Erkki Itkonen (English spelling)

Japanese: イトコネン（英語表記）Erkki Itkonen

1913‐1992
Finnish Finno-Ugric scholar. Born on the shores of Lake Inari in northern Finland as the son of a pastor, he became familiar with Lappian language from an early age. As he grew older, he studied at the University of Helsinki and established himself as a specialist in Lappian language, but gradually expanded his research area to cover Finno-Ugric languages in general, becoming a leading authority on the subject. In 1956 he was elected full professor at the University of Helsinki, and in 1964 he was elected a member of the Academy of Finland. His Finno-Ugric Vowel Theory (1946, 54), supported by rigorous comparative linguistic methods, is considered the most plausible hypothesis, and his Finno-Ugric Phonetic and Morphological Structure (1957) is also an important paper that is frequently referenced.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

1913‐1992
フィンランドのフィン･ウゴル語学者。フィンランド北辺のイナリ湖畔に牧師の子として生まれ，早くからラップ語に親しんだ。長じてヘルシンキ大学に学び，ラップ語の専門家としての地位を固めたが，次第にフィン･ウゴル語全般に研究領域を広げ，その指導的権威となった。1956年ヘルシンキ大学正教授，64年にフィンランド･アカデミー会員に選ばれた。厳密な比較言語学の手法に裏づけされた，彼の《フィン･ウゴル語の母音論》(1946,54)は最も有力な仮説とされているし，《フィン･ウゴル語の音声と形態の構造》(1957)も常に参照される重要論文である。

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