Hilla Halla-aho

PhD, the Latin language
(University of Helsinki)

hilla.halla-aho at helsinki.fi

Institution:
Department of World Cultures, University of Helsinki, Finland.

Current position:
Researcher in the project Ancient Greek Written Sources, funded by the Academy of Finland.

Research interests:
* the Latin language, esp. syntax and pragmatics
* variation and change in Latin
* non-literary sources (papyri, writing tablets, inscriptions)

Publications:

1. Articles in refereed journals

Leiwo, Martti and Halla-aho, Hilla (2002): 'A marriage contract. Aspects of Latin-Greek language contact', Mnemosyne 55, 560-580.

Kruschwitz, Peter and Halla-aho, Hilla (2007): 'The Pompeian wall-inscriptions and the Latin language: A critical reappraisal', Arctos 41, 31-49.

Halla-aho, Hilla (forthcoming): 'Requesting in a letter. Context, syntax, and the choice between complements in the letters of Cicero and Pliny the Younger', Transactions of the Philological Society.

2. Monographs

Halla-aho, Hilla (2009): The non-literary Latin letters. A study of their syntax and pragmatics. Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica (Commentationes Humanarum Litterarum 124).

3. Articles in refereed volumes and proceedings

Halla-aho, Hilla (2003): 'Scribes and the letters of Claudius Terentianus', in Heikki Solin, Martti Leiwo and Hilla Halla-aho (eds.) Latin vulgaire - latin tardif VI, 245-252.

Halla-aho, Hilla (2010): 'Linguistic varieties and language level in Latin non-literary letters', in Trevor Evans and Dirk Obbink (eds.) Language of the papyri, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 171-183

Halla-aho, Hilla and Kruschwitz, Peter (2010): 'Colloquial and literary language in early Roman tragedy', in Eleanor Dickey and Anna Chahoud (eds.) Colloquial and literary Latin, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 133-159.

Halla-aho, Hilla (forthcoming): 'Epistolary Latin', in James Clackson (ed.) The Blackwell companion to the Latin language.

4. Other scholarly publications

Edited volumes:

Solin, Heikki, Leiwo, Martti and Halla-aho, Hilla (eds.) (2003) Latin vulgaire - latin tardif VI. Actes du VIe colloque international sur le latin vulgaire et tardif, Helsinki 29 août - 2 septembre 2000. Hildesheim: Olms .

Articles:

Halla-aho, Hilla (2003): 'Remarks on phraseology, spoken language and language contact in the letters of Claudius Terentianus (2nd century AD Egypt)', in Leena Pietilä-Castrén and Marjaana Vesterinen (eds.) Grapta poikila I. Papers and monographs of the Finnish Institute at Athens vol. VIII. Helsinki: Foundation of the Finnish Institute at Athens. 25-33.

A translation:

Ksenofon, Hevostaito. Tammi, 2003. [A translation into Finnish of Xenophon's Peri Hippikes and Hipparkhos]