Michael Rießler

Michael Rießler, also transcribed Michael Riessler, (born 16 February 1971) is a German linguist and professor at the University of Eastern Finland since August 2020.

Biography

Rießler was born in Bad Belzig. He grew up in the village of Borne, today a district of Bad Belzig, in the former East Germany, where his parents worked at a collective farm. He went to school in Belzig, studied agriculture and in 1990 completed his high school education with passing the Abitur at the Betriebsberufsschule des Volkseigenes Gutes Kaltenhausen in Jüterbog. From 1990 to 1991 he did his civil service service in Potsdam and then studied Nordic languages, European ethnology and Bulgarian at the Humboldt University of Berlin. In 2002 he completed a Master of Philosophy with a thesis on the influence of Sámi languages on Norwegian and Swedish dialects. His thesis, entitled , was supervised by German scholar . Rießler and Kusmenko had already published a joint paper on Southern Sámi in 2000. In 2011 Rießler defended his doctoral thesis in linguistics at the University of Leipzig under the supervision of language typologist Balthasar Bickel.

Research

Rießler has published scientific articles on North Germanic and Sámi languages and Komi, among other things in the fields of language typology, sociolinguistics, language documentation and language technology. Rießler's research interests also include Sámi literature. From 2008 to 2014 he was editor of the book series '' Kleine saamische Schriften'' (together with Elisabeth Scheller). Since 2014 he publishes (together with Thomas Mohnike and ) the journal '' Samica''.

After graduation, Rießler worked at several universities, including in Germany, Norway and Finland, and conducted extensive field research, especially on the Kola Peninsula and in other areas of northwest Russia. He has also worked for the .

2014 and 2017–2018 Rießler had Fellowships at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies. In autumn 2016 he was visiting professor at the École Normale Supérieure For three semesters between 2017 and 2019 he was a representative of the Chair of General Linguistics at Bielefeld University. In 2015 he was appointed as Privatdozent at the University of Helsinki ( ''venia docendi'' in Finno-Ugric languages) and in 2018 at the University of Turku (''venia docendi'' in general and Finno-Ugric linguistics). In 2020 Rießler was appointed Professor of general linguistics at the University of Eastern Finland.

Publications (selected)

Monography

* 2016
Adjective attribution
'. Berlin: Language Science Press.

Article

* 2020 " Partial fusion in long-term bilingualism: The case of vernacular Kildin Saami, in: ''International Journal of Bilingualism'' (with Nikolaj Hakimov)
* 2017
Documenting endangered oral histories of the Arctic : a proposed symbiosis for endangered language documentation and oral history research, illustrated by Saami and Komi examples
, in: ''Oral History meets Linguistics''. Fürstenberg: Kulturstiftung Sibirien, p. 31–64 (with )
* 2016 " Utilizing language technology in the documentation of endangered Uralic languages", in: ''Northern European Journal of Language Technology'' 4, p. 29–47 (with Ciprian Gerstenberger, Niko Partanen, Joshua Wilbur)
* 2011
Komi-Saami-Russian contacts on the Kola peninsula
', in: ''Language contact in times of globalization''. Amsterdam: Rodopi, p. 5–26 (with Rogier Blokland)
* 2004 ''On the origin of preaspiration in North Germanic'', in: ''Journal of Indo-European Monograph Series'' 49, p. 168–185
* 2002
Der partitive Artikel in nordskandinavischen Dialekten
', in: ''TijdSchrift voor Skandinavistiek'' 23:1, p. 43–62
* 2000
Traces of Sámi-Scandinavian contact in Scandinavian dialects
', in: ''Languages in Contact''. Amsterdam: Rodopi, p. 209–224 (with )

Edition

* 2019 ''Worte verschwinden fliegen zum blauen Licht : Samische Lyrik von Joik bis Rap''. Freiburg: Skandinavisches Seminar der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität (with Johanna Domokos, Christine Schlosser).
* 2015 ''Cultural and linguistic minorities in the Russian Federation and the European Union : Comparative studies on equality and diversity''. Cham: Springer (with Heiko F. Marten, Janne Saarikivi, Reetta Toivanen).
* 2015 ''New trends in Nordic and General Linguistics''. Berlin: De Gruyter (with Martin Hilpert, Jan-Ola Östman, Christine Mertzlufft, Janet Duke).

References

External links

Michael Rießler
in Libris

Michael Rießlers Profile auf der Webseite der Universität Ostfinnland
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1971 births
Living people
20th-century linguists
21st-century linguists
Linguists from Germany
Linguists of Sámi
Humboldt University of Berlin alumni
Leipzig University alumni
German emigrants to Finland