To this date the group has organised 46 meetings with invited speakers, 6 workshops, 3 seminars, and 6 fieldwork seminars, in addition to a number of field excursions. Activities are often organised in collaboration with our host departments and the doctoral programme for language studies, Helslang.
| Year | Date | Time | Venue | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Sep. 26th | 14:15-15:45 | Sali 7 | HALS meeting (XLVII), with a talk by Maria Konoshenko (University of Helsinki) and Maria Khachaturyan (University of Helsinki/CNRS, Paris): Ethical clearance in linguistic ethnography: Seeking informed consent as multilingual practice. |
| 2025 | Oct. 17th-28th | Field excursion to Azerbaijan | ||
| 2025 | Oct. 31st | 14:15-15:45 | Sali 7 | HALS meeting (XLVIII), with a talk by Tihomir Rangelov (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology): Colonisation-induced grammatical change in Vanuatu’s indigenous languages. |
| Year | Date | Time | Venue | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Sep. 4th | 14:00-17:00 | Juhlasali, Kielikeskus | Ekaterina Gruzdevan 60-vuotisjuhlaseminaari |
| 2025 | Jun. 6th | 14:15-15:45 | Päärakennus U3039 | HALS meeting (XLVI), with a talk by Michael Ewing (University of Melbourne): Interlocutor Reference in Plurilingual Indonesia. |
| 2025 | Apr. 25th | 14:15-15:45 | HCAS Common room (Fabianinkatu 24A) | HALS meeting (XLV): Book launch of The Oxford Guide to the Atlantic languages of West Africa, edited by Friederike Lüpke, together with HCAS. |
| 2025 | Mar. 28th | 14:15-15:45 | Sali 8 | HALS meeting (XLIV), with a talk by Chundra Cathcart (University of Zürich): The evolutionary dynamics of communicative efficiency in the lexicon. |
| 2025 | Jan. 31st | 14:15-15:45 | Sali 24 | HALS meeting (XLIII) with a talk by Katharina Tyran (University of Helsinki): Silenced from above, subversive on the ground: Policies and practices in multilingual settings in Austria. |
| 2024 | Nov. 29th | 14:15-15:45 | Sali 25 |
HALS fieldwork seminar (VI) on the field trip to Kyrgyzstan, with the following talks: Ekaterina Gruzdeva: Introduction |
| 2024 | Nov. 15th | 14:15-15:45 | Sali 7 | HALS meeting (XLII) with a talk by Ljuba Veselinova (Stockholm University): GIS and linguistic cartography. |
| 2024 | Sep. 27th | 14:15-15:45 | Sali 8 |
HALS meeting (XLI): Linguistic landscape research, a joint workshop between HALS and Langnet Writing Systems theme group, with talks by Leena Kolehmainen, Sofie Henricson, Ekaterina Gruzdeva and Juha Janhunen, Bojana Damnjanović, and Friederike Lüpke. Read more about the workshop here. |
| 2024 | June 11th | 09:00-16:00 | Sali 4 | HALS workshop (VI): Innovating methodology and theory in linguistic fieldwork. |
| 2024 | May 17th | 14:15-15:45 | Sali 7 | HALS meeting (XL) with a talk by Ana Vilacy Galucio (Emilio Goeldi Museum of Pará): Integrating language documentation, description and revitalization. |
| 2024 | Feb. 23rd | 14:15-15:45 | Sali 7 | HALS meeting (XXXIX) with a talk by Ekaterina Gruzdeva and Juha Janhunen (University of Helsinki): Khamnigan: languages and ethnicity. |
| 2024 | Jan. 26th | 14:15-15:45 | Sali 7 | HALS meeting (XXXVIII) with a talk by Emma Kurkinen, Antti Laine and Silva Nurmio (University of Helsinki): Bantu noun class systems in the typology of individuation and unitization. |
| 2023 | Sep. 29th | 14:15-15:45 | Sali 8 | HALS meeting (XXXVII) with a talk by Svetlana Vetchinnikova (University of Helsinki): Disciplinary communities: contact, variation and change. |
| 2023 | June 16th | 14:15-15:45 | Sali 11 | HALS meeting (XXXVI) with a talk by Abel Warries (University of Leiden): Investigating a prehistoric language contact hypothesis: Tocharian and Uralic. |
| 2023 | May 19th | 14:15-15:45 | Sali 8 | HALS fieldwork seminar (V) on the LingDig field trip to Timișoara, Romania, with an introduction by Andrei Dumitrescu and the following talks by the students and organizers: Kristina Sherrill: Language attitudes of minority Hungarian speakers in Temesvár Anna Sedláčková: Sociolinguistic situation in Timișoara with a focus on the Serbian speaking minority Monika Murgová & Anna Busheva: Observations on the sociolinguistics and phonetic features of the Slovak language in Nădlac Mikhail Zolotilin & Jonathan Banks: Banat Swabian: Sociolinguistic situation, with some phonetic and morpho-syntactic features Natchanun Sanitdee: Topics in the morphosyntax of Banat Swabian Andrei Dumitrescu: Patterns of Romanian-German bilingualism at the Nikolaus Lenau high school |
| 2023 | Apr. 28th | 14:15-15:45 | Sali 25 | HALS networking seminar for researchers of linguistic and cultural diversity. |
| 2023 | Mar. 31st | 14:30-16:00 | Sali 25 | HALS meeting (XXXV) with a talk by Maria Konoshenko (Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies): The grammaticalization of quotative constructions: What happens to the addressees? |
| 2023 | Feb. 24th | 14:15-15:45 | Sali 7 | HALS meeting (XXXIV) with a talk by Vlada Baranova (Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies): ‘Mixed Kalmyk’: new speakers, language attitudes and the language change. |
| 2023 | Jan. 27th | 14:15-15:45 | Sali 7 | HALS meeting (XXXIII) with a talk by Mansour Shabani (University of Guilan): The two faces of a nominal linker: Another look at Reverse Ezafe in Gilaki. |
| 2022 | Nov. 25th | 14:15-15:45 | Sali 24 | HALS meeting (XXXII) with a talk by Sidney Facundes (Universidade Federal do Pará): Descriptive and typological issues in describing a grammar for an Amazonian language. |
| 2022 | Nov. 11th | 14:15-15:45 | Sali 7 | HALS meeting (XXXI) with a talk by Juhani Järvikivi (University of Alberta): Putting the social into psycholinguistics - political views and personality in language processing. |
| 2022 | Oct. 28th | 14:15-15:45 | Sali 8 | HALS meeting (XXX) with a talk by Anja Arnhold (University of Alberta): Prosodic typology, prosody-syntax trade-offs and linguistic complexity. |
| 2022 | Sep. 30th | 14:15-15:45 | Sali 8 | HALS meeting (XXIX) with a talk by Francesco Gardani (University of Zürich): The borrowability of derivation: A typological overview. |
| 2022 | June 10th | 14:15-15:45 | Sali 8 and Zoom | HALS meeting (XXVIII) with a talk by Alexis Rojas and Silva Nurmio (University of Helsinki): Higher-order network modeling reveals the multiscale modular organization of semantic communities in the world’s largest colexification network (CLICS). |
| 2022 | May 20th | 10:15-11:45 | Sali 18 and Zoom | HALS meeting (XXVII) organized by Chingduang Yurayong, Sumittra Suraratdecha (Mahidol University), Ekaterina Gruzdeva (University of Helsinki) and Toshihide Nakayama (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies): Future directions and potentials in description, ecology and sociology of language. |
| 2022 | Apr. 29th | 14:15-15:45 | Sali 8 and Zoom | HALS meeting (XXVI) with a talk by Friederike Lüpke (University of Helsinki): Contact, concord, classification: noun class systems and categorisation in a multilingual area. |
| 2022 | Feb. 18th | 14:15-15:45 | Sali 25 and Zoom | HALS meeting (XXV) with a talk by Mark Ellison (University of Cologne): Linguistic Prominence and Modelling Language. |
| 2022 | Jan. 28th | 14:15-15:45 | Zoom | HALS fieldwork seminar (IV) on the LingDig field trip to Estonia, with an introduction by Ksenia Shagal and three talks by the students: Sara Carrier-Bordeleau: Linguistic Landscapes in Tallinn (and in general) Héloïse Calame: Variation in Estonian negation Anna Busheva: Influence of Estonian on the phonetics of Russian |
| 2021 | Nov. 26th | 14:15-15:45 | Zoom | HALS meeting (XXIV) with a talk by Kaius Sinnemäki and Seppo Kittilä (University of Helsinki): Studies on Finnish from a typological(-functional) perspective. |
| 2021 | Oct. 29th | 14:15-15:45 | Zoom | HALS meeting (XXIII): Discussion on the difficulties of fieldwork during the COVID-19 pandemic and ways to overcome them. The meeting will begin with 5 minute introductions by several researchers who have done or were planning to do fieldwork recently (Sara Carrier-Bordeleau, Rahel Dires, Andrei Dumitrescu, Richard Kerbs, Anette Ross, and Saana Santalahti) followed by free discussion. |
| 2021 | Sep. 10th | 14:15-15:45 | Zoom | HALS meeting (XXII) with a talk by Kristian Roncero (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology & FSU-Jena): Suppletion meets sociolinguistically neutral variation. Descriptive challenges in West Polesian (East Slavic). |
| 2021 | Aug. 27th | 14:15-15:45 | Zoom | HALS meeting (XXI) with a talk by Kaius Sinnemäki (University of Helsinki): Publishing UH typological/diversity linguistics data openly II. |
| 2021 | June 11th | 10:15-11:45 | Zoom | HALS meeting (XX): Introduction of ongoing research at HALS. Eeva Sippola: Language endangerment and migration in the Philippine Creole communities (slides) Ekaterina Gruzdeva: Languages of Russia in the 21st century Olesya Khanina: Historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, and linguistic geography: a study of language diversification and spread at the Siberian North (slides) Daniela Casartelli: Language emerging from human sociality: the case of speech representation Lotta Aunio: A Multilectal Grammar: The Western Serengeti languages (slides) Matti Miestamo: Research on negation in a typological perspective Silva Nurmio & Rahel T. Dires: Typology of singulatives (slides) |
| 2021 | May 28th | 14:15-15:45 | Zoom | HALS meeting (XIX) with a presentation by Matti Miestamo, Ksenia Shagal and Olli Silvennoinen (University of Helsinki): Negation in Clause-Combining – Project Presentation (project website). |
| 2021 | Apr. 23rd | 10:15-11:45 | Zoom | HALS meeting (XVIII): Introduction of linguistic research at Mahidol University (introductory slides). Sophana Srichampa: Language policy for unskilled migrant workers in Thailand (slides) Mayuree Thawornpat: Community-based language revitalization in Thailand (slides) Sumittra Suraratdecha: Youth engagement in language and cultural revitalization (slides) Siripen Ungsitipoonporn: Digital archiving of languages and cultures of ethnic groups of Thailand (archive link) Siripen Ungsitipoonporn, Sarawut Kraisame & Chingduang Yurayong: Digital platform for language diversity in Thailand (slides) Pattama Patpong: Language of death and language of depression (slides) |
| 2020 | Nov. 27th | 14:15-15:45 | Zoom | HALS meeting (XVII) with a presentation by Eri Kashima (University of Helsinki): The sociolinguistics of divergence? Qualitative and quantitative data on Nmbo, a multilingual Papuan speech community. |
| 2020 | Oct. 30th | 14:15-15:45 | Zoom | HALS meeting (XVI) with a presentation by Olesya Khanina (Institute of Linguistics RAS & Finno-Ugrian Society & University of Helsinki): The rise of linguistic diversity at the Lower Yenisei (Siberia). |
| 2020 | Feb. 28th | 14:15-15:45 | Sali 25 | HALS meeting (XV) with presentations by Jack Rueter, Niko Partanen and Kaius Sinnemäki (University of Helsinki): From Fieldwork Collections to Universal Dependencies. |
| 2020 | Jan. 24th | 15:00-17:00 | Sali 4 | HALS meeting (XIV): introduction of the ERC project "Linguistic Adaptation" (University of Helsinki) and its team members. Kaius Sinnemäki: Introduction Francesca Di Garbo: Linguistic variation and adaptation in nominal morphosyntax: some insights from previous and ongoing research Eri Kashima: Variation and descriptive sociolinguistics from Southern New Guinea Ricardo Napoleão de Souza: Phonetic variation and (morpho)phonological change from cross-linguistic and typological perspectives. |
| 2019 | Dec. 19th | 16:15-17:45 | Sali 11 | HALS meeting (XIII) with a presentation by Katia Chirkova (CRLAO, CNRS): stress and tone in Lizu (Tibeto-Burman). |
| 2019 | Sep. 27th | 14:15-15:45 | Sali 27 | HALS meeting (XII) with a presentation by Michael “Mitcho” Yoshitaka Erlewine (National University of Singapore): Patterns of relativization in Austronesian and Tibetan. |
| 2019 | May 14th | 14:15-15:45 | Sali 12 | HALS meeting (XI) with a presentation by Nikolai Vakhtin (European University at St. Petersburg): Yukaghir heritage pictography: Transmission of the Arctic traditional knowledge. |
| 2019 | May 3rd | 12:00-17:00 | Sali 8 | HALS workshop (V) on areality. 12:00-13:00 – Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm: Areal patterns in lexical semantics 13:00-14:00 – Johanna Nichols: Recent findings on north Eurasian areal-typological evolution 14:00-14:30 – Coffee break 14:30-15:15 – Ekaterina Gruzdeva & Juha Janhunen: Patterns of morphosyntactic transformation in the Amur Linguistic Area 15:15-16:00 – Max Wahlström & Maxim Makartsev: The study of the Balkan Linguistic Area in 2020s 16:00-16:30 – Riho Grünthal: Causative verbs in Uralic: basic patterns and deviations 16:30-17:00 – Janne Saarikivi: Etymology, typology and areality. |
| 2019 | Apr. 12th | 16:00-17:30 | Sali 11 | HALS meeting (X) with a presentation by Nicolas Tournadre (Aix-Marseille University): Evidential strategies and accessibility hierarchies. |
| 2019 | Mar. 22nd | 14:15-15:45 | Sali 7 | HALS meeting (IX) with a presentation by Maria Konoshenko (Russian State University of the Humanities / Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences): Grammatical tone: between phonology and morphology. |
| 2018 | Dec. 7th | 14:15-15:45 | Sali 12 | HALS meeting (VIII) with a presentation by Östen Dahl (Stockholm University): Studying tense and aspect in a massive parallel corpus. |
| 2018 | Nov. 30th | 14:15-15:45 | Sali 12 | HALS meeting (VII) with a presentation by Kaius Sinnemäki (University of Helsinki): Linguistic adaptation - a new ERC project in the HALS research network. |
| 2018 | Oct. 26th | 10:00-16:00 | Sali 4 | HALS seminar (II) on sociolinguistic conditions of language change with a focus on historical, typological and areal approaches. Keynote speaker: Mikael Parkvall (Stockholm University). Other speakers: Erika Sandman (University of Helsinki); Hanna Lantto (University of Eastern Finland); Max Wahlström (University of Helsinki); Terttu Nevalainen, Tanja Säily and Turo Vartiainen (University of Helsinki). |
| 2018 | Apr. 27th | 14:15-15:45 | Sali 17 | HALS meeting (VI) with a presentation by Ekaterina Gruzdeva and Nailya Philippova (University of Helsinki): Urban multilingualism in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area. |
| 2018 | Mar. 23rd | 14:15-15:45 | Sali 17 | HALS meeting (V) with a presentation by Ksenia Shagal and Max Wahlström (University of Helsinki): (Non-)finiteness in dependent clauses, a typological study. |
| 2018 | Feb. 23rd | 14:15-15:45 | Sali 17 | HALS meeting (IV) with a presentation by Thera Crane (University of Helsinki): Evaluating approaches to aspect in Bantu. |
| 2018 | Jan. 26th | 14:15-15:45 | - | Informal HALS meeting on the future activities and plans of the research group. |
| 2017 | Nov. 24th | 14:15-15:45 | Sali 6 | HALS meeting (III) with presentations by Stefan Dedio (University of Zürich) and Maria Morozova (Saint Petersburg University / Russian Academy of Sciences). |
| 2017 | Nov. 10th | 14:15-15:45 | Sali 8 | HALS meeting (II) with a presentation by Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm (Stockholm University): Talking temperature with close relatives and neighbours. |
| 2017 | Oct. 27th | 14:15-15:45 | Sali 11 | HALS meeting (I) with a presentation by Ljuba Veselinova (Stockholm University): Maps and mapping in linguistic research. |
| 2016 | Dec. 19th-20th | 09:00-18:00 | - | HALS seminar (I) on the ethnology of the peoples of the Russian Federation. |
| 2016 | Jun. 20th-23rd | - | - | HALS-related event: 6th International Conference on Bantu Languages (BANTU6) |
| 2015 | Nov. 13th-14th | - | - | HALS fieldwork seminar (III) on the Balkans and beyond. |
| 2015 | Mar. 12th-13th | - | - | HALS workshop (IV) on language ecologies: the Balkans and beyond. |
| 2014 | Nov. 28th-29th | - | - | HALS fieldwork seminar (II) on crosslinguistics and linguistic crossings in Northeast Asia. |
| 2014 | May 19th | - | - | HALS workshop (III) on insular worlds: the indigenous peoples and languages of Sakhalin and Hokkaido. |
| 2013 | Nov. 18th-19th | - | - | HALS fieldwork seminar (I) on the Erzya language and culture in the field. |
| 2013 | Oct. 11th-12th | - | - | HALS workshop (II) on the domain of space in linguistic description. |
| 2013 | May 27th-29th | - | - | HALS workshop (I) on culturally grounded field linguistics. |