Michael Rießler – Research
Head of the Freiburg Research Group in Saami Studies
Freiburg Research Group in Saami Studies
Contact
Office hours by appointment
Belfortstr. 16, 3.OG, Raum 3005
+49(0)761/203-3219
michael.riessler@skandinavistik.uni-freiburg.de
Foto: Rolf Arvola
Topics
Thematic focus
Language Documentation, Language Technology, Multilingualism, Sociolinguistics, Typology
Geographic area
Northern Europe (North Germanic, Saamic, Permic, Samoyedic)
Current book projects
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- [WORKING TITLE] Kildin and Ter Saami Documentation, Description and Language Technology
- [IN PRINT] Adjective attribution (Studies in Diversity Linguistics 2) Berlin: Language Science Press.
Fieldwork
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- Saamic languages
- March–April 2004 (Kola Peninsula/Russia: Umba, Lovozero, Murmansk, Olenegorsk, Apatity): Documentation of Ter Saami (funded by Gesellschaft für bedrohte Sprachen e.V. and the Department for Linguistics at the University of Leipzig
- September 2005–Februar 2011 (Kola Peninsula/Russia): Kola-Saami Documentation Project (a DoBeS project funded by VolkswagenStiftung)
- September 2011–Juli 2012 (Kola Peninsula/Russia, Norway, Finland): Regular fieldwork as an associated member of the project Skolt Saami culture across Borders at Nuõrttsaa´mi mu´zei, Njauddâm / Neiden
- Since July 2012 Kola Peninsula/Russia, Norway, Finland): Regular fieldwork for the project A corpus-based comparative grammar of Kildin and Ter Saami (funded by DFG)
- Komi-Zyrian
- February–March 2009 (Kola Peninsula/Russia): Documentation of the Iźva-variety of Komi-Zyrian (together with Rogier Blokland und Elena Karvovskaya)
- Since January 2014 (Barents Region/Russia): Regular fieldwork with speakers of diaspora Iźva-varieties of Komi-Zyrian at different locations in NW-Russia for the project Izhva Komi Documentation Project (funded by Koneen Säätiö)
- Swedish
- October 2012 (Norrbotten/Sweden): Documentation of northern Swedish dialects in Arjeplog and Piteå (together with Kristina Kotcheva), Nordic Collaboration on Language Variation Studies (N'CLAV)