Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München
@finnougristiklmu.bsky.social
Institute of Finno-Ugric/Uralic Studies at LMU Munich (https://www.finnougristik.uni-muenchen.de/). We post updates on our activities, news in the field of Uralic studies, and interesting facts about Uralic languages and cultures.
Vom 24.–27. November hält Tünde Blomqvist (Universität Uppsala) vier Vorträge zu aktuellen Themen der Hungarologie. Der Besuch der Vorträge ist im Rahmen der Lehrveranstaltung „Aktuelle Probleme der Hungarologie“ anrechenbar: www.finnougristik.uni-muenchen.de/studium_lehr...
November 21, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Vom 24.–27. November hält Tünde Blomqvist (Universität Uppsala) vier Vorträge zu aktuellen Themen der Hungarologie. Der Besuch der Vorträge ist im Rahmen der Lehrveranstaltung „Aktuelle Probleme der Hungarologie“ anrechenbar: www.finnougristik.uni-muenchen.de/studium_lehr...
On Monday, 17 November, at 14:15–15:45 CET, Sofya Ganieva (University of Zurich) will give a talk on Planning passive sentences in a passivizing language based on her eye-tracking experiments with Northern Khanty speakers. The Zoom link is here: www.finnougristik.uni-muenchen.de/forschungssc...
November 15, 2025 at 10:14 AM
On Monday, 17 November, at 14:15–15:45 CET, Sofya Ganieva (University of Zurich) will give a talk on Planning passive sentences in a passivizing language based on her eye-tracking experiments with Northern Khanty speakers. The Zoom link is here: www.finnougristik.uni-muenchen.de/forschungssc...
On Monday, 3 November, Daria Zhornik (LMU) will give a talk summarizing the results of her doctoral dissertation. The title of the talk is "Discourse organisation in Northern Mansi: new findings". 14:15–15:45 CET, A 016 in the main building:
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October 31, 2025 at 9:55 AM
On Monday, 3 November, Daria Zhornik (LMU) will give a talk summarizing the results of her doctoral dissertation. The title of the talk is "Discourse organisation in Northern Mansi: new findings". 14:15–15:45 CET, A 016 in the main building:
www.finnougristik.uni-muenchen.de/forschungssc...
www.finnougristik.uni-muenchen.de/forschungssc...
Herzhaft-süßes must leib, eine malerische Moorlandschaft oder die minimalistische Musik Arvo Pärts – das und vieles mehr möchten die ExkursionsteilnehmerInnen im Rahmen ihrer Abschlusspräsentation mit Interessierten teilen. 31.10.2025, 14.00, Veranstaltungsraum Philologicum.
October 27, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Herzhaft-süßes must leib, eine malerische Moorlandschaft oder die minimalistische Musik Arvo Pärts – das und vieles mehr möchten die ExkursionsteilnehmerInnen im Rahmen ihrer Abschlusspräsentation mit Interessierten teilen. 31.10.2025, 14.00, Veranstaltungsraum Philologicum.
Vom 20. bis 23. Oktober wird Erika Erlinghagen (Universität Wien) bei uns vier Vorträge zu aktuellen Themen der Hungarologie halten: www.finnougristik.uni-muenchen.de/studium_lehr...
October 17, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Vom 20. bis 23. Oktober wird Erika Erlinghagen (Universität Wien) bei uns vier Vorträge zu aktuellen Themen der Hungarologie halten: www.finnougristik.uni-muenchen.de/studium_lehr...
We are starting the winter semester with memories of Estonian summer. On 13 October, 14:15–15:45 CEST, Tiia Palosaar will report on the excursion to Estonia, and Ksenia Shagal will present her pet project on the linguistic landscape of Narva-Jõesuu www.finnougristik.uni-muenchen.de/forschungssc...
October 10, 2025 at 12:06 PM
We are starting the winter semester with memories of Estonian summer. On 13 October, 14:15–15:45 CEST, Tiia Palosaar will report on the excursion to Estonia, and Ksenia Shagal will present her pet project on the linguistic landscape of Narva-Jõesuu www.finnougristik.uni-muenchen.de/forschungssc...
The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2025 is awarded to the Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai, “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art.” www.nobelprize.org/prizes/liter...
October 9, 2025 at 11:44 AM
The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2025 is awarded to the Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai, “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art.” www.nobelprize.org/prizes/liter...
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!
September 25, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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!
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!
September 19, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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!
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!
September 16, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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!
(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!
September 11, 2025 at 11:44 AM
(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!
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!
August 22, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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!
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).
August 21, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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).
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!
July 23, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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!
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...
July 3, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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...
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...
June 27, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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...
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.
June 24, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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.
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.
June 12, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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.
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...
June 10, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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...
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!
May 8, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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!
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!
May 5, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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!
In the summer semester, we offer a new course on Saami languages in time and space. The registration for LMU students is already open in LSF: www.finnougristik.uni-muenchen.de/aktuelles/na...
April 1, 2025 at 1:14 PM
In the summer semester, we offer a new course on Saami languages in time and space. The registration for LMU students is already open in LSF: www.finnougristik.uni-muenchen.de/aktuelles/na...
Our doctoral researcher Daria Zhornik giving a talk on Northern Mansi revitalization efforts at the International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (ling.lll.hawaii.edu/sites/icldc/)
March 20, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Our doctoral researcher Daria Zhornik giving a talk on Northern Mansi revitalization efforts at the International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (ling.lll.hawaii.edu/sites/icldc/)
Last week, our dearest Hungarian lecturer Mária Kelemen received the Bálint Csűry Award from the Hungarian Linguistic Society for all the great work she has been doing. Our warmest congratulations!
March 12, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Last week, our dearest Hungarian lecturer Mária Kelemen received the Bálint Csűry Award from the Hungarian Linguistic Society for all the great work she has been doing. Our warmest congratulations!