Michael Rießler

Michael Rießler, also transcribed Michael Riessler, is a German and Finnish linguist. In August 2020, Rießler was appointed professor at the University of Eastern Finland.

Biography

Rießler was born in Bad Belzig. He grew up in the village of Borne, today a district of Bad Belzig, in the former East Germany, where his parents worked at a collective farm. He went to school in Belzig, studied agriculture and in 1990 completed his high school education with passing the Abitur at the Betriebsberufsschule des Volkseigenes Gutes Kaltenhausen in Jüterbog. From 1990 to 1991 he did his civil service service in Potsdam and then studied Nordic languages, European ethnology and Bulgarian at the Humboldt University of Berlin. In 2002 he completed a Master of Philosophy with a thesis on the influence of Sámi languages on Norwegian and Swedish dialects. His thesis, entitled Sprachwechsel und Sprachwandel in Nordskandinavien, was supervised by German scholar. Rießler and Kusmenko had already published a joint paper on Southern Sámi in 2000. In 2011 Rießler defended his doctoral thesis in linguistics at the University of Leipzig under the supervision of language typologist Balthasar Bickel.

Rießler has published scientific articles on North Germanic and Sámi languages and Komi, among other things in the fields of language typology, sociolinguistics, language documentation and language technology. Rießler's research interests also include Sámi literature. From 2008 to 2014 he was editor of the book series Kleine saamische Schriften. Since 2014 he publishes the journal Samica.
After graduation, Rießler worked at several universities, including in Germany, Norway and Finland, and conducted extensive field research, especially on the Kola Peninsula and in other areas of northwest Russia. He has also worked for the.
2014 and 2017–2018 Rießler had Fellowships at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies. In autumn 2016 he was visiting professor at the École Normale Supérieure For three semesters between 2017 and 2019 he was a representative of the Chair of General Linguistics at Bielefeld University. In 2015 he was appointed as Privatdozent at the University of Helsinki and in 2018 at the University of Turku. In August 2020 Rießler was appointed Professor of general linguistics at the University of Eastern Finland.

2020 "Partial fusion in long-term bilingualism: The case of vernacular Kildin Saami, in: International Journal of Bilingualism
2017 "", in: Oral History meets Linguistics. Fürstenberg: Kulturstiftung Sibirien, p. 31–64
2016 "Utilizing language technology in the documentation of endangered Uralic languages", in: Northern European Journal of Language Technology 4, p. 29–47
2011 ', in: Language contact in times of globalization. Amsterdam: Rodopi, p. 5–26
2004 On the origin of preaspiration in North Germanic, in: Journal of Indo-European Monograph Series 49, p. 168–185
2002 ', in: TijdSchrift voor Skandinavistiek 23:1, p. 43–62
2000 , in: Languages in Contact. Amsterdam: Rodopi, p. 209–224

2019 Worte verschwinden fliegen zum blauen Licht : Samische Lyrik von Joik bis Rap. Freiburg: Skandinavisches Seminar der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität.
2015 Cultural and linguistic minorities in the Russian Federation and the European Union : Comparative studies on equality and diversity. Cham: Springer.
2015 New trends in Nordic and General Linguistics. Berlin: De Gruyter.