Alho Alhoniemi

Finnish linguist

Alho Alhoniemi (born 1933 in Suomussalmi) is a Finnish linguist specializing in the Finno-Ugric languages.^[1]

Alhoniemi graduated from high school in 1952 in Kannus.^[2] He obtained his PhD in 1967 with a thesis about the lative case in Mari^[2] and served as professor of Finno-Ugric linguistics at the University of Turku from 1971 to 1996.^[1] He was appointed member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters in 1981^[3] and received an honorary doctorate from Uppsala University in 1994.^[4] He served as chairman of the Society for the Finnish Language (Suomen Kielen Seura) from 1971 to 1979.^[5]

His research interests include the syntax of the Mari and Mordvinic languages.^[1] In 1985, he published an extensive grammar of Mari in Finnish, which was translated into German in 1993.^[6]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Alhoniemi, Alho". Uppslagsverket Finland (in Swedish). 2016-03-11. Retrieved 2018-08-25.
^ ^a ^b Kulonen, Ulla-Maija (1993). "Alho Alhoniemi 60 vuotta". Virittäjä. 97 (2): 228–232.
^ "Kotimaiset jäsenet" (in Finnish). Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia. Archived from the original on 2018-06-12. Retrieved 2018-08-25.
^ "Humanistiska fakultetens hedersdoktorer". Uppsala universitet (in Swedish). Retrieved 2018-08-25.
^ "Historia". Suomen Kielen Seura (in Finnish). Retrieved 2018-08-25.
^ Hilpert, Martin; Östman, Jan-Ola; Mertzlufft, Christine; Riessler, Michael; Duke, Janet (2015). New Trends in Nordic and General Linguistics. Berlin: De Gruyter. p. 153. ISBN 978-3-11-034697-8. OCLC 906873217.