Folklore 64 · David Bimler holds a BSc in physics and a Ph.D. in mathematical psychology. He is a...
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Folklore 64 213 OUR AUTHORS Renate Pajusalu is Professor of General Linguistics at the Institute of Estonian and General Linguistics, University of Tartu, Estonia. Her research interests include seman- tics and pragmatics of Estonian and related languages from cognitive and interactional perspective, and first and second language acquisition. [email protected] Anni Jürine is specialist-assistent at the Centre for Academic Writing and Commu- nication, University of Tartu, Estonia. Her main fields of research include language change, especially grammaticalization and lexicalization, as well as academic writing. [email protected] Karl Pajusalu is Professor of History and Dialects of the Estonian Language at the Institute of Estonian and General Linguistics, University of Tartu, Estonia. His main areas of research are phonological and grammatical variation of Estonian and related languages, and historical formation of the Estonian language area. [email protected] Ilona Tragel is a linguist. She is an associate professor of general linguistics at the Uni- versity of Tartu, Estonia, and a lecturer of Estonian language and culture at the Beijing Foreign Studies University in Beijing, China. Her main fields of research are semantics and grammaticalisation of frequent verbs in the framework of cognitive linguistics. [email protected] Ann Veismann is Research Fellow in general linguistics at the University of Tartu, Estonia. Her research relates to cognitive linguistics, and her main research interests are semantics of adpositions and adverbs, space and time expressions in Estonian, and empirical methods in semantics. [email protected] Yuri Berezkin is Head of the American Department of the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), Russian Academy of Sciences, and Professor at the Department of Anthropology, the European University at Saint Petersburg. [email protected] Evgeny Duvakin is an independent researcher and a participant in the “Stories Retold over Millennia: Reconstruction of the Dynamics of the Global Distribution of Replicated Elements of Oral Narratives” research project of the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), Russian Academy of Sciences. [email protected]
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OUR AUTHORS
Renate Pajusalu is Professor of General Linguistics at the Institute of Estonian and General Linguistics, University of Tartu, Estonia. Her research interests include seman-tics and pragmatics of Estonian and related languages from cognitive and interactional perspective, and first and second language acquisition.
Anni Jürine is specialist-assistent at the Centre for Academic Writing and Commu-nication, University of Tartu, Estonia. Her main fields of research include language change, especially grammaticalization and lexicalization, as well as academic writing. [email protected]
Karl Pajusalu is Professor of History and Dialects of the Estonian Language at the Institute of Estonian and General Linguistics, University of Tartu, Estonia. His main areas of research are phonological and grammatical variation of Estonian and related languages, and historical formation of the Estonian language area.
Ilona Tragel is a linguist. She is an associate professor of general linguistics at the Uni-versity of Tartu, Estonia, and a lecturer of Estonian language and culture at the Beijing Foreign Studies University in Beijing, China. Her main fields of research are semantics and grammaticalisation of frequent verbs in the framework of cognitive linguistics.
Ann Veismann is Research Fellow in general linguistics at the University of Tartu, Estonia. Her research relates to cognitive linguistics, and her main research interests are semantics of adpositions and adverbs, space and time expressions in Estonian, and empirical methods in semantics.
Yuri Berezkin is Head of the American Department of the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), Russian Academy of Sciences, and Professor at the Department of Anthropology, the European University at Saint Petersburg.
Evgeny Duvakin is an independent researcher and a participant in the “Stories Retold over Millennia: Reconstruction of the Dynamics of the Global Distribution of Replicated Elements of Oral Narratives” research project of the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), Russian Academy of Sciences.
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Mari Uusküla holds a Ph.D. in linguistics and is an Associate Professor of Translation Studies at Tallinn University. Her research interests include linguistics, lexical seman-tics, semantic typology, color naming, categorization and perception, field linguistics, and psycholinguistics.
David Bimler holds a BSc in physics and a Ph.D. in mathematical psychology. He is a Research Associate with Massey University in New Zealand. His research focuses on vision, considering such topics as the perception of color and facial expressions of emotion.
Jodi Louise Sandford is a researcher and adjunct professor in English language and linguistics at the University of Perugia, Italy. Her research in cognitive semantics has concentrated on seeing or color words, categorization, and conceptualization.
Natalia Glukhova Chair of Finno-Ugric and Comparative Philology, Institute of National Culture and Intercultural Communication, Mari State University.
Hille Pajupuu, researcher at the Institute of the Estonian Language, Tallinn, Estonia. Fields: speech perception and speech acoustics.
Rene Altrov, researcher at the Institute of the Estonian Language, Tallinn, Estonia. Fields: linguistic corpora, intercultural communication.
Jaan Pajupuu, software developer.
Liisi Piits is researcher at the Institute of the Estonian Language. Her main fields of research include collocational behaviour of nouns and phonological variation of Estonian pronunciation.
Piret Voolaid is senior researcher at the Department of Folkloristics, Estonian Literary Museum. Her current interests include subgenres of Estonian riddles, proverbs in their various contemporary contexts, proverbs, children’s and youth, Internet, and sports lore.
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Ekaterina Velmezova is linguist, Slavist, full professor of Slavistics and of history and epistemology of language sciences in Eastern Europe at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Her main fields of research include history and epistemology of language sciences, and Slavic ethnolinguistics.
Mare Kõiva is folklorist and leading researcher at the Department of Folkloristics, Estonian Literary Museum, Tartu, Estonia. Her main fields of research include mythology, belief narratives and incantations, religious studies and new spiritual movements, ritual year, contemporary folklore, relations between humans and animals.
Andres Kuperjanov is the folklorist and editor at the Estonian Literary Museum, Tartu, Estonia. His main fields of research include archeoastronomy and ethnoastronomy, popular calendar, ritual practices, belief narratives, new religious movements, digitalhumanities.
