Terttu Nevalainen

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Curriculum vitae

Terttu Nevalainen

- Master of Arts 1977 (English philology, phonetics, general linguistics, Romance philology, theoretical philosophy), PGCE (English) 1978, Licentiate degree 1986, University of Helsinki

- postgraduate studies 1980–81, University College London

- PhD 1991, University of Helsinki

- Associate professor 1993–97, University of Helsinki

- Visiting researcher and lecturer in 1992, 1994 and 1996, University of Cambridge

- Professor and Chair of English Philology 1997–, University of Helsinki

- Senior researcher 1996–97, 2001–02, 2008–09, Academy of Finland

- Leverhulme Visiting Professor 2007, University of Sheffield

- Academy Professor 2010–14, Academy of Finland

- Director of the Research Unit for Variation, Contacts and Change in English, 2001-

- Member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, 2001–

- Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), 2019–

Major research themes: English language and its variation and change, corpus linguistic research, historical sociolinguistics, English during the Tudor and Stuart period.

See further:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terttu_Nevalainen

http://375humanistia.helsinki.fi/en/humanists/terttu-nevalainen

Fields of Science

6121 Languages
Linguistics
Historical sociolinguisticss
Corpus linguistics

International and National Collaboration Publications and projects within past five years.

Publications

75 Chapter
37 Article
13 Anthology or special issue
6 Book
9 More

Patterns of Change in 18th-century English: A Sociolinguistic Approach

Nevalainen, T. (ed.), Palander-Collin, M. (ed.) & Säily, T. (ed.), 2018, Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 311 p. (Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics; no. 8)

Research output: Book/Report › Anthology or special issue

Open Access

Historical sociolinguistics: Language change in Tudor and Stuart England

Nevalainen, T. & Raumolin-Brunberg, H., 2016, Second, revised edition ed. Abingdon: Routledge - Taylor & Francis Group. 306 p.

Research output: Book/Report › Book › Scientific › peer-review

Significance testing of word frequencies in corpora

Lijffijt, J., Nevalainen, T., Säily, T., Papapetrou, P., Puolamäki, K. & Mannila, H., 2016, In : Digital Scholarship in the Humanities : DSH . 31, 2, p. 374-397 24 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review

Open Access

File

Social networks and language change in Tudor and Stuart London ‒ only connect?

Nevalainen, T., 1 Jul 2015, In : English Language and Linguistics. 19, 2, p. 269-292 24 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review

What are historical sociolinguistics?

Nevalainen, T., 28 Aug 2015, In : Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics. 1, 2, p. 243–269 26 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review

Projects

1 Active
7 Finished

Reassessing language change: the challenge of real time / Reaaliajan haasteet kielen muutoksen tutkimuksessa

Nevalainen, T., Säily, T., Vartiainen, T., Dominowska, A., Öhman, E., Kesäniemi, J., Trudgill, P., Suomela, J. & Lijffijt, J.

01/09/2014 → 31/08/2018

Project: Research project

STRATAS: Interfacing structured and unstructured data in sociolinguistic research on language change/Tekstin ja rakenteisen tiedon yhdistäminen kielenmuutoksen sosiolingvistisessä tutkimuksessa

Nevalainen, T., Säily, T., Sairio, A., Kaislaniemi, S., Mäkelä, E., Nordlund, T., Isokoski, P. & Siirtola, H.

01/01/2016 → 31/12/2019

Project: Research project

Research Unit for the Study of Variation, Contacts and Change in English (VARIENG)

ben-Aaron, D., Heikkinen, K., Fodor, A., Hall, A., Hintikka, M., Honkapohja, A., Juvonen, T., Kahlas-Tarkka, L., Kaislaniemi, S., Kerttula, S., Kilpinen, P., Kilpiö, M., Korhonen, M., Laitinen, M., Lehto, A., Lähdesmäki, S. M., Marttila, V., Mauranen, A., Mäkinen, M. S., McConchie, R., Meurman-Solin, A., Nevala, M., Nevalainen, T., Nurmi, A., Nuutinen, T., Paananen-Porkka, M., Paatola, U., Pahta, P. I., Palander-Collin, M., Peitsara, K., Ratia, M., Raumolin-Brunberg, H., Rissanen, M., Sairio, A., Sorva, E., Suhr, C., Stenvall, M., Säily, T., Taavitsainen, I., Hiltunen, T., Timofeeva, O., Tissari, H., Tyrkkö, J., Valtonen, I., Vartiainen, T., Vasko, A. & Österman, A.