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Marri Amon is a Lecturer in French Language and Translation Studies at the University of Tartu's Institute of Foreign Languages and Cultures (0.50 FTE since 2018). Previously held full-time Lecturer positions in Romance Philology within the Faculty of Philosophy and the Institute of Germanic, Romance, and Slavonic Languages and Literatures from 2003-2017. Earned a Doctor's Degree (2015) from the Institute of Estonian and General Linguistics focusing on Information Structuring in spoken Estonian.
- Education: BA in French Literature (Tartu University), DEA in Linguistics (Paris III), European Master in Conference Interpretation (E.S.I.T)
Research focuses on oral language analysis, Information Structuring, and Estonian-French contrastive linguistics. Key contributions include studies on interrogative clauses, evidential constructions, and cross-linguistic discourse patterns. Active in projects like 'Prosody and Information Structure of Surprise Questions' (2019-2021) and 'Morphosyntactic Structure of Estonian' (2008-2013). Over 40 publications spanning linguistics journals and conference proceedings, with recent work in Linguistics Vanguard and Interactional Linguistics.
Supervised her own doctoral research (2011-2015) under Liina Lindström and Jocelyne Fernandez-Vest. Engaged in collaborative projects on Finno-Ugric languages and European language contacts. No awards listed but extensive grant-funded research activity.
