Alho Alhoniemi (born 1933 in
Suomussalmi) is a Finnish linguist specializing in the
Finno-Ugric languages.
Alhoniemi graduated from high school in 1952 in
Kannus.
He obtained his PhD in 1967 with a thesis about the
lative case
In grammar, the lative (; abbreviated ) is a grammatical case which indicates motion to a location. It corresponds to the English prepositions "to" and "into". The lative case belongs to the group of the general local cases together with the locati ...
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Mari and served as professor of Finno-Ugric linguistics at the
University of Turku from 1971 to 1996.
He was appointed member of the
Finnish Academy of Science and Letters in 1981 and received an honorary doctorate from
Uppsala University in 1994. He served as chairman of the Society for the Finnish Language (''Suomen Kielen Seura'') from 1971 to 1979.
His research interests include the syntax of the
Mari and
Mordvinic languages.
In 1985, he published an extensive grammar of Mari in Finnish, which was translated into German in 1993.
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1933 births
Members of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters
Living people
Academic staff of the University of Turku
Finnish Finno-Ugrists
People from Suomussalmi