Enriching the view of path lexicalisation in satellite-framed languages: Ascending and descending Paths in Finnish, English, and translations between them Building a bridge between cognitive linguistics and translation studies, the presentation discusses Path lexicalisation patterns in ascending and descending motion in two non-related languages – Finnish and English and translations between them – considered to […]

Speech Acts in Multicultural Workplace Meetings: Institutional Roles, Meeting Purposes, and Pragmatic Realisation This article looks at how speech acts are used in multicultural workplace meetings where English is the common language in a Finnish company. It uses Speech Act Theory to study 2,569 speech acts that were manually identified from ten meetings, which together […]

April 15, 2026 Miina Norvik (University of Tartu): “Continuity and change of structural features: the example of Finnic” Abstract The aim of the talk is to examine phonological and morphosyntactic features from an areal typological perspective, considering both continuity and change. The analysis centers on southern Finnic varieties, while northern Finnic varieties are considered for background. […]

April 15, 2026 Miina Norvik (University of Tartu): “Continuity and change of structural features: the example of Finnic” Abstract The aim of the talk is to examine phonological and morphosyntactic features from an areal typological perspective, considering both continuity and change. The analysis centers on southern Finnic varieties, while northern Finnic varieties are considered for background. […]