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Dan Karvonen

Daniel Karvonen

612-626-1651
German, Scan & Dutch 154 Folwell Hall

Department Affiliations


Specialties

  • Phonology
  • Finnish language
  • Morphology
  • Finno-Ugric languages
  • General Linguistics

Educational Background

  • Ph.D.: Linguistics, University of California, Santa Cruz, California, 2005.
  • M.A.: Linguistics, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, 1995.
  • B.A.: Russian and Finnish, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1989.

Publications

  • Explaining Nonfinality: Evidence from Finnish: Karvonen, Daniel, Cascadilla Proceedings Project, Proceedings of the 26th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, 306-314, 2008. Link
  • Opacity in Icelandic: A Sympathy Account: Karvonen, Daniel, Adam Sherman [Ussishkin], GLSA, Proceedings of NELS 28, 1998.
  • Sympathy, Opacity, and U-Umlaut in Icelandic: Karvonen, Daniel, Adam Sherman [Ussishkin], Phonology at Santa Cruz [PASC], 5 37-48, 1997.
  • Vaikeita sijamuotoja suomen kielen ajanilmauksissa: Karvonen, Daniel, Virittäjä, 98:3 453-457, 1994.

Awards

  • Norwegian Marshall Fund Award, January 2009 - May 2009
  • Students' Choice Award, CLA Student Board, University of Minnesota, 2005
  • Undergraduate Steering Committee Award for Outstanding Teaching; Department of German, Scandinavian and Dutch; University of Minnesota, 2005
  • Outstanding Service Award, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota, 2004
  • Fulbright Scholar Award, University of Helsinki, Finland, 1999 - 2000
  • Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1999

Courses Taught

  • Fin 1001/4001 - Beginning Finnish I
  • Fin 1002/4002 - Beginning Finnish II
  • Fin 1003/4003 - Intermediate Finnish I
  • Fin 1004/4004 - Intermediate Finnish II
  • Fin 3011 - Advanced Finnish I
  • Fin 3012 - Advanced Finnish II
  • Ling 5302 - Phonology I
  • Ling 5303 - Phonology II
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