, 5 October 2017, Hamburg
- Michael Rießler: "NLP in endangered language documentation: Building and investigating corpora for under-resourced languages of the Barents Sea region", Workshop: OV to VO, VO to OV, 23-24 June 2017, Bielefeld
- Michael Rießler: "NLP in endangered language documentation: Building and investigating corpora for under-resourced languages of the Barents Sea region", HUMSS Colloquium, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, 12 June 2017, Freiburg
- Michael Rießler [with Nikolay Hakimov]: "Fusion outside the clause: The case of vernacular Kildin Saami", Conference: Contact-Driven Multilingual Practices, 1–2 June 2017, Helsinki
- Michael Rießler: "Technology in Endangered Language Documentation and Description", Conference: Travaux de terrains anthropologiques et linguistiques: expériences et difficultés, 18-20 May 2017, Paris
- Michael Rießler [with Mervi de Heer, Terhi Honkola, Unni-Päivä Leino, Kaj Syrjänen, Outi Vesakoski]: "Basic vocabulary and the phylogenetic approach to the study of Uralic language history", Conference: Contextualizing Historical Lexicology, 15-17 May 2017, Helsinki
- Niko Partanen: "OCR", International Scientific Conference Electronic Writing of RF Peoples: History, Issues, and Perspectives, 16-17 March 2017, Syktyvkar, Komi Republic, Russia
- Michael Rießler: "Language Documentation meets Language Technology", International Scientific Conference Electronic Writing of RF Peoples: History, Issues, and Perspectives, 16-17 March 2017, Syktyvkar, Komi Republic, Russia
- Joshua Wilbur: "The Pite Saami lexicographic backbone", International Scientific Conference Electronic Writing of RF Peoples: History, Issues, and Perspectives, 16-17 March 2017, Syktyvkar, Komi Republic, Russia
- Michael Rießler: "Kildin Saami: News from the documentation and description of a severely endangered Uralic language", Guest lecture, 30 January 2017, Munich
- Michael Rießler [with Nikolay Hakimov]: "Fusion outside the clause: The case of vernacular Kildin Saami", Conference: From Language Mixing to Fused Lects, 25-27 January 2017, Freiburg
- Michael Rießler, Niko Partanen [with Ciprian Gerstenberger]: "Instant annotations: Applying NLP methods to the annotation of spoken language documentation corpora" (Poster), Third International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Uralic languages, 23 January 2017, St. Petersburg
- Michael Rießler: "From Lappology to Indigenous (Saami) Studies: History of ideas and history of research", Conference: Indigeneity in the Arctic: Local and Global Experiences, 19–20 January 2017, Helsinki
2016
- Michael Rießler: "News from the documentation and description of a severely endangered Uralic language", Conference: Documentation, Standardization and Teaching of Endangered Languages in Northern Eurasia, 25-26 November 2016, Murmansk
- Michael Rießler: "Kildin Saami: News from the documentation and description of a severely endangered Uralic language", Guest lecture, 16 December 2016, Helsinki
- Michael Rießler: "Saami languages and literatures in Russia", Conference: Journées Sames, 18–19 November 2016, Paris
- Michael Rießler: "Language documentation meets language technology (Building Saamic and Permic speech corpora)", Guest lecture, 11 November 2016, Tartu
- Michael Rießler: "Kildin Saami: News from the documentation and description of a severely endangered Uralic language", Guest lecture, 10 November 2016, Tartu
- Michael Rießler: "Utilizing open FST technology for the documentation and description of endangered northern Eurasian languages (Language documentation meets NLP)", INEL Kickoff-Workshop, 3-4 November 2016, Hamburg
- Michael Rießler: "Kildin Saami: News from the documentation and description of a severely endangered Uralic language", Guest lecture, 24 October 2016, Paris
- Michael Rießler: "Language documentation meets language technology", Guest lecture, 19 October 2016, Paris
- Joshua Wilbur: "Pitesamiskt ordboksarbete: på papper och på skärm", Samisk språk - fortid og nåtid, 29 October 2016, The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Oslo, Norway
- Joshua Wilbur: "Pitesamisk ordbok samt stavningsregler", Samiska kulturveckan, 3 October 2016, Arjepog, Sweden
- Michael Rießler [with Rogier Blokland]: "Typology and evolution of palatal and palatalised consonants in the languages of northeastern European Russia", 49th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, 31 August-3 September 2016, University of Naples Federico II, Naples
- Michael Rießler [with Anja Harder]: "Towards a universal ontology of noun phrase types in Uralic and other languages", Workshop on Typology of Uralic Languages: Towards Better Comparability, 49th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, 31 August-3 September 2016, University of Naples Federico II, Naples
- Michael Rießler [with Mervi de Heer, Terhi Honkola, Jenni Leppänen, Timo Rantanen, Outi Vesakoski]: "BEDLAN: Language data revealing human (pre)history", Workshop 'Archeogenetics in the Archipelago', 1-5 August 2016, Archipelago Research Institute of the University of Turku, Seili
- Michael Rießler: A survey of Kildin Saami literacy practices, Workshop on Endangered Languages and Endangered Literatures, 11 July 2016, Universität Bielefeld
- Joshua Wilbur: "Towards a Pite Saami lexicography: Creating a dictionary from a community-driven wordlist", Dictionary Journal Workshop, 9 April 2016, Institute for Linguistics, Universität Leipzig, Germany
- Joshua Wilbur: "Bidumsáme Báhkogirrje: Challenges and Opportunities in Producing Pite Saami Lexicographic Materials" Aktasne - Together: New concepts, theories and methodologies on Sami studies II 9-11 March 2016, Umeå universitet
- Michael Rießler [with Julia Reitze]: "Methods of Saami Language Documentation in Theory and Practice (Work with Legacy Data from the Extinct Neiden Dialect of Skolt Saami)" Aktasne - Together: New concepts, theories and methodologies on Sami studies II 9-11 March 2016, Umeå universitet
- Michael Rießler [with Rogier Blokland]: "Population contacts in the light of loanwords in easternmost and southernmost Saami". The Fennoscandian and Finno-Ugric past in the light of genes, languages and cultures, 10-11 February 2016, University of Turku
2015
- Michael Rießler: "News from Saami Language Documentation". Guest lecture at the University of Oulu, 10 December 2015
- Michael Rießler, Joshua Wilbur: Oral History Meets Linguistics, 3-4 December 2015, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies
- Michael Rießler: "News from Saami Language Documentation". Guest lecture at the University of Helsinki, 6 November 2015
- Niko Partanen, Michael Rießler, Hanna Thiele: "Exploring constituent order variation in selected languages of the Barents Sea area" Transalpine Typology Meeting, 8-9 October 2015, University of Lyon
- Michael Rießler, Niko Partanen, Joshua Wilbur [with Rogier Blokland]: "A critical evaluation of past, current and future approaches in Uralic language documentation" Congressus XII Internationalis Fenno-Ugristarum, 17-21 August 2015, Oulun yliopisto
- Michael Rießler: "Knowledge and Imagination in Human Zoo Parks. Saami Studies carried out during Ethnological Expositions in Central Europe" Geographies of Knowledge and Imagination, 11–12 June 2015, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies
- Joshua Wilbur: "Searching for Pite Saami: Language endangerment and documentary linguistics" Guest lecture at UWC Robert Bosch College, 14 April 2015, Freiburg
- Niko Partanen, Michael Rießler, Evgeniya Zhivotova: "Kildin Saami documentary sociolinguistics: Investigations on the variation and change in function words" Diversity Linguistics: Retrospect and Prospect, 1–5 May 2015, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig
- Joshua Wilbur: "Saving Pite Saami? a Case Study in Language Endangerment and Revitalization" Guest lecture at département d'Etudes Scandinaves, 9 April 2015, Université de Strasbourg
- Niko Partanen, Michael Rießler, Joshua Wilbur [with Rogier Blokland, Ciprian Gerstenberger, Marina Fedina]: "Language documentation meets language technology (Tutorial)" First International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Uralic Languages, 16 January 2015, Norges Arktiske Universität, Tromsø
2014
- Hanna Thiele [with Geoffrey Haig]: "Post-predicate goals in Northern Kurdish and neighbouring languages: A pilot study in quantitative areal linguistics" 2nd International Conference on Variation and Change in Kurdish, 8–10 October 2014, Mardin Artuklu University
- Joshua Wilbur: "Språkdokumentation och det pitesamiska språket", 5 October 2014, Samiska kulturveckan, Arjepog, Sweden
- Michael Rießler [with Jyri Lehtinen (Helsinki), Outi Vesakoski (Turku)]: "Modeling the linguistic diversification of Finno-Saamic languages" 47th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, 11–14 September 2014, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań.
- Michael Rießler: "Dokumentationslingvistik inom nordisk dialektologi" (introduktion till workshopen), Tionde nordiska dialektologkonferensen in Mariehamn/Åland, 20.–23. August 2014
- Joshua Wilbur: "Nordisk dialektologi och samisk språkdokumentation: Icke-nordiska språkmaterial som källa för nordisk dialektologi" Tionde nordiska dialektologkonferensen in Mariehamn/Åland, 20.–23. August 2014
- Michael Rießler: "Saami Studies at European universities since 1850", Building the North with Words, Strasbourg, 5.–6. June 2014
- Michael Rießler: "Saamische Sprachen und Sprachenpolitik in Nordeuropa" SLI, Freiburg, 27 January 2014.
2013
- Michael Rießler: "Skolt Saami across borders: А comparative description of language decline and revival in three countries" Language Revitalization in a Russian and European Context (MinorEuRus), Helsinki, 16.–18. December 2013
- Michael Rießler: "Saamskie jazyki na kol'skom poluostrove" Gastvortrag, Murmansk State Humanities University, 28. October 2013
- Joshua Wilbur: "Flexionsklassen im Pitesaamischen" 21. Arbeitstagung der Skandinavistik (ATDS), Freiburg, 24.–27. September 2013
- Michael Rießler und Joshua Wilbur: Dokumentation und Beschreibung bedrohter saamischer Sprachen (Project presentation), 18. Juni 2013, Universität Freiburg
- Michael Rießler: "Kola Sámi: Language documentation and language technology for the revitalization of endangered speech communities" Language Documentation: Past – Present – Future, Herrenhausen bei Hannover, 5.–7. Juni 2013
- Michael Rießler: "Språket som aldri forsvann. Skoltesamisk som eksempel" Plenarvortrag Rom for språk (2013), Universitetet i Bergen, 14–16 March 2013
2012
- Michael Rießler: "Lineare und nicht-lineare Morphologie im Kildinsaamischen (Uralisch)" Gastvortrag im Linguistischen Projektkolloquium, Seminar für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Zürich, 26. Oktober 2012
- Michael Rießler: "Digital infrastruktur og språkteknologi for skoltesamer i tre land" Nuõrttsääʹmǩiõl da kulttuur konferenss, Inari, 14.–15. Juni 2012.
- Michael Rießler: "Documentary linguistics meets language technology" Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, 17. Mai 2012.
- Joshua Wilbur: "Pite Saami under Swedish Rule(s): Bilingualism and contact-induced change in an endangered minority language". 11th International Conference of Nordic & General Linguistics, Universität-Freiburg, 19. April 2012
- Michael Rießler: "Skoltesamisk språk og revitaliseringen i tre land" Finnmark Internasjonale Litteraturfestival, Tur til Neiden, 3. März 2012.
Past Publications
Archive menu | current webpage2016
- Michael Rießler, Joshua Wilbur, Niko Partanen [with Ciprian Gerstenberger]. "Utilizing language technology in the documentation of endangered Uralic languages>." In: <em>Northern European Journal of Language Technology.<em> 4: 29-47.
- Michael Rießler [with Kristina Kotcheva]: Complementizers in Kildin, North and Skolt Saami. Semantic functions of complementizers in European languages (Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT]), ed. by Kaspar Boye and Petar Kehayov. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. (in print)
- Niko Partanen [with Janne Saarikivi]: Fragmentation of Karelian language and its community: growing variation at the threshold of the language shift. New and Old Language Diversities, ed. by Reetta Toivanen and Janne Saarikivi. Bristol: Multilingual Matters.
- Michael Rießler: Adjective attribution. (Studies in Diversity Linguistics 2). Berlin: Language Science Press. 2016.
- Joshua Wilbur (editor). Pitesamisk ordbok samt stavningsregler, Samica 2. Freiburg: Department of Scandinavian Studies, University Freiburg. 2016.
- Joshua Wilbur. "Stavningsregler." In: J. Wilbur (ed.), Pitesamisk ordbok samt stavningsregler, Samica 2. Freiburg: Department of Scandinavian Studies, University Freiburg. 2016.
- Joshua Wilbur [with N. Bengtsson, M. Eriksson, I. Fjällås, E. Rosenberg, G. Sivertsen, V. Sjaggo, D. Skaile, P. Steggo]. "Pitesamisk ordbok." In: J. Wilbur (ed.), Pitesamisk ordbok samt stavningsregler, Samica 2. Freiburg: Department of Scandinavian Studies, University Freiburg. 2016.
2015
- Niko Partanen, Michael Rießler, Joshua Wilbur [with Rogier Blokland, Ciprian Gerstenberger, Marina Fedina]: "Language documentation meets language technology" First International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Uralic Languages. Proceedings of the Workshop (Septentrio Conference Series, 2), ed by Tommi A. Pirinen, Francis M. Tyers, Trond Trosterud. Tromsø: The University Library of Tromsø. 8-18.
- Michael Rießler: Vom Matthäusevangelium zur Wikipedia: Medien für das bedrohte Kildinsaamische. Medien für Minderheitensprachen (Freiburger Romanistische Arbeiten), ed. by María Alba Niño and Rolf Kailuweit. Wien: Rombach, 2015. 127-158
- Michael Rießler [ed. with Heiko F. Martin, Janne Saarikivi, Reetta Toivanen]: Cultural and Linguistic Minorities in the Russian Federation and the European Union (Multilingual Education 13), Berlin: Springer, 2015
- Michael Rießler [with Florian Siegl (Helsinki)]. Uneven steps to literacy – The history of the Dolgan, Forest Enets and Kola Saami literary languages. Cultural and Linguistic Minorities in the Russian Federation and the European Union (Multilingual Education 13), ed. by Heiko F. Martin, Michael Rießler, Janne Saarikivi and Reetta Toivanen. Berlin: Springer, 2015
- Joshua Wilbur, 2015. “Pitesamisk språk - en introduksjon”. In Pitesamiske stedsnavn i Salten, L.M.Skarvik (ed). Drag: Báhko forlag.
2014
- Niko Partanen, Michael Rießler [together with Rogier Blokland, Marina Fedina, Andrej Čemyšev]: Использование цифровых корпусов и компьютерных програм в диалектологических исследованиях. In: Актуальные проблемы диалектологии языков народов России, ed. by F. G. Chisamitdinova. Ufa: IIJaL UNC RAN. 252-255.
- Joshua Wilbur: A grammar of Pite Saami. (Studies in Diversity Linguistics 5). Berlin: Language Science Press. 2014.
- Joshua Wilbur: Archiving for the community: Engaging local archives in language documentation projects. In: David Nathan & Peter K. Austin (eds) Language Documentation and Description, vol 12: Special Issue on Language Documentation and Archiving London: SOAS. 2014. 85-102.
- Joshua Wilbur: The Sony NEX-VG30 video camera: a review for use in language documentation Language Documentation & Conservation 8, 2014. 100-112.
2013
- Michael Rießler [with Elena Karvovskaya]: Purism in language documentation and description. Keeping languages alive: documentation, pedagogy and revitalization, ed. by Mari Jones & Sarah Ogilvie. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 83-97.
- Michael Rießler: Le same de Kildin face aux médias, une revitalisation de la langue? LʼImage du Sápmi 2 (Humanistica Oerebroensia. Artes et linguae), Textes réunis par Kajsa Andersson. Örebro: Örebro universitet. 422-443.
- Joshua Wilbur: A corpus-based grammar of spoken Pite Saami. Dissertation. Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel. 2013.
- Michael Rießler: Towards a digital infrastructure for Kildin Saami. Sustaining Indigenous Knowledge: Learning tools and community initiatives on preserving endangered languages and local cultural heritage (SEC Publications. Exhibitions & Symposia series), ed. by Erich Kasten and Tjeerd de Graaf. Fürstenberg: Verlag der Kulturstiftung Sibirien. 2013. 195-218.
2012
- Michael Rießler [mit Jurij Kusmenko]: К вопросу о твердых, мягких и полумягких согласных в кольскосаамском. Acta Fenno-Lapponica Petropolitana (Труды Института лингвистических исследований РАН; 8:1), ред. Н. В. Кузнецова, В. С. Кулешов & М. З. Муслимов. С.-Петербург: Наука. 2012. 20–41 PDF (gesamter Sammelband) 9.1MB
2011
- Joshua Wilbur [mit Riitta-Liisa Valijärvi]: The current state of the Pite Saami language: sociological and linguistic factors. Nordic Journal of Linguistics 34. 295-329.
- Joshua Wilbur: Think Globally, Archive Locally: Opportunities and Challenges in Working with Local Archiving Institutions. Proceedings of the Workshop on Language Documentation and Archiving, ed. by David Nathan. London: School of Oriental and African Studies. 51-58.
- Michael Rießler [mit Rogier Blokland]: Saami-Russian-Komi contacts on the Kola Peninsula. Language contact in times of globalization, ed by Cornelius Hasselblatt et al. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 5-26.
Past Teaching
Archive menu | current webpageSoSe 2016
- PROSEMINAR (Joshua Wilbur): Morphologie der nordeuropäischen Sprachen
WiSe 2015/16
6-11 July 2016
- LECTURE and TUTORIALS (Michael Rießler): The practice of documentation (tools, techniques, software), Kone Summer School on the Documentation and Description of Uralic languages
SoSe 2015
- VORLESUNG (Michael Rießler): Nordgermanisch, Ostslawisch, Ostseefinnisch, Saamisch (Grammatische Strukturen nordeuropäischer Sprachen kontrastiv)
9–14 February 2015
- LECTURE (Michael Rießler [with Rogier Blokland]): Introduction to Saami Studies, Finno-Ugric Studies International, Winter School Munich 2015
- LECTURE (Michael Rießler [with Rogier Blokland]): Introduction to the typology of Saamic languages, Finno-Ugric Studies International, Winter School Munich 2015
- LANGUAGE COURSE (Michael Rießler [with Rogier Blokland]): Kildin Saami, Finno-Ugric Studies International, Winter School Munich 2015
WiSe 2014/15
- VORLESUNG (Michael Rießler): Die Sprachenlandschaft Nordeuropas
- PROSEMINAR (Joshua Wilbur): Strukturkurs Pitesaamisch
SoSe 2014
- PROSEMINAR (Joshua Wilbur): Einführung in die Morphologie anhand der Sprachen Nordeuropas
WiSe 2013/14
- HAUPT/PROJEKTSEMINAR (Michael Rießler und Joshua Wilbur): Dokumentationslinguistik und Sprachtechnologie: Theorie und Praxis von angewandter Forschung in den "Digitalen Sprachwissenschaften"
SoSe 2013
- PROSEMINAR (Michael Rießler): Einführung in Grammatikographie – Die Kunst Grammatiken zu schreiben (und zu lesen)
WiSe 2012/13
- PROSEMINAR (Michael Rießler): Strukturkurs Skoltsaamisch
- SEMINAR (Kristina Kotcheva, Michael Rießler und Joshua Wilbur): Metodekurs og feltarbeid (Doktorandenkurs in Arjeplog/Schweden), Nordic Collaboration on Language Variation Studies (N'CLAV), 12.–16. Oktober 2012
SoSe 2011
- SPRACHKURS (Michael Rießler): Grundkurs Nordsaamisch II
WiSe 2010/11
- SPRACHKURS (Michael Rießler): Grundkurs Nordsaamisch I
- PROSEMINAR (Michael Rießler): Kontrastive Linguistik - Schwedisch, Nordsaamisch, Finnisch
SoSe 2010
- ÜBUNG (Michael Rießler): Nordsaamisch für Anfänger
- PROSEMINAR (Michael Rießler): Linguistische Strukturen des Nordsaamischen
- PROSEMINAR (Michael Rießler): Dokumentationslinguistik
WiSe 2009/10
- ÜBUNG (Michael Rießler): Kildin Saami fieldwork tutorial Pite Saami fieldwork tutorial (Doktorandenschule in Bodø/Norwegen), DoBeS Winterschool in Saami Language Documentation and Revitalization, 1.–12.3.2010
SoSe 2009
- HAUPTSEMINAR (Michael Rießler): Sprachen und Sprachkontakte im nördlichen Fennoskandien
Supervision of students
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2014–2017 (not finished)
- Hanna Thiele: Dissertation project (working title) "A Corpus-based microtypology of word order in varieties of Saami and Kurdish" (supervised by Michael Rießler)
Masters Theses
2015
- Nadia Dobrodeyeva: M.A. thesis on discourse particles in Komi-Russian language contact (supervised by Michael Rießler)
- Marie Ohm: MA thesis "Preglottalization and Glottal Stop in Danish and English Dialects: Typology and Evolution"student (supervised by Michael Rießler)
- Miriam Hecker: MA thesis "Relativsatzkonstruktionen im Pitesaamischen. Eine korpusbasierte Untersuchung" (supervised by Joshua Wilbur [second supervisor])
- Julia Reitze: MA thesis "Grundwortstellung und Satzverknüpfung im skoltsaamischen – Eine korpusbasierte Untersuchung" (supervised by Michael Rießler)
2013
- Mirko Tietgen (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin): M.A. thesis "Lexikographie bedrohter Sprachen am Beispiel des Kolasaamischen" (supervised by Michael Rießler [second supervisor])
Bachelor Theses
2015
- Lisa Bölzner: B.A. thesis on contrastive German-Swedish phraseology (supervised by Michael Rießler)
- Hanna Burkhardt: B.A. thesis on the morphology of recent English loan words in Swedish (supervised by Joshua Wilbur)
- Lilli Oksanen: B.A. thesis on the status and future of Swedish in Finland (supervised by Michael Rießler)
- Julia Böhringer: B.A. thesis on inflectional classes for Swedish nouns (supervised by Joshua Wilbur)
- Christina Davril: B.A. thesis "Die morphologische Kategorie 'Genus' in nordnorwegischen Dialekten" (supervised by Michael Rießler)
- Anke Kleiser: B.A. thesis "Saamische Fremd- und Lehnwörter im Norwegischen?" (supervised by Michael Rießler)
- Johanna Nickel: B.A. thesis on morphology in Arjeplog dialect (supervised by Joshua Wilbur)
- Jonas Weber: B.A. thesis on the phonological status of /r/ in southern Swedish dialects (supervised by Joshua Wilbur)
2014
- Regina Grasberger: B.A. thesis "Code-Switching im Pitesaamischen" (supervised by Joshua Wilbur)
- Annika Hartwig: B.A. thesis "Sollte Älvdalisch, wie Meänkieli, als eine regionale Minderheitensprache in Schweden anerkannt werden?" (supervised by Michael Rießler)
- Thomas Schleider: B.A. thesis "Lexikographie für bedrohte Sprachen – Beispiel Skoltsaamisch" (supervised by Michael Rießler)
- Teodora Tileva: B.A. thesis "Die reflexiven Possessivpronomen im Schwedischen kontrastiv analysiert" (supervised by Michael Rießler)
2013
- Richard Kowalik: B.A. thesis "Phonologie der Präaspiration im Südsaamischen" (supervised by Michael Rießler)
2010
- Mari Eveliina Lång: B.A. thesis "Meänkieli im Kontakt – Der Einfluss des Schwedischen und Saamischen auf die Entstehung einer Varietät" (supervised by Michael Rießler)
2009
- Xenia Vedutina: B.A. thesis "Konvergenz in der Phonologie, Morphologie und Syntax in den Sprachen Nordeuropas" (supervised by Michael Rießler)
Internships
2015
- Nadia Dobrodeyeva: Building a speech corpus for the investigation of code-switching between Russian and native languages of the Barents area (supervised by Michael Rießler)
2014
- Miriam Hecker (Scholarship from Svenska institutet): Digitizing and annotating Pite Saami legacy corpus data (supervised by Joshua Wilbur together with Ola Wennstedt [Umeå])
- Julia Reitze (Scholarship from Senter for internasjonalisering av utdanning): Digitizing and annotating Skolt Saami legacy corpus data (supervised by Michael Rießler together with Trond Trosterud [Tromsø])