Unni Leino
University Lecturer, Finnish
Responsibilities
Head of specialisation in Finnish
Fields of expertise
Onomastics, Construction Grammar and cognitive linguistics in general, dialectology and linguistic variation with a computational twist, heraldry, gender
Top achievements
Erdős–Bacon 6
Main positions of trust
Member of the ITC Faculty Council
Finnish representative in NORNA-kommittén 2021–25
Finnish Cognitive Linguistics Association FiCLA, President 2016–19
Finnish state Heraldry Council, vice member 2007–13, member 2013–19
International Council of Onomastic Sciences, board member 2008–14
Heraldry Society of Finland, secretary 1998–2003
Onoma, Editor-in-Chief 2013–18, member of the Editorial Board 2009–
Research unit
Plural (Sumu: Variation and change of Finnish)
Research fields
Linguistics, Finnish, Computer Science, Heraldry, occasionally others