The Grammar of Discourse Particles in Uralic
Team
Gerson Klumpp
Professor of Finno-Ugric Languages, Principal Investigator of the DiPU project
Gerson Klumpp joined the University of Tartu in 2011 as a professor of Finno-Ugric languages. His research interests include Samoyed languages, in particular the extinct Kamas language, Permic languages, and pragmatics and information structure as motivators of morphosyntactic structures. He is currently leading the project on the grammar of discourse particles in minor Uralic languages.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Klumpp-Gerson
https://www.etis.ee/CV/Gerson_Klumpp/eng/
Elena Markus
Associate Professor of Finnic Languages
Elena has done a lot of fieldwork with Votic and Ingrian languages and recorded hundreds of hours of both spontaneous speech and elicitation from the last native speakers. She has been using these materials in her research on the experimental phonetics, phonology, morphophonology, and morphology of Ingrian and Votic, paying much attention to language variation and the influence of language contact. In the DiPU project, Elena investigates the composition and functions of discourse particles in Ingrian and Votic.
https://www.etis.ee/CV/Elena_Markus/eng/
Denys Teptiuk
Research Fellow in Mordvin Languages
Denys is a post-doctoral researcher who concentrates in his work on quotative indexes and reported speech and thought primarily in Finno-Ugric languages (Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian, Komi, Udmurt and Erzya) but also beyond (Russian, English). In the project, Denys focuses on discourse particles/markers in Erzya (Mordvinic) and Selkup (Samoyedic). His interest is on how human sociality reflects in the use of discourse markers of various types, from particles to interjections and conjunctions.
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https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8753-6523
https://ut-ee.academia.edu/DenysTeptiuk
Triin Todesk
Research Fellow in South Estonian Varieties
Triin has long experience as a researcher of inflectional morphology and lexicon of South Estonian varieties and is well-acquainted with documenting minority languages. Her linguistic interests also include verbal semantics and degree gradation of verbs, her doctoral dissertation studied the use of the Komi clitic džyk as a degree intensifier of verbs. In the DiPU project, Triin works with modern spoken Seto, a variety of South Estonian spoken in South-East Estonia and the villages around Petseri in Russia. The data set consists of recordings starting from 2010.
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https://setko.ut.ee
Marili Tomingas
Research Fellow in Livonian language
Marili is a post-doctoral researcher and has written her doctoral thesis on the use of Courland Livonian pro-forms in spoken language. She is interested in lexical variation and different pragmatic functions of demonstratives and discourse particles, and in Latvian and Estonian influence on Livonian. In the project, she is researching Courland Livonian discourse particles based on the recordings with the last native Courland Livonian speakers.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Marili-Tomingas
https://www.etis.ee/CV/Marili_Tomingas/eng/
Eda-Riin Tuuling
Junior Research Fellow in Komi Language
Eda-Riin is writing her doctoral thesis on Komi demonstrative pronouns – their dialectal variation and functions, including their use as discourse markers. She has mostly worked with the Iźva dialect of Komi. Eda-Riin is interested in language variation and pragmatics. In the project, Eda-Riin is researching Komi discourse particles based on the Komi video corpus.
https://www.etis.ee/CV/Eda-Riin_Tuuling/eng/
Iuliia Zubova
Junior Research Fellow in Udmurt Language
Iuliia is writing her doctoral thesis on modal particles in Udmurt. Her work concerns the interaction between the semantics of modal particles and the grammatical and pragmatic features of the contexts they occur in. In her research, she uses the methods of linguistic questionnaires, experiments, and corpus analysis. In 2012-2019, Iuliia participated in the fieldwork project on the description of the language of Besermans in Northern Udmurtia. She worked on such topics as coordination, syntax and semantics of modal particles, indefinite pronouns, and dialectal variation. She has also collected and transcribed Udmurt spoken language data and participated in the Yazva Komi data collection in 2017.