Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm is a Russian-born linguist and typologist who is Professor of General Linguistics at Stockholm University.

Biography

Originally from

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, Koptjevskaja-Tamm's interest in linguistics was stimulated when as a teenager she participated in the Moscow Linguistics Olympiad, winning a medal. She graduated from

Moscow State University M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU; russian: Московский государственный университет имени М. В. Ломоносова) is a public research university in Moscow, Russia and the most prestigious ...

in 1979 and moved to Sweden in 1980, where she received her PhD in linguistics from Stockholm University in 1988. After working as a researcher on a project on part-of-speech systems in the world's languages, she was appointed

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in linguistics at Stockholm University in 1993, and was promoted to full professor in 2001. Koptjevskaja-Tamm was elected as member of the

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in 2010. Since 2018 she has been editor-in-chief of the journal Linguistic Typology.

Research

Koptjevskaja-Tamm carries out research in the field of linguistic typology, focusing on syntax and semantics. Her 2002 monograph on the structure and use of nominalizations across the world's languages is widely cited. Empirically her work has often focused on the Circum-

Baltic Baltic may refer to: Peoples and languages * Baltic languages, a subfamily of Indo-European languages, including Lithuanian, Latvian and extinct Old Prussian *Balts (or Baltic peoples), ethnic groups speaking the Baltic languages and/or originati ...

languages, which include

, Balto-Finnic, Germanic and Slavic languages. In 2015 she published a volume on how languages encode and conceptualize temperature.

Selected publications

* Dahl, Östen and Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm. 2001. Kinship in grammar. In Irène Baron, Michael Herslund and Finn Sørensen (eds.), ''Dimensions of possession'', 201–226. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. * Dahl, Östen and Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm (eds.). 2001. ''Circum-Baltic languages'', vol. 1: ''Past and present''. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. * Dahl, Östen and Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm (eds.). 2001. ''Circum-Baltic languages'', vol. 2: ''Grammar and typology''. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. * Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria. 2001. “A piece of the cake” and “a cup of tea”: Partitive and pseudo-partitive nominal constructions in the Circum-Baltic languages. In Dahl & Koptjevskaja-Tamm (eds.), vol. 2, 523–568. * Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria. 2002. ''Nominalizations''. London: Routledge. * Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria. 2003. Possessive noun phrases in the languages of Europe. In Frans Plank (ed.), ''Noun phrase structure in the languages of Europe'', 621–722. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. * Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria. 2008. Approaching lexical typology. In Martine Vanhove (ed.), ''From Polysemy to Semantic Change: Towards a typology of lexical semantic associations'', 3–52. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. * Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria (ed.). 2015. ''The linguistics of temperature''. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria Women linguists Linguists from Russia Finno-Ugrists Moscow State University alumni Living people Academic staff of Stockholm University Members of Academia Europaea Year of birth missing (living people)