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About Alho Alhoniemi
- Alho Alhoniemi (born 1933 in Suomussalmi) is a Finnish linguist specializing in the Finno-Ugric languages.Alhoniemi graduated from high school in 1952 in Kannus.
- He obtained his PhD in 1967 with a thesis about the lative case in Mari and served as professor of Finno-Ugric linguistics at the University of Turku from 1971 to 1996.
- He was appointed member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters in 1981 and received an honorary doctorate from Uppsala University in 1994.
- He served as chairman of the Society for the Finnish Language (Suomen Kielen Seura) from 1971 to 1979.His research interests include the syntax of the Mari and Mordvinic languages.
- In 1985, he published an extensive grammar of Mari in Finnish, which was translated into German in 1993.
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