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Tiina Onikki-Rantajääskö is a Professor of Finnish Language at the University of Helsinki's Department of Finnish, Finno-Ugrian and Scandinavian Studies, affiliated with the Faculty of Arts. She holds a Docent title and serves as a Supervisor for the Doctoral Programme in Language Studies. Her research focuses on cognitive linguistics, terminology semantics, and grammaticalization processes in Finnish, with significant contributions to Easy Language (selkokieli) research and the Helsinki Term Bank (HTB) initiative.
Education: PhD in Finnish Language Studies from the University of Helsinki (2001), focusing on locatives of state in Finnish. Academic qualifications include extensive postdoctoral research and leadership roles in national research projects.
Research Interests:
- Cognitive approaches to Finnish case systems
- Terminology management and open science practices
- Sociolinguistic aspects of Finnish language vitality
- Language accessibility through Easy Language (selkokieli)
- Lexicographical innovations in digital term banks
Awards: Recognized with the University of Helsinki Open Science Award (2022), Finnish Open Educational Practice Award (2022), and the prestigious Vuoden kieliteko 2024 for linguistic contributions. Her work emphasizes collaborative terminology projects and public engagement.
Grants & Projects: Principal Investigator for the Helsinki Term Bank (HTB) and RETOSTRA project on digital discourse analysis. Active in 16 research projects since 2001, including long-term collaborations on evidentiality and epistemic modality.
Labs/Teams: Manages the Helsinki Term Bank, a national infrastructure for academic terminology, and contributes to the Language and Thinking in Design research group. Leads training initiatives in selkokieli pedagogy at the university level.
