Awards
• 1967 Förderpreis für Westfälische Landeskunde • 2001 the John Sass Award for her Phraseologie der westmünsterländischen Mundart (2 volumes) (Phraseology of West Münsterland dialect). Recognition of her work: • Fedulenkova, Tatiana. “Notes on Elisabeth Piirainen’s Linguistic Achievements [and] Elisabeth Piirainen: List of Publications.” Modern Phraseology Issues. Ed. Tatiana Fedulenkova. Arkhangelsk: Solti, 2018. 9-13 and 186-200. == References ==
Publications
• Bessmoders Tied mundartliches Lesebuch, 1987, *Wörterbuch der westmünsterländischen Mundart. Heimatverein Vreden, 1992, • Phraseologie der westmünsterländischen Mundart. Teil 1 und 2. (Lexikon der westmünsterländischen Redensarten), 2000 • Symbole in Sprache und Kultur (with Dmitrij O. Dobrovolʹskij), Bochum Brockmeyer, 1997, *Phraseologie in Raum und Zeit. Schneider-Verl. Hohengehren, 2002, • Europeanism, internationalism or something else? Proposal for a cross-linguistic and cross-cultural research project on widespread idioms in Europe and beyond. Hermes, Journal of Linguistics 35:45-75, 2005. • Figurative Language. Cross-cultural and Cross-linguistic Perspective (with Dmitrij O. Dobrovolʹskij), Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2005, • Zur Theorie der Phraseologie (with Dmitrij O. Dobrovolʹskij), Tübingen Stauffenburg-Verlag, 2009, • Endangered Metaphors (with Anna E. Idström), Amsterdam/Philadelphia, John Benjamins, 2012, • Widespread Idioms in Europe and Beyond. Toward a Lexicon of Common Figurative Units. New York: Peter Lang, 2012, Co-authored • Dobrovol’skij, Dmitrij, and Elisabeth Piirainen. “Conventional Figurative Language Theory and Idiom Motivation.” Yearbook of Phraseology 9 (2018), 5-30. == External links ==