Terttu Nevalainen

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

Journals

Book series

Titles

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

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

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.
Subjects Corpus linguistics | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics

Letter Writing

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

Letter Writing

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

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 corpusUnlocking 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 2018 Chapter 2. Society and culture in the long 18th centuryPatterns 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 EnglishPatterns 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 neologismsThe 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 ‑sPatterns 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 perspectivePatterns 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 EnglishLanguage 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 EnglishNorms 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 linguisticsInternational 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 correspondenceThe 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 corporaThe 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 IntroductionLetter 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 EnglishTypes 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 overviewTypes of Variation: Diachronic, dialectal and typological interfaces, Nevalainen, Terttu, Juhani Klemola and Mikko Laitinen (eds.), pp. 3–19 | Article
Nevalainen, Terttu 2004 IntroductionLetter Writing, Nevalainen, Terttu and Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen (eds.), pp. 181–191 | 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
Nevalainen, Terttu 2003 EnglishGermanic Standardizations: Past to Present, Deumert, Ana and Wim Vandenbussche (eds.), pp. 127–156 | Article
Nevalainen, Terttu and Helena Raumolin-Brunberg 1998 Reconstructing the social dimension of diachronic language changeHistorical Linguistics 1995: Volume 2: Germanic linguistics, Hogg, Richard M. and Linda van Bergen (eds.), pp. 189 ff. | Article
Nevalainen, Terttu and Helena Raumolin-Brunberg 1995 Constraints on Politeness: The Pragmatics of Address Formulae in Early English CorrespondanceHistorical Pragmatics: Pragmatic developments in the history of English, Jucker, Andreas H. (ed.), pp. 541 ff. | Article
Nevalainen, Terttu 1990 Modelling functional differentiation and function loss: the case of butPapers from the 5th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Adamson, Sylvia M., Vivien A. Law, Nigel Vincent and Susan Wright (eds.), pp. 337 ff. | Article
Nevalainen, Terttu 1986 The development of preverbal only in early modern EnglishDiversity and Diachrony, Sankoff, David, pp. 111–121 | Article