| Kalevi Wiik | |
During the last ten years (1993-2003), my main concern has been the origins of the Europeans. In September 2002, I completed a Finnish paper-book "Eurooppalaisten juuret" (The Roots of the Europeans) of about 500 pages, and in May 2003 I finished an English electrical book "A NEW ATLAS on the Origins and Early History of the Europeans". The Atlas is based mainly on the maps of the paper-book and contains about 250 archaeological, genetic, and linguistic maps. If you are interested in knowing more about the Atlas, click HERE to get to the DEMO of the Atlas. To buy the whole Atlas (as a CD-rom) click HERE. |
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Facts about my life and work: I was born at Turku, Finland, August 2, 1932. Candidate of Philosophy, University of Turku, 1955 Master of Arts (Linguistics) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA 1958 One year's teacher training (English), Normal School of Turku, 1958 Licentiate of Philosophy (English Philology and Phonetics), University of Turku, 1960 Doctor of Philosophy, University of Turku, 1965 Assistant in Phonetics, University of Turku 1959-1966 Lecturer in Phonetics, University of Turku 1965-1968 Docent in Phonetics, University of Turku 1966-1968 Acting Professor in General Linguistics, University of Helsinki 1966-1968 Acting Professor in English Philology, University of Turku 1964-1968 Docent in Phonetics and Linguistics, University of Joensuu 1979-1997 Acting Professor in Linguistics, University of Texas, Austin, 1973 Director of the Department of Finnish and General Linguistics for two two-year periods Dean of the Humanities Faculty of the University of Turku 1974-76 and 1988-1989 Chairman of the Linguistics Association of Finland 1976-1981 Director of the Language Centre of the University of Turku 1979-1982 Member of the Finnish Academy of Science 1980- Honorary Doctor of the University of Tartu, Estonia 1991 Reward for scientific merits awarded by the Alfred Kordelin Foundation 1992 Maarjamaa Cross awarded by the President of Estonia 2001 "Eurooppalaisten juuret" was chosen among the six best informative books in Finland (Tieto-Finlandia) in 2002 "Eurooppalaisten juuret" was chosen among the five best history books in Finland in 2002 |
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Publications My scientific publications represent the following eight fields:(1) General phonetics and phonology (both taxonomic and generative) (2) Experimental phonetics of Standard Finnish and Finnish dialects (3) Phonetics of Estonian and some other Finnic languages (4) Finnish-English contrastive phonetics (5) Morphology of Finnish and some other Finnic languages (6) General and Finnish syntax (mostly generative) (7) History of grammar writing in Finland (8) The Roots of the Finns and other Europeans |
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Examples of individual publications. Most of the following publications are monographs, and, unfortunately, most of them are in Finnish. The publications written in English or German are printed in bold in the list. (1) Finnish and English Vowels. A Comparison with special reference to the learning problems met by native speakers of Finnish learning English. Väitöskirja, Turun yliopiston julkaisuja, Sarja B, Osa 94, 1965. |
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