Department of Modern Finnish and Translation

Other projects

Contrastive Linguistics and Translation Theory

Finnish for Special Purposes

Idioms and Collocations

Language Acquisition and Testing

Bilingual Lexicography

PROJECT: IDIOMS AND COLLOCATIONS

Project leader: Prof. Antero Niemikorpi

Aims of the project

To study idioms and collocations and develop models for their investigation.
To produce teaching materials especially suitable for the teaching of Finnish and Swedish idioms and collocations at university level.

Continued interaction between teaching and research is seen especially in the implementation of the following courses:

Translation Theory KIE.102
Contrastive Finnish SUO.316
Proseminar or B.A. Thesis SUO.120
Seminar SUO.309 / Translation Seminar (for Swedish-speaking students) SUO.305?306
M.A.Thesis and Thesis Seminar SUO.398
Literary Translation SUO.220

Postgraduate studies

Seminars etc.:

The annual VAKKI seminar at Vöyri in April (jointly with the other Departments of the Faculty of Humanities)
Postgraduate seminar during the academic year

Articles:

Tuuli Forsgren (1994): Kontrastivt om kollokationer. In: Sprache als lebendiger Kulturspiegel. Festskrift för Astrid Stedje. (eds Martin Todtenhaupt & Ingela Valfridsson). 6 pp.
Tuuli Forsgren (1994): Hur finner man kollokationerna? In: Erikoiskielet ja käännösteoria. VAKKI-symposium XV. Vaasa. Pp. 47-59.
Tuuli Forsgren (1995): När svensken blöder, läcker det blod ur finnen. In: Erikoiskielet ja käännösteoria. VAKKI-symposium XV. Vaasa. Pp. 47-59.
Tuuli Forsgren (1996): Kollokaatiokäsitteestä. In: Irma Sorvali (ed.) Kääntämisentutkimuksen päivät Oulussa 12.12.1995. Meddelanden från institutionen för nordiska språk vid Uleåborgs universitet. Serie B NR 20, pp. 9-16.
Axel Groundstroem (1993): Französisch, Finnisch und der abendländische Sprachenausgleich. In: La culture dans la langue (ed. Ingmar Söhrman). Ata Universitatis Umensis, Umeå Studies in the Humanities 112. 17 pp.

Britta Klockars, Rune Ingo, Birgitta Romppanen