Terttu Nevalainen
Terttu Nevalainen | |
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| Born | 31 May 1952 Vuolijoki, Finland |
| Nationality | Finnish |
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| Fields | Linguistics (historical) |
| Institutions | University of Helsinki |
Terttu Nevalainen (born 31 May 1952, Vuolijoki) is a Finnish linguist and the current Chair of English Philology at the University of Helsinki.[1] She has been a member of the Finnish Academy of Sciences since 2001 and was inducted as a First Class Knight of the Order of the White Rose of Finland in 2015.[2] Nevalainen works on corpus linguistics, the history of English and historical sociolinguistics.
Background and career
[edit]Nevalainen received a B.A. in English philology and general linguistics at the University of Helsinki in 1977, before going to University College London for postgraduate studies from 1980 to 1981.[3] She then completed her Ph.L (1986) and Ph.D. (1991) at the University of Helsinki. She has since been a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge and University of Sheffield.
Nevalainen is currently[when?] editor-in-chief of the monograph series Oxford Studies in the History of English[4] and co-editor of the Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics journal. She is also currently[when?] building an open-access Language Change Database to facilitate statistical modelling and comparative sociolinguistic typologies.[5] Since 1993, she has been leading the compilation of the Corpora of Early English Correspondence, which currently[when?] comprises 5.1 million words of Late Middle and Early Modern English from 1400 to 1800.[6]
In 2002, a Festschrift entitled Variation Past and Present (Mémoires de la Société Néophilologique LXI), was complied in her honor by Raumolin-Brunberg, H. et al.[7]
Notable publications
[edit]- Nevalainen, T. (2006) An Introduction to Early Modern English. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.[8]
- Nevalainen, T. (ed.) & Traugott, E. (ed.) (2012) The Oxford Handbook of the History of English. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press. (Oxford Handbooks in Linguistics)[9]
- Nevalainen, T. & Raumolin-Brunberg, H. (2017) Historical sociolinguistics: Language change in Tudor and Stuart England. January 2017 (2nd rev. ed.) London: Routledge - Taylor & Francis Group.[10]
References
[edit]- ^ "Kieli muuttuu, samoin kielen tutkimus - 375 Humanistia" (in Finnish). Retrieved 19 July 2017.
- ^ "6.12.2015 annetut kunniamerkit" [Honours awarded on 6-12-2015] (in Finnish). Suomen Valkoisen Ruusun ja Suomen Leijonan ritarikuntien. Archived from the original on 5 December 2015. Retrieved 24 April 2023.
- ^ "Kieli muuttuu, samoin kielen tutkimus - 375 Humanistia" (in Finnish). Retrieved 19 July 2017.
- ^ "Terttu Nevalainen". University of Helsinki. 14 December 2015. Retrieved 19 July 2017.
- ^ "Language Change Database - Home". University of Helsinki. Retrieved 19 July 2017.[dead link]
- ^ "CoRD | Corpora of Early English Correspondence (CEEC)". University of Helsinki. Retrieved 19 July 2017.[dead link]
- ^ Raumolin-Brunberg, H (ed.). Festschrift: Variation Past and Present (Mémoires de la Société Néophilologique LXI). et al. University of Helsinki. Retrieved 19 July 2017.
- ^ Hope, Jonathan (September 2006). "terttu nevalainen. An Introduction to Early Modern English". The Review of English Studies. 57 (231). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press: 545–546. doi:10.1093/res/hgl072. ISSN 0034-6551.
- ^ Nevalainen, Terttu; Traugott, Elizabeth Closs (2012). Nevalainen, Terttu; Traugott, Elizabeth Closs (eds.). The Oxford Handbook of the History of English. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199922765.001.0001. ISBN 9780199922765.
- ^ Nevalainen, Terttu; Raumolin-Brunberg, Helena (2016). Historical sociolinguistics - University of Helsinki Research Portal - University of Helsinki. doi:10.4324/9781315475172. ISBN 9781315475172. Retrieved 19 July 2017.
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External links
[edit]- Terttu Nevalainen, University of Helsinki
- Language Change Database[dead link]
- Corpora of Early English Correspondence (CEEC)[dead link]
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