Eeva Sippola

Eeva Maija Sippola (born 1978) is a Finnish linguist. Her main areas include language contact, postcolonial sociolinguistics and typology, especially pidgins and creoles. Since 1 January 2023 she has been working at the University of Helsinki as a professor of Ibero-American Languages and Cultures.

Sippola advocates for the establishment of Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics as an autonomous research field.

Selected works Eeva Sippola: Una gramática descriptiva del chabacano de Ternate (doctoral thesis). University of Helsinki, 2011. http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-10-7327-4 Peter Bakker, Finn Borchsenius, Carsten Levisen and Eeva Sippola (eds.): Creole Studies: Phylogenetic Approaches. John Benjamins, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1075/z.211 Carsten Levisen, Eeva Sippola, Britta Schneider: Language Ideologies in Music. Amsterdam: J. Benjamins, Special Issue of Language & Communication, 2017.