CURRICULUM VITAE
Personal
Name: Merlijn Arthur De Smit
E-mail: merlijn.desmit@finska.su.se
Date of birth: 25.09.1977
Place of birth: Veendam, The Netherlands
Nationality: Dutch
Education
1995: Gymnasium at Ubbo Emmius Lyceum, Stadskanaal
Department of Finno-Ugric languages and cultures. Subject: Finno-Ugric linguistics..
Grade: Cum Laude
Master's thesis: Saamen kielen astevaihtelun alkuperä ja kehitys (Origin and development of grade alternation in Saami) (104 p.)
Studies abroad:
1997-1998: Exchange student (Erasmus) at the University of Turku, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Finnish and General Linguistics.
1999-2000: Exchange student (CIMO) at the University of Turku, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Finnish and General Linguistics.
Work experience
1.12.1998-14.4.1999: Traineeship at the University of Groningen, Faculty of arts, at the
research project The older Germanic loanwords in Finnic. Task: checking of etymological material and feeding it into database. Supervisor: Dr. Sirkka-Liisa Hahmo.
1.9.2001-30.6.2002: Teacher of Dutch at the Ilya Chavchavadze State University of Language and Culture, Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia.
9.9.2002- 31.5.2003: Teacher of Dutch at the University of Turku, Language Centre.
1.9.2003- : Ph.D. student at Stockholm university, Faculty of Humanities, Institute of Finnish.
Languages
Native : Dutch, Lower Saxon (Groningen dialect)
Fluent: Finnish, English
Good: German
Good, but need of refreshment: Hungarian, Estonian
Passive, need of refreshment: French, Latin
Basic: Russian
Technical knowledge: Mordvin (Erzä and Moksha), Saami
Under construction: Swedish
Publications:
1999: (Review) Ago Künnap: Breakthrough in present-day Uralistics. Linguistica Uralica p. 134-140.
2001: Saamen klusiilien astevaihtelun iästä - Sulkala, H., Nissilä, L. (toim.): XXVII Kielitieteen Päivät Oulussa 19.-20.5.2000. Acta Universitatis Ouluensis B Humaniora 41. Oulu p. 265-271.
2002: (with Petri Kallio) Missä ovat Richerit? Kanava 9.
2003: (Review) Angela Marcantonio: The Uralic Language Family. Facts, myths and statistics. Linguistica Uralica p. 57-67.
Forthcoming: Negation in Old Finnish legal texts.
On-line: Uralists against history? 2001. (www.geocities.com/isolintu/Uralists_Against_History.htm)