Virve-Anneli Vihman
Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
University of Edinburgh
Adam Ferguson Building
40 George Square
Edinburgh EH8 9LL
Scotland, UK
Office: Adam Ferguson Building, rm. 322
Tel: (+44 131) 650 3960
Fax: (+44 131) 650 3962
email: virve@ling.ed.ac.uk

 © R. Clark 2003

I am currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow funded by the ESRC, in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, which is in the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences at the University of Edinburgh.

Research

My Ph.D. dissertation, supervised by Ronnie Cann and Jim Miller, was on valency reduction in Estonian. I examined syntactic and semantic aspects of valency-reducing (argument-demoting) operations such as impersonalisation, passivisation, and anticausativisation. The thesis is implemented in a Role and Reference Grammar framework. It was examined by Jim Blevins (Cambridge) and Caroline Heycock (Edinburgh), and will eventually be available here for downloading.

I participated in a British-Academy funded Research Network on the Syntax and Semantics of Finnic passives (Jan. 02- Jan. 04), with Diane Nelson, Satu Manninen, Katrin Hiietam, and Elsi Kaiser. I am also convener of the Syntax-Semantics Research Group in Edinburgh, and a member of the Philological Society of Great Britain, North-East Syntax Society, the LAGB and the LSA.

Outputs

Teaching

I have lectured in:
Second-year undergraduate Linguistics: Syntax, Semantics, Issues in Syntax and Semantics
Honours-level: Structure of a Language: Finnish

I taught English at Nõo Reaalgümnaasium from 1995-1997.

Education

M.Sc., 1999, University of Edinburgh, Department of Linguistics

B.A., 1994, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT.

Autumn 1992, semester abroad at the University of Tartu

Personal

Publishing

August 1999 & 2000, I edited ThreeWeeks, the independent newspaper about Edinburgh's Festivals  (the Fringe, International Festival, Book Festival, Film Festival, and the Tattoo).

1997-98, I helped start up and co-edited Tallinn in Your Pocket with Tricia Cornell.

Other stuff

Scottish hills, weather, ceramics by Tõnis Kriisa, the Guardian, Eesti Ekspress, Postimees, Transitions Online, Ethnologue.
More to come.



Last updated: Feb. 13, 2004
Image of me on the Mull of Kintyre, courtesy of Rob Clark