Peer-reviewed publications

This is largely a hand-updated mirror of my ORCID and academia.edu profiles. See also Citations of Freelance Reconstruction for my various self-published blog posts that have been cited in literature, or (general index of blog posts TBA)

2024
Uralic *tuppas — bridging Indic and Germanic. — Junttila, Santeri (ed.): E litoribus Balticis etymologiae, 61–78. (= Uralica Helsingiensia 15.)

Mordvan murteiden historiaa soinnittomien likvidoiden valossa. — Björklöf, Sofia & Jantunen, Santra & Junttila, Santeri & Kuokkala, Juha & Laitinen, Saarni & Pasanen, Annika (eds.): Itämeren kieliapajilta Volgan verkoille. Pühendusteos Riho Grünthalile 22. mail 2024, 549–563. (= Suomalais-Ugrilaisen Seuran Toimituksia __ / Festschrift Grünthal.)

2023
Sorsa ja sotka. Äännesuhteita sukelluksissa. — Holopainen, Sampsa & Kim, Jeongdo & Metsäranta, Niklas (eds.): Elämä ja etymologia. Janne Saarikiven 50-vuotisjuhlakirja, 336–364. (= Festschrift Saarikivi.)

2020
On the development of *i in Permic. — Finnisch-Ugrische Forschungen 65: 62–97.

Digital etymological dictionary of the oldest vocabulary of Finnish (with Santeri Junttila and Sampsa Holopainen). — Rasprave 46/2: 733–747.

Notes on Proto-Mansi word-final vocalism. — Holopainen, Sampsa & Kuokkala, Juha & Saarikivi, Janne & Virtanen, Susanna (eds.): Ёмас сымыӈ нэ̄кве во̄ртур э̄тпост самын патум. Scripta miscellanea in honorem Ulla-Maija Forsberg, 247–261. (= Suomalais-Ugrilaisen Seuran Toimituksia ___ / Festschrift Forsberg.)

2019
Seistä. — Junttila, Santeri & Kuokkala, Juha (eds.): Petri Kallio Rocks. Liber semisaecularis 7.2.2019, 153–160. (= Festschrift Kallio.)

2018
Itämerensuomen pitkien vokaalien alkuperä. Master's thesis: University of Helsinki.

Conference presentations & other talks

2025
• "Kantasuomen *c karjalassa ja suomessa". — LI Kielitieteen päivät, 2025-05-14, Helsinki.

2024
• "Towards Reconstruction of Highland East Cushitic". — 2nd Meeting on Cushitic Languages and Linguistics, 2024-12-06, Naples / online.
• "The Great Saami Vowel Shift in an Areal Uralic Perspective". — 6th Saami Linguistics Symposium, 2024-11-07, Helsinki.

2023
• "Proto-Uralic derivational morphology and the problem of affix homonymy" (with Sampsa Holopainen, Juha Kuokkala & Niklas Metsäranta). — Affixes Conference, 2023-08-17, Turku.
• "Uralilaisten kielten äännehistorian tutkimuksen tilanne". — Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, 2023-05-19, Helsinki.
Originally planned for video release on the Finno-Ugrian Society's YouTube channel but unfortunately not recorded due to human error. My slides for this are hence poorly annotated for readers, available on request though.

2022
• "The Sources of Proto-Samoyedic *ə". — Workshop of Samoyedic Languages and Cultures, 2022-09-08, Hamburg.
• "A Proto-Uralic causative derivation pattern redefended". — Congressus XIII Internationalis Fenno-Ugristarum, 2022-08-23, Vienna.
• "New lines of evidence on the secondariness of Finnic *ii, *uu". — HELSLANG Summer Conference, 2022-05-24, Helsinki.
• "Mind the Directionality. IE → Finnic → IE loanwords". — Hansakansan kanssa, 2022-05-18, Greifswald.

2019
• "Around the root of the family tree: Interpreting lexical divergence". — Contacts and Dispersal in the Uralic area, 2019-08-27, Seili.
• "Digital etymological dictionary of the oldest vocabulary of Finnish" (with Santeri Junttila & Sampsa Holopainen) — E-dictionaries and E-lexicography, 2019-05-11, Zagreb.

2018
• "Liivin kielen äännehistoriallisia arkaismeja". — XLV Kielitieteen päivät, 2018-05-08, Helsinki.
• "An Etymological Database of Proto-Samoyedic". — 7th International Conference on Samoyedic Studies, 2018-10-26, Tartu.

2017
• "The Proto-Uralic vocalism revisited". — 20th Conference of the Finno-Ugric Studies Association of Canada, 2017-05-28, Toronto.
• "The State of the Finno-Permic Lexicon". — Contextualizing historical lexicology, 2017-05-15, Helsinki.

2016
• "Lexical loss as a shared linguistic innovation". — FIN-CLARIN seminar on Fenno-Ugric Computational Linguistics, 2016-09-23, Helsinki.
• "Rinnakkaislainautuminen äännehistoriaa vääristävänä ilmiönä". — XLIII Kielitieteen päivät, 2016-05-26, Oulu.

2015
• "Semivowel losses and assimilations, in Finnic and beyond". — XII International Congress for Finno-Ugric Studies, 2015-08-19, Oulu.

2014
• "Palatal unpacking in Finnic". — 19th Conference of the Finno-Ugric Studies Association of Canada, 2014-05-25, St. Catherines.