Scientific Career
Halla-aho is a Ph.D., having written his dissertation about historical nominal morphology of Old Church Slavonic. Halla-aho studied at the University of Helsinki from 1995 to 2000. During his post-graduate period (2000–2006) he worked at the Department of Slavonic and Baltic Studies as a researcher and teacher of Old Church Slavic. Halla-aho has published two articles in scientific journals, has been one of the editors selection of papers by linguistics from several countries and written Old Church Slavic Manual, which is used at the University of Helsinki.
Halla-aho's scientific interests include comparative Indo-European linguistics, especially nominal morphology and theoretical questions related to the principles of reconstruction, Old Church Slavic, historical morphology of Slavic languages, Gothic and Phrygian languages.
Since April 2007 Halla-aho has been working on, together with translator Juri Zub, a Ukrainian-Finnish dictionary, funded by the Finnish Cultural Fund.
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