Mariann Proos
Hi! I am Mariann Proos, Research Fellow in Semantics at the University of Tartu. I am interested in how language works, how it's connected to our minds and our surroundings. I work in semantics focussing on polysemy and meaning variation across languages. I have experience with both experimental and corpus-based methods of language research and I strongly believe in methodological pluralism.
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Presentations
2014 April. ECLA annual conference, Tartu. Presentation “Sense categories and image schemas - about perceiving the polysemy of nägema”.
2015 March. ECLA annual conference, Tallinn. Presentation „The sense network of ‘nägema’ with the help of image schemas”.
2016 October. Perception Metaphor Workshop, Nijmegen. Poster presentation “Can a blackboard see? - The polysemy of the Estonian perception verb “to see”.
2016 November. The day of the changing language, Tartu. Presentation “The Estonian perception verb ‘nägema’ in periphrastic constructions”.
2017 April. 6th International Conference of the Scandinavian Association for Language and Cognition (SALC6), Lund. “What makes a meaning? The case of the Estonian perception verb nägema ‘see’”. (Chosen as the best PhD student presentation).
2017 July. ICLC 14 (14th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference), Tartu. Ilona Tragel, Jane Klavan, & Mariann Proos, presentation “Circular thinking and zig-zag living: Estonian verbs in a free form drawing task”.
2019 April. 7th International Conference of the Scandinavian Association for Language and Cognition (SALC7), Aarhus. Oral presentation “Putting knowledge to the test: a conceptual feature rating task with tundma ‘to feel’ in Estonian”.
2019 August. ICLC 15(15th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference), Nishinomiya (Japan). Oral presentation “Letting meaning surface: a corpus-based study of Estonian perception verbs”.
2022 August. 8th International Conference of the Scandinavian Association for Language and Cognition (SALC8), Turku. Oral presentation “Vague quantifiers in Estonian: evidence from a picture choice task”.
Invited talks
2018 January. Grammar & Cognition Colloquium series, Nijmegen. Invited talk “Seeing pain and feeling history – the what and how of Estonian perception verbs”.
2022 April. EKM training program for Estonian as a foreign languages teachers, training day “Going into language”. Invited talk “Polysemy in language: the case of perception verbs”.
2022 May. UT Estonian and General Linguistics Institute talk series “TÜ Ling”, Tartu. Invited talk “Concreteness of Estonian words: collecting and using ratings”.
2022 June. LV Veski päev (LV Veski Day), Tartu. Invited talk “Eesti keele kogemustajuverbide tähendus ja kasutus” (“Meaning and usage of Estonian experience perception verbs”).