PD Dr. Michael Rießler

Head of the Freiburg Research Group in Saami Studies

Freiburg Research Group in Saami Studies

Webpage at University of Eastern Finland

Contact

Office hours by appointment

michael.riessler@skandinavistik.uni-freiburg.de

Photo: Rolf Arvola (2011)

CV

currently	Senior Researcher in the project The Changing Environment of the North at University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu
2017–2019	Acting professor of General Linguistics in the Faculty for Linguistics and Literary Sciences, University of Bielefeld
2015	Habilitation, University of Turku, Venia Legendi in General and Finno-Ugric Linguistics
2017	Fellow at FRIAS
2016	Researcher at The Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights, University of Helsinki
2016	Visiting scholar at École normale supérieure, Paris
2016	Researcher at Department of Biology, University of Turku
2014-2016	Researcher at the Department of Scandinavian Studies
2015	Habilitation, University of Helsinki, Venia Legendi in Finno-Ugrian Studies
2014	Researcher at USIAS and FRIAS
2013-2014	Researcher at the Department of Scandinavian Studies
since 2013	Head of the Freiburg Research Group in Saami Studies
since 2013	Academic member of The Hermann Paul Centre for Linguistics
2013	Project manager at Østsamisk museum in Neiden (Norway)
2012-2013	Researcher at the Department of Scandinavian Studies
2011-2012	Researcher at Østsamisk museum in Neiden (Norway)
since 2011	Affiliated Postdoc at the Herman Paul School of Linguistics
2011	Researcher at the Centre for Sámi language technology (Giellatekno), UiT - Norway's Arctic University
2011	PhD in General Linguistics, Universität Leipzig
2008-2011	Assistant professor (non-tenured) at the Department of Scandinavian Studies
2005-2008	Researcher at the Department of Northern European Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
2002-2005	Graduate studies in General Linguistics at Universität Leipzig
2002	MA in Northern European Studies, European Ethnology and Bulgarian at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Teaching

(for a complete list of taught courses, see Michael Rießler – Teaching

WiSe 2015/16

KOLLOQUIUM (together with Joshua Wilbur): Saami Research Colloquium

Research

(see in more detail Michael Rießler – Research and Freiburg Research Group in Saami Studies)

Thematic

Language Documentation, Language Technology, Multilingualism, Sociolinguistics, Typology

Geographic area

Northern Europe (North Germanic, Saamic, Permic, Samoyedic)

Links

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Publications

(for a complete list, see Michael Rießler – Publications)

To appear

Michael Rießler. "Kildin Saami". In: Oxford Guide to the Uralic Languages, ed. by Marianne Bakró-Nagy, Johanna Laakso and Elena Skribnik. Oxford: OUP.

2017 (in print)

Ciprian Gerstenberger, Niko Partanen, and Michael Rießler. Instant annotations in ELAN corpora of spoken and written Komi, an endangered language of the Barents Sea region. In: Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages. ACL Anthology. Baltimore, Maryland, USA: Association for Computational Linguistics.

2017

Michael Rießler, Joshua Wilbur: Documenting endangered oral histories of the Arctic: A proposed symbiosis for language documentation and oral history research, illustrated by Saami and Komi examples. In: Oral history meets linguistics, ed. by Erich Kasten, Katja Roller, and Joshua Wilbur. Fürstenberg: Kulturstiftung Sibirien. 31-64.
Ciprian Gerstenberger, Niko Partanen, Michael Rießler, Joshua Wilbur. Instant annotations - Applying NLP methods to the annotation of spoken language documentation corpora. In: Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Uralic languages, ed. by Tommi A. Pirinen, Michael Rießler, Trond Trosterud, Francis M. Tyers. (=ACL Anthology). Baltimore, Maryland, USA: Association for Computational Linguistics, 25-36.

2016

Michael Rießler. Adjective attribution. Berlin: Language Science Press.
Kristina Kotcheva, Michael Rießler: Clausal complementation in Kildin, North and Skolt Saami. Complementizer semantics in European languages, ed. by Kaspar Boye and Petar Kehayov. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. 499-528.
Ciprian Gerstenberger, Niko Partanen, Michael Rießler, and Joshua Wilbur. Utilizing language technology in the documentation of endangered Uralic languages. In: Northern European Journal of Language Technology 4. 29-47.

Presentations

(for a complete list, see Michael Rießler – Presentations

Miscellaneous

Michael Rießler Mercator Expert in the Spotlight July/August 2016.

Manuscript of a teaching book for Skolt Saami (in Norwegian).

Skolt Saami linguistic landscapes in Norway A contribution the the discussion about the use of Skolt Saami on road signs and maps in Norwan.

Kildin Saami Alphabet The document includes data on the letter inventory and sort order for Kildin Saami.

Ter Saami Alphabet The document includes data on the letter inventory and sort order for Ter Saami

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