I am a doctoral student at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and research assistant in the project LIDIVOKA at Universität Wien.
In my dissertation I explore how language contact can influence systems of negative indefinite pronouns and adverbs, focussing on the languages of the Russian Volga-Kama-Area. I have previously worked on a number of topics in Meadow Mari, including Null Subjects, Negative Concord, and Information Structure. Furthermore, I have worked on Null Subjects in Livonian, and the morphophonology of the Estonian short illative or additive. |
Proud father of twins born in 2020.
I myself was born in Vienna to Austrian-Finnish and Finnish parents. I pronounce my name with Austrian German [jɔˈhanɛs ˈhɪɐvɔnɛn] or Finnish phonetics [ˈjohanːes ˈhirvonen]. I only insist on the initial stress on my last name in any case.
Some of my sample-based music can be found on Soundcloud.