Mari Uusküla
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Mari Uusküla | |
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 Mari Uusküla at the presentation of Vadja keele sõnaraamatut (Votic Dictionary) at St. Catherine's Monastery, 2014 | |
| Born | January 23, 1980 Tallinn, Estonia |
| Occupation | Linguist |
Mari Uusküla (until July 1, 2005 Mari Bogatkin;[1] born January 23, 1980)[2] is an Estonian linguist.[3]
Uusküla is the daughter of the ceramist Georg Bogatkin and the paternal granddaughter of the artists Vladimir Bogatkin and Valli Lember-Bogatkina.[4][5][6] She is the maternal granddaughter of the sculptor Endel Taniloo.[7][8]
Uusküla graduated from Tallinn Õismäe Humanities High School in 1998 and from the University of Tartu's Faculty of Arts and Humanities in 2003, majoring in Hungarian. Both her master's thesis and doctoral dissertation were supervised by Urmas Sutrop at the University of Tartu. She defended her dissertation, Basic Colour Terms in Finno-Ugric and Slavonic Languages: Myths and Facts, in 2008 at the Department of General Linguistics.[2]
Career
Uusküla teaches psycholinguistics, anthropological linguistics, semantics, and pragmatics at Tallinn University. She has taught at several other European universities, in Roskilde, Verona, Milan, and Budapest.[2][3] She is the head of the Western European Studies program at Tallinn University's Institute of Humanities, where she is an associate professor of linguistics and translation studies.[1][2][9][10] She is the head of the Department of Language History, Dialects, and Finno-Ugric Languages at the Institute of the Estonian Language.[11][12] Much of her research has focused on linguistic aspects of colors.[13]
