Key research areas

• Finnish as a foreign language in German speaking countries
  • History of German grammars and textbooks for Finnish as a foreign language
  • Academic Finnish
• German-Finnish translation history
  • German translations of the Finnish national epic Kalevala
    • metrical translation
    • retranslation hypothesis
  • Finnish translations of German children's literature in the 19. century
    • retranslations and „translation archaeology“
    • translations in the process of establishing the literary Finnish 
• Contrastive linguistics German-Finnish
  • Case alternation
  • Nullsubject – Nullperson – Nulltopic
• (Learner’s) lexicography