Merja Kytö

List of John Benjamins publications for which Merja Kytö plays a role.

Journals

Earlier North American Englishes

Edited by Merja Kytö and Lucia Siebers

[Varieties of English Around the World, G66] 2022. viii, 261 pp.
Subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

Late Modern English: Novel encounters

Edited by Merja Kytö and Erik Smitterberg

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 214] 2020. vii, 359 pp.
Subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics

Dialogues in Diachrony: Celebrating Historical Corpora of Speech-related Texts

Edited by Merja Kytö and Terry Walker

Special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 19:2 (2018) v, 141 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Historical linguistics | Pragmatics
Subjects Corpus linguistics | Discourse studies | Electronic/Multimedia Products | English linguistics | Forensic & legal linguistics | Historical linguistics | Pragmatics
Plonsky, Luke, Tove Larsson, Scott Sterling, Merja Kytö, Kate Yaw and Margaret Wood 2024 Chapter 1. A taxonomy of questionable research practices in quantitative humanitiesEthical Issues in Applied Linguistics Scholarship, De Costa, Peter I., Amr Rabie-Ahmed and Carlo Cinaglia (eds.), pp. 10–27 | Chapter
A growing body of research has begun to address ethical issues in the context of Applied Linguistics (e.g., De Costa, 2016; Isbell et al., 2022). One of the messages inherent in this line of inquiry is that ethical concerns are embedded throughout the research cycle from study conceptualization… read more
Kytö, Merja 2022 Coordination in the courtroom: The uses of and in the records of the Salem witchcraft trialsEarlier North American Englishes, Kytö, Merja and Lucia Siebers (eds.), pp. 37–64 | Chapter
Previous research has shown that clausal and phrasal uses of and pattern in ways characteristic of different text types in both Present-day and early English. Speech-based text types such as witness depositions and trial records are likely to show higher rates of clausal uses than written-based… read more
Kytö, Merja and Lucia Siebers 2022 Earlier North American Englishes: Recent advances and future prospectsEarlier North American Englishes, Kytö, Merja and Lucia Siebers (eds.), pp. 1–18 | Chapter
Walker, Terry and Merja Kytö 2022 Chapter 5. Survival or death: M ine/my and thine/thy variation in Early Modern English medical writingCorpus Pragmatic Studies on the History of Medical Discourse, Hiltunen, Turo and Irma Taavitsainen (eds.), pp. 105–126 | Chapter
This quantitative and qualitative study examines the chronological development of the possessive determiners mine, my, thine, and thy in the Early Modern English Medical Texts corpus (EMEMT), focusing on the influence of phonological environment and text category, as well as noting lexical items… read more
Kytö, Merja and Erik Smitterberg 2020 Introduction: Late Modern English studies into the twenty-first centuryLate Modern English: Novel encounters, Kytö, Merja and Erik Smitterberg (eds.), pp. 1–17 | Chapter
Claridge, Claudia and Merja Kytö 2019 Chapter 4. A (great) deal of: Developments in 19th-century British and Australian EnglishProcesses of Change: Studies in Late Modern and Present-Day English, Jansen, Sandra and Lucia Siebers (eds.), pp. 49–72 | Chapter
All variants of the form a x deal of are investigated across nineteenth-century English in south-eastern England and in Australia. Determiner uses dominate followed by adverbial uses with verbs and pronominal uses coming last. The great majority of items found include an adjective, almost… read more
Kytö, Merja 2019 Register in historical linguisticsRegister Studies 1:1, pp. 136–167 | Article
Merja Kytö is Professor of English Language at Uppsala University. In this article, she provides a detailed accounting of the role of register in research on the historical development of language. Her substantial body of work has focused on both the historical development of specific registers,… read more
Kytö, Merja and Terry Walker 2018 IntroductionDialogues in Diachrony: Celebrating Historical Corpora of Speech-related Texts, Kytö, Merja and Terry Walker (eds.), pp. 161–166 | Introduction
Claridge, Claudia and Merja Kytö 2014 I had lost sight of them then for a bit, but I went on pretty fast: Two degree modifiers in the Old Bailey CorpusDiachronic Corpus Pragmatics, Taavitsainen, Irma, Andreas H. Jucker and Jukka Tuominen (eds.), pp. 29–52 | Article
This article investigates the degree modifiers pretty and a bit in the subsection 1730s–1830s of the Old Bailey Corpus (OBC), containing speech-based/related data (ca. 50 million words). Pretty is shown to be already grammaticalized, with the degree modifier uses clearly dominating.… read more
Kytö, Merja, Peter J. Grund and Terry Walker 2011 1. IntroductionTestifying to Language and Life in Early Modern England: Including a CD-ROM containing An Electronic Text Edition of Depositions 1560–1760 (ETED), Kytö, Merja, Peter J. Grund and Terry Walker, pp. 1–14 | Chapter
Kytö, Merja, Peter J. Grund and Terry Walker 2011 9. ConclusionTestifying to Language and Life in Early Modern England: Including a CD-ROM containing An Electronic Text Edition of Depositions 1560–1760 (ETED), Kytö, Merja, Peter J. Grund and Terry Walker, pp. 283–287 | Chapter
Claridge, Claudia and Merja Kytö 2010 Non-standard language in earlier EnglishVarieties of English in Writing: The written word as linguistic evidence, Hickey, Raymond (ed.), pp. 15–42 | Article
The concept of ‘non-standard’ remains somewhat fuzzy during the Early Modern English period. Language change and especially ongoing standardization can make it difficult to pin down an individual feature at any given time as clearly non-standard. Contemporary views of ‘good’ language, which we also… read more
This article discusses the semantic and pragmatic history of a grammatical construction consisting of a form of Be/Have + like followed by an infinitival verb form, which became obsolete in Standard English in the nineteenth century, but still survives in some regional varieties of British and… read more
Danchev, Andrei and Merja Kytö 2002 The go-Futures in English and French Viewed as an Areal FeatureNOWELE Volume 40 (April 2002), pp. 29–60 | Article
Culpeper, Jonathan and Merja Kytö 2000 “Pills to Purge Melancholy” — Nonstandard Elements in A Dialogue Against the Feuer PestilenceWriting in Nonstandard English, Taavitsainen, Irma, Gunnel Melchers and Päivi Pahta (eds.), pp. 151–170 | Article
Culpeper, Jonathan and Merja Kytö 2000 Data in historical pragmatics: Spoken interaction (re)cast as writingJournal of Historical Pragmatics 1:2, pp. 175–199 | Article
In this paper we examine four speech-related text types in terms of how linguistically close they are to spoken face-to-face interaction. Our “conversational” diagnostics include lexical repetitions, question marks (as an indicator of question-answer adjacency pairs), interruptions, and… read more
Kytö, Merja 2000 Robert Keayne’s Notebooks: A verbatim record of spoken English in early Boston?Textual Parameters in Older Languages, Herring, Susan C., Pieter van Reenen and Lene Schøsler (eds.), pp. 273–308 | Article
Culpeper, Jonathan and Merja Kytö 1999 Modifying Pragmatic Force: Hedges in Early Modern English DialoguesHistorical Dialogue Analysis, Jucker, Andreas H., Gerd Fritz and Franz Lebsanft (eds.), pp. 293–312 | Article
Kytö, Merja and Atro Voutilainen 1998 Backdating the English Constraint Grammar Parser for the analysis of English historical textsHistorical Linguistics 1995: Volume 2: Germanic linguistics, Hogg, Richard M. and Linda van Bergen (eds.), pp. 149–166 | Article
Hasselgård, Hilde, Juhani Klemola and Merja Kytö 1997 AbstractsInternational Journal of Corpus Linguistics 2:2, pp. 309–313 | Section header
Hasselgård, Hilde, Juhani Klemola, Susan Pintzuk and Merja Kytö 1997 AbstractsInternational Journal of Corpus Linguistics 2:1, pp. 173–179 | Miscellaneous
Hasselgård, Hilde, Juhani Klemola, Outi Merisalo and Merja Kytö 1996 AbstractsInternational Journal of Corpus Linguistics 1:1, pp. 155–170 | Miscellaneous
Hasselgård, Hilde, Juhani Klemola, Susan Pintzuk and Merja Kytö 1996 AbstractsInternational Journal of Corpus Linguistics 1:2, pp. 335–343 | Miscellaneous
Kytö, Merja 1986 On the use of the modal auxiliaries Can and May in American EnglishDiversity and Diachrony, Sankoff, David, pp. 123–138 | Article