Helsingin yliopisto - Englantilainen filologia

Eugene Holman

BA: PhilCand, Lecturer
Room: C620
Consultation hours: Wed 11-12

Telephone National (09) 191 22678
Telephone International +358 9 191 22678

E-mail: eugene.holman(at)helsinki.fi

Interests

Eugene Holman’s research topics focus on morphology, particularly with data from Finnish and its allied Baltic-Finnic languages. He has worked on word order, historical typology, morphology, and the computer modelling of morphological systems. He has auxiliary interests in the history of linguistics, specifically the Neo-grammarian period, phonetics, specifically prosody, and sociolinguistics, specifically the dynamics of multilingual situations. He has also translated numerous books and articles into English from Finnish, Swedish, German, Russian, Estonian, and French. With Artem Davidjants, formerly of Tallinn Pedagogical University, he is the co-founder of Pangloss, an Estonian company specializing in audiovisual and other educational products to faciliate the integration of the Russian-speaking population into Baltic societies.

Selected Publications

• Handbook of Finnish Verbs. (1984).
• “On the semasiologization of phonological rules: the semiotic evolution of Finnish consonant gradation” in Papers from the sixth International Conference on Historical Linguistics. (1985).
• “Finnmorf: A computerized research tool for students of Finnish morphology”. Computers and the Humanities 22,3 (1988).
• Tere, Eestimaa! Hello, Estonia! An audiovisual course in spoken Estonian, with Virgi Jalakas, Leo Villand, Artem Davidjants, and Inge Davidjants. (1993).
• “Multilingualism and National Identity in Post-Soviet Estonia”. Sociolinguistica 9. (1995).
• “Acculturation and Communicative Mobility among Former Soviet Nationalities,” with Harold Haarmann. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics 17 (1997).

“Favorite things”

Almae materes
Bronx High School of Science, Cornell University, Telluride Association, University of Helsinki

Music
G. F. Handel, J. H. Roman, C. M. Bellman, M. A. Charpentier, J. S. Bach, W. A. Mozart, F. J. Haydn, L. van Beethoven, F. Schubert, F. Mendelssohn

Food
Sushi, roast duck, spaghetti with anchovies, Thai food in general

Drink
Full-bodied red wines that have been aged in oak barrels, sake

Languages
Finnish, English, German, Japanese, Estonian, Vepsian, Russian, Latin, Swedish, Gothic

Writings
Marcus Terrentius Varro, Lucretius, Thomas Hobbes, Georg Hegel, Wilhelm von Humboldt, August Schleicher, Ferdinand de Saussure, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Franz Kafka, Benjamin Whorf, H. L. Mencken, Eugene Ionescu, Veijo Meri