Terttu Nevalainen

orcid.org/0000-0003-3088-4903

List of John Benjamins publications for which Terttu Nevalainen plays a role.

Journals

Journal of Historical Pragmatics (JHP)

Managing Editor: Stephen Laker

ISSN 0108-8416 | E-ISSN 2212-9715

Book series

Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics (AHS)

Edited by Marijke J. van der Wal and Terttu Nevalainen

ISSN 2214-1057

Titles (5) | Order by:

Patterns of Change in 18th-century English: A sociolinguistic approach

Edited by Terttu Nevalainen, Minna Palander-Collin and Tanja Säily

[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 8] 2018. xi, 311 pp.

Subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

The Dynamics of Linguistic Variation: Corpus evidence on English past and present

Edited by Terttu Nevalainen, Irma Taavitsainen, Päivi Pahta and Minna Korhonen

[Studies in Language Variation, 2] 2008. viii, 339 pp.

Edited by Terttu Nevalainen and Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen

[Benjamins Current Topics, 1] 2007. viii, 160 pp.

Subjects Discourse studies | Historical linguistics | Pragmatics

Types of Variation: Diachronic, dialectal and typological interfaces

Edited by Terttu Nevalainen, Juhani Klemola and Mikko Laitinen

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 76] 2006. viii, 378 pp.

Subjects Historical linguistics | Theoretical linguistics | Typology

Edited by Terttu Nevalainen and Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen

Special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 5:2 (2004) iv, 181 pp.

Subjects Discourse studies | Historical linguistics | Pragmatics

Articles (26) | Order by:

Bowern, Claire, Margaret Thomas, Andrew Garrett, James Kirby, Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales, Tamisha L. Tan, Terttu Nevalainen, Patience Epps and Don Daniels 2024 Diachrony and Diachronica: 40@40 Diachronica 41:4, pp. 556–574 | Editorial

Säily, Tanja, Turo Vartiainen, Harri Siirtola and Terttu Nevalainen 2024 Changing styles of letter-writing? Evidence from 400 years of early English letters in a POS-tagged corpus Unlocking the History of English: Pragmatics, prescriptivism and text types, Caon, Luisella, Moragh S. Gordon and Thijs Porck (eds.), pp. 154–179 | Chapter

We analyse the social embedding of stylistic change in the frequencies of nouns, lexical verbs and personal pronouns in the Corpora of Early English Correspondence from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century. Our visualization methods show that the frequency of nouns exhibits a consistent… read more

Nevalainen, Terttu 2021 Review of Marcus (2018): The Linguistics of Spoken Communication in Early Modern English Writing: Exploring Bess of Hardwick’s Manuscript Letters Journal of Historical Pragmatics 22:1, pp. 153–160 | Review

Nevalainen, Terttu 2018 Chapter 2. Society and culture in the long 18th century Patterns of Change in 18th-century English: A sociolinguistic approach, Nevalainen, Terttu, Minna Palander-Collin and Tanja Säily (eds.), pp. 13–26 | Chapter

Nevalainen, Terttu 2018 Chapter 1. Approaching change in 18th-century English Patterns of Change in 18th-century English: A sociolinguistic approach, Nevalainen, Terttu, Minna Palander-Collin and Tanja Säily (eds.), pp. 3–12 | Chapter

Nevalainen, Terttu 2018 From speaker innovation to lexical change: A sociohistorical approach to neologisms The Dynamics of Lexical Innovation: Data, methods, models, Kerremans, Daphné, Jelena Prokić, Quirin Würschinger and Hans-Jörg Schmid (eds.), pp. 8–29 | Article

Applying a sociolinguistic approach to the study of neologisms, this paper discusses the actuation and diffusion of new words in Early Modern English (EModE; 1500–1700) and draws some parallels with word coining in the comparable but more recent period of Early Modern Finnish (EModF; 1810–1880).… read more

Nevalainen, Terttu 2018 Chapter 7. Going to completion: The diffusion of verbal ‑s Patterns of Change in 18th-century English: A sociolinguistic approach, Nevalainen, Terttu, Minna Palander-Collin and Tanja Säily (eds.), pp. 97–116 | Chapter

Nevalainen, Terttu 2018 Chapter 16. A wider sociolinguistic perspective Patterns of Change in 18th-century English: A sociolinguistic approach, Nevalainen, Terttu, Minna Palander-Collin and Tanja Säily (eds.), pp. 255–270 | Chapter

Nevalainen, Terttu 2015 Age-related variation and language change in Early Modern English Language Development: The lifespan perspective, Gerstenberg, Annette and Anja Voeste (eds.), pp. 129–146 | Article

Focusing on the age variable in real-time language change, my paper traces age-related variation among people taking part in several ongoing changes. More specifically, I examine the age-related patterns characteristic of linguistically progressive and conservative individuals in the English… read more

Nevalainen, Terttu 2014 Norms and usage in seventeenth-century English Norms and Usage in Language History, 1600–1900: A sociolinguistic and comparative perspective, Rutten, Gijsbert, Rik Vosters and Wim Vandenbussche (eds.), pp. 103–128 | Article

In the course of the seventeenth century English spelling became largely fixed in print, and technical and borrowed lexis continued to be codified in dictionaries. Although proposals for ‘improving’ the English language appeared towards the end of the century, contemporary grammar books did not… read more

Siirtola, Harri, Tanja Säily, Terttu Nevalainen and Kari-Jouko Räihä 2014 Text Variation Explorer: Towards interactive visualization tools for corpus linguistics International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 19:3, pp. 417–429 | Article

This paper reviews the gap between current methods of text visualization and the needs of corpus-linguistic research, and introduces a tool that takes a step towards bridging that gap. Current text visualization methods tend to treat the problem as a data-encoding issue only, and do not strive for… read more

Nevalainen, Terttu 2009 Grasshoppers and blind beetles: Caregiver language in Early Modern English correspondence The Language of Daily Life in England (1400–1800), Nurmi, Arja, Minna Nevala and Minna Palander-Collin (eds.), pp. 137–164 | Article

This case study examines caregiver language in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century letters. It addresses the general issue of how parents and other caregivers talked about and communicated with children and adolescents in their personal correspondence, and, more specifically, to what extent it is… read more

Nevalainen, Terttu, Irma Taavitsainen and Päivi Pahta 2008 Exploring the dynamics of linguistic variation through public and private corpora The Dynamics of Linguistic Variation: Corpus evidence on English past and present, Nevalainen, Terttu, Irma Taavitsainen, Päivi Pahta and Minna Korhonen (eds.), pp. 1–9 | Article

Nevalainen, Terttu 2007 Introduction Letter Writing, Nevalainen, Terttu and Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen (eds.), pp. 1–11 | Article

Nevalainen, Terttu 2006 Vernacular universals? The case of plural was in Early Modern English Types of Variation: Diachronic, dialectal and typological interfaces, Nevalainen, Terttu, Juhani Klemola and Mikko Laitinen (eds.), pp. 351–369 | Article

Nevalainen, Terttu, Juhani Klemola and Mikko Laitinen 2006 ‘Triangulation’ of diachrony, dialectology and typology: An overview Types of Variation: Diachronic, dialectal and typological interfaces, Nevalainen, Terttu, Juhani Klemola and Mikko Laitinen (eds.), pp. 3–19 | Article

Nevalainen, Terttu 2004 Introduction Letter Writing, Nevalainen, Terttu and Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen (eds.), pp. 181–191 | Article

Nevalainen, Terttu 2004 Three perspectives on grammaticalization: Lexico-grammar, corpora and historical sociolinguistics Corpus Approaches to Grammaticalization in English, Lindquist, Hans and Christian Mair (eds.), pp. 1–31 | Article

The intersection of lexis and grammar normally provides the focus for the study of grammaticalization. This paper discusses how the focus can be widened by corpus linguistic and sociolinguistic approaches, but is also illustrates the challenges that grammaticalization processes present to… read more