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)

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