Rogier Philip Charles Eduard Blokland (born February 16, 1971, in

Dordrecht Dordrecht (), historically known in English as Dordt (still colloquially used in Dutch, ) or Dort, is a List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city and List of municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the Western Netherlands, lo ...

) is a Dutch

linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning), Morphology (linguistics), morphology (structure of words), phonetics (speech sounds ...

and Professor of

Finno-Ugric languages Finno-Ugric () is a traditional linguistic grouping of all languages in the Uralic language family except for the Samoyedic languages. Its once commonly accepted status as a subfamily of Uralic is based on criteria formulated in the 19th centur ...

Uppsala University Uppsala University (UU) () is a public university, public research university in Uppsala, Sweden. Founded in 1477, it is the List of universities in Sweden, oldest university in Sweden and the Nordic countries still in operation. Initially fou ...

Life and Research

Blokland studied at the

University of Groningen The University of Groningen (abbreviated as UG; , abbreviated as RUG) is a Public university#Continental Europe, public research university of more than 30,000 students in the city of Groningen (city), Groningen, Netherlands. Founded in 1614, th ...

, where he completed his master's degree in 1997, and received his Doctorate under the supervision of Cornelius Hasselblatt. After his studies, he held posts as

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, visiting docent and

research Research is creative and systematic work undertaken to increase the stock of knowledge. It involves the collection, organization, and analysis of evidence to increase understanding of a topic, characterized by a particular attentiveness to ...

and

teaching fellow A teaching fellow (sometimes referred to as a TF) is an individual at a higher education institution, including universities, whose work involves teaching and potentially pedagogic research. The work done by teaching fellows can vary significantl ...

at various universities, including the

University of Tallinn Tallinn University (TLU; , ''TLÜ'') is a public research university in Estonia. Located in the centre of Tallinn, the capital city of Estonia, Tallinn University is one of the three largest institutions of higher education in the country. Both Q ...

, the

University of Tartu The University of Tartu (UT; ; ) is a public research university located in the city of Tartu, Estonia. It is the national university of Estonia. It is also the largest and oldest university in the country.

, the

University of Greifswald The University of Greifswald (; ), formerly known as Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald, is a public research university located in Greifswald, Germany, in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Founded in 1456, it is one of th ...

and the

Humboldt University of Berlin The Humboldt University of Berlin (, abbreviated HU Berlin) is a public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin, Germany. The university was established by Frederick William III on the initiative of Wilhelm von Humbol ...

. From 2005 to 2006, Blokland worked with professor Cornelius Hasselblatt at the department of Finno-Ugric Languages and Cultures in Groningen, and from 2009 to 2010 he was acting professor of Finno-Ugric and Uralic Studies (formerly

Eugene Helimski Eugene Arnoldovich Helimski (sometimes also spelled Eugene Khelimski; ; 15 March 1950 – 25 December 2007) was a Soviet and Russian linguist (in the latter part of his life working in Germany). He was a Doctor of Philology (1988) and Professo ...

) at the

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. In 2011, he took the position of Assistant Professor at the Chair of Finno-Ugric Studies (Elena Skribnik) at

Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (simply University of Munich, LMU or LMU Munich; ) is a public university, public research university in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. Originally established as the University of Ingolstadt in 1472 by Duke ...

. In 2014, Rogier Blokland was appointed as Professor of Finno-Ugric languages at the Department of Modern Languages at Uppsala University, a position previously held by . Blokland's research focuses on the

Baltic-Finnic The Finnic or Baltic Finnic languages constitute a branch of the Uralic language family spoken around the Baltic Sea by the Baltic Finnic peoples. There are around 7 million speakers, who live mainly in Finland and Estonia. Traditionally, ...

, the

Permic The Permic or Permian languages are a branch of the Uralic language family. They are spoken in several regions to the west of the Ural Mountains within the Russian Federation. The total number of speakers is around 950,000, of which around 550,00 ...

and the

Sámi languages The Sámi languages ( ), also rendered in English language, English as Sami and Saami, are a group of Uralic languages spoken by the Indigenous Sámi peoples in Northern Europe (in parts of northern Finland, Norway, Sweden, and extreme northwest ...

, and he is particularly interested in the areas of

language documentation Language documentation (also: documentary linguistics) is a subfield of linguistics which aims to describe the grammar and use of human languages. It aims to provide a comprehensive record of the linguistic practices characteristic of a given speec ...

and

language contact Language contact occurs when speakers of two or more languages or varieties interact with and influence each other. The study of language contact is called contact linguistics. Language contact can occur at language borders, between adstratum ...

of small and highly endangered varieties.

Publications (selected)

;Monographs *2009 ''The Russian loanwords in literary Estonian.'' Wiesbaden ;Editions *2007 ''Language and Identity in the Finno-Ugric World.'' Maastricht (with Cornelius Hasselblatt) *2002 ''Finno-Ugrians and Indo-Europeans: Linguistic and Literary Contacts.'' Maastricht (with Cornelius Hasselblatt) ;Articles *2015 Negation in South Saami. ''Negation in Uralic languages,'' ed. by Matti Miestamo, Anne Tamm, Beáta Wagner-Nagy. Benjamins. 377–398. (with Nobufumi Inaba) *2012 Borrowed pronouns: evidence from Uralic. ''Finnisch-ugrische Mitteilungen'' 35: 1–35. *2011 Komi-Saami-Russian contacts on the Kola Peninsula. ''Language Contact in Times of Globalization,'' edited by Cornelius Hasselblatt, Peter Houtzagers & Remco van Pareren. Amsterdam & New York. 5–26 (with Michael Rießler) *2010 Vene mõju eesti keeles. ''Keele rajad. Pühendusteos professor Helle Metslangi 60. sünnipäevaks,'' edited by Ilona Tragel. Tartu. 35–54 (with Petar Kehayov) *2003 The endangered Uralic languages. ''Language Death and Language Maintenance. Theoretical, practical and descriptive approaches,'' edited by Mark Janse & Sijmen Tol. Amsterdam. 107–141 (with Cornelius Hasselblatt) *2002 Phonotactics and Estonian etymology. ''Finno-Ugrians and Indo-Europeans. Linguistic and Literary Contacts,'' edited by Rogier Blokland & Cornelius Hasselblatt. Maastricht. 46–50. *2000 Allative, genitive and partitive. On the dative in Old Finnish. ''Congressus Nonus Internationalis Fenno-Ugristarum'' IV. Tartu. 421–431 (with Nobufumi Inaba)

External links

Rogier Blokland on the Ludwig Maximilian University Munich website (in German)

Rogier Blokland on the Uppsala University website
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