Seppo Kittilä
University of Helsinki
I am a University Lecturer University Lecturer at the Department of Languages (subject General Linguistics), University of Helsinki, Finland. I have worked extensively on evidentiality, argument marking and grammatical voice and I have published extensively on these topics in (selective) journals (e.g., Linguistic typology, Linguistics and Studies in Language) and edited volumes (for Benjamins and Language Science Press). My dissertation dealt with transitivity from a broad cross-linguistic perspective, after which I studied ditransitives (including causatives) for many years. My recent textbook Grammatical Voice (co-authored with Fernando Zúñiga) was awarded André Martinet award (by the Societas Linguistica Europaea) in 2022. I have also been the PI of two previous projects funded by the Academy of Finland, and I was a member on the panel for linguistics for the Swedish Research council (Vetenskapsrådet) in 2019-2022. I have taught about 110 courses on different topics (e.g., semantics, pragmatics, syntax, causatives, voice, evidentiality, typology) at the University of Helsinki, and I have also been teaching a summer/winter schools in Tartu (Estonia), Salos (Lithuania) and LOT winter school (Netherlands).