Education
After studying linguistics (including German language and Dutch studies) in Münster, Amsterdam, and Helsinki, she received her Doctor of Philosophy in 1970 at the University of Münster.
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Elisabeth Piirainen
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Afterwards she worked as an editor for German Language at the University of Jyväskylä located in central Finland. Since 1975, she has been in charge of various projects related to Low German philology. She has been an active scholar in phraseology, with a broad European scope.
Fifty of her publications related to proverbs are listed by Wolfgang Mieder in his two-volume bibliography on paremiology and phraseoology.
Retired, she now lives in Steinfurt, Germany.
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Membership
From 2006 to 2010 she was a member of the Scientific Council of the European Society of Phraseology (Europhras).
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