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Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · 13d

The time before the beginning of the semester is perfect for all kinds of academic exchange, both for our students and for our teachers. Greetings from ELTE Budapest where Ksenia Shagal is giving several lectures on linguistic typology and Finnish pragmatics this week!

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Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · 19d

In August, a group of our students learning Estonian went on a week-long excursion to Estonia. In the winter semester, we will have two presentations related to the trip, one on 13 October in the colloquium and another one on 31 October. Stayed tuned!

A group of students and a lecturer in front of the fountain on the Town Hall Square in Tartu, Estonia

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Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · 22d

Mʉβəɬi juːɣət sɐːjnə? Manər jiwət sājt? Mi van a fák mögött? Wenn Sie solche Fragen beschäftigen, Antworten erfahren Sie im kommenden Semester beim Kurs "3-in-1: Chantisch-Mansisch-Ungarisch kompakt!" von Zsófia Schön!

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Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · 27d

Für potentiell Interessierte eine einführende Podcastfolge: shows.acast.com/a-language-i...

Mari and Jeremy Bradley | A Language I Love Is...

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Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · 27d

(Wiesen)marisch an der LMU, direkt von den Leuten, die mit der Sprache arbeiten: im kommenden Semester bieten Jeremy Bradley & Johannes Hirvonen einen Sprach- und Strukturkurs zum Marischen an. Keine erforderlichen Vorkenntnisse!

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Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · 28d

Ten more days to apply for a permanent full-time position of a lecturer in Hungarian at LMU Munich! Please share or forward this to your friends who might be interested!

Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · Aug 4

The Institute of Uralic Studies at LMU Munich is seeking applications for a position of a lecturer in Hungarian. It is a full-time permanent position with a starting date in February 2026. The deadline for applications is 20 September 2025. Please spread the word! job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/a...

Lecturer in Hungarian (m/f/x)

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Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · Aug 22

The LMU delegation at #cifu14 was so big that we did not fit into one picture, but here are at least some of us on various occasions. Many thanks to the organizers for this wonderful congress!

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Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · Aug 21

A fantastic #cifu14 reception at the Estonian National Museum with greetings and songs by representatives of many Finno-Ugric peoples!

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Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · Aug 21

Opening the symposium on Building diachronic corpora for minority languages at Congressus XIV Internationalis Fenno-Ugristarum. The symposium is organized by Jeremy Bradley, Daria Zhornik, Ksenia Shagal (Munich), Timofey Arkhangelskiy, Alexandre Arkhipov (Hamburg), and Trond Trosterud (Tromsø).

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Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · Aug 4

The Institute of Uralic Studies at LMU Munich is seeking applications for a position of a lecturer in Hungarian. It is a full-time permanent position with a starting date in February 2026. The deadline for applications is 20 September 2025. Please spread the word! job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/a...

Lecturer in Hungarian (m/f/x)

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Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · Jul 23

The third bilingual Hungarian–German volume of Dezső Kosztolányi's works translated by our students and our wonderful Hungarian lecturer Mária Kelemen together with a writer and translator Akos Doma was presented yesterday at the Consulate General of Hungary in Munich!

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Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · Jul 18

On Monday, 21 July, we will have two talks in the colloquium: (1) Margarita Wolf (LMU): Inchoative strategies in Northern Mansi; (2) Gwen Eva Janda (LMU): Effects of language change on Bridging Linkage. 14:15–15:45 CEST in A 014 or in Zoom: www.finnougristik.uni-muenchen.de/forschungssc...

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Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · Jul 3

On Monday, 7 July, Tobias Weber (Technical University of Liberec) will give a talk with the title "Languages are GLAM: On the role of memory institutions in philologies and humanities". 14:15–15:45 CEST, in A 014 in the main building and in Zoom: www.finnougristik.uni-muenchen.de/forschungssc...

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Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · Jun 27

On Monday, 30 June, at 14:15–15:45 CEST, Jeremy Bradley will talk about where he is, how he got there, and where he is going: "How we got here": Uralic languages of the Volga Region and Siberia since WWI – Structural change contextualized. www.finnougristik.uni-muenchen.de/forschungssc...

Kolloquium SoSe 2025 - Lehrstuhl für Finnougristik - LMU München

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Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · Jun 27

We are very happy to announce that Jeremy Bradley, previously a member of our team (2014–2018), has returned to our institute and is once again the person to contact for matters of study coordination: www.finnougristik.uni-muenchen.de/personen/wis...

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Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · Jun 24

Daria Zhornik and Lorenz Staudacher gave a talk in our colloquium yesterday about their work with Northern Mansi materials from Valery Chernetsov's archive. Several students have been processing the folklore narratives and analysing them in their course papers and BA theses.

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Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · Jun 18

On Monday, 23 June, Daria Zhornik and Lorenz Staudacher (LMU Munich), who work with Northern Mansi archival materials, will give a talk on Valery Chernetsov's archive: processing, research and future prospects. 14:15–15:45 CEST, A 014 in the main building – or contact us for a Zoom link!

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Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · Jun 12

Greetings from Riga where we are presenting our research at the conference on Areal linguistics and language contact of Uralic languages. Our institute is represented by Margarita Wolf, Johannes Hirvonen, Ksenia Shagal @ksushagal.bsky.social, Jeremy Bradley @jeremue.bsky.social, and Gwen Eva Janda.

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Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · Jun 10

On Monday, 16 June, Irina Burukina (University of Florida) will give a talk on Inflected infinitives in Mari: Clitics, subject agreement, or a secret third thing. 14:15–15:45 CEST, A 014 in the main building – or using the Zoom link available here: www.finnougristik.uni-muenchen.de/forschungssc...

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Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · May 22

Dear all, unfortunately, the talk on Monday, 26 May, has to be cancelled. Please stay tuned for further updates.

Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · May 22

On Monday, 26 May, Gwen Eva Janda (LMU Munich) will give a talk on Bridging Linkage in Ob-Ugric: state of research, research aspects and outlook. 14:15–15:45 CEST, A 014 in the main building – or contact us for a Zoom link!

Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · May 22

On Monday, 26 May, Gwen Eva Janda (LMU Munich) will give a talk on Bridging Linkage in Ob-Ugric: state of research, research aspects and outlook. 14:15–15:45 CEST, A 014 in the main building – or contact us for a Zoom link!

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Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · May 9

The 100th issue of Suomalais-Ugrilaisen Seuran Aikakauskirja is out, with several interesting papers including one by our doctoral researcher Riku Erkkilä about the international influences on the grammars produced by M. A. Castrén.

Sampsa Holopainen @sampsaholopainen.bsky.social · May 9

Suomalais-Ugrilaisen Seuran Aikakauskirjan 100. numero on ilmestynyt! journal.fi/susa

Suomalais-Ugrilaisen Seuran Aikakauskirja

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Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · May 8

On Monday, 12 May, Aigul Zakirova (University of Potsdam) will give a talk on Necessity constructions in Hill Mari: a diachronic corpus perspective. 14:15–15:45 CEST, A 014 in the main building – or contact us for a Zoom link!

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Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · May 5

This is a reminder that today Ekaterina Aplonova (CNRS‒LLACAN) will give another guest lecture on the ComPLETE database entitled "Methodological approaches to complex predicates 2: from database to corpus". 14:15–15:45 CEST in room A 014 – or contact us for a Zoom link!

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Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · Apr 25

Our research colloquium is back! The first meeting will take place on Monday, 28 April, at 14:15, in room A 014 (HG). We will have a 45-minute talk by Lorenz Staudacher on Infinitive constructions in Northern Mansi. The Zoom link is the same as before (please, send us a message to get the link).

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