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Elisabeth Piirainen

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Gender Female
Death7 years ago
Born Hanover
Germany
Official site elisabeth-piirainen.de
BooksWidespread Idioms in Europe and Beyond: Toward a Lexicon of Common Figurative Units
Lexicon of Common Figurative Units: Widespread Idioms in Europe and Beyond. Volume II
On symbols Cognitive and cultural aspects of figurative Language
«Bis Dat, Qui Cito Dat»: «Gegengabe» in Paremiology, Folklore, Language, and Literature - Honoring Wolfgang Mieder on His Seventieth Birthday
Date of birth January 1,1943
Date of died December 29,2017
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Elisabeth Piirainen Life story


Elisabeth Piirainen, was a German linguist and philologist. After studying linguistics in Münster, Amsterdam, and Helsinki, she received her PhD in 1970 at the University of Münster. Afterwards she worked as an editor for German Language at the University of Jyväskylä located in central Finland.

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