Silva Nurmio received her BA and MPhil degrees from Aberystwyth University before completing her PhD at the University of Cambridge. She spent a year during her doctoral studies as a visiting researcher at Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany. Her MPhil and doctoral theses focused on Welsh (Celtic, Indo-European), with comparative work with the other Celtic languages. During her first postdoctoral position at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies she started broadening her work on grammatical number to general linguistics and typology. Her current postdoctoral project at the University of Helsinki looks at the typology of singulatives.
