Merja Kytö

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

Journals

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics (IJCL)

Edited by Jesse Egbert and Bethany Gray

ISSN 2542-9477 | E-ISSN 2542-9485

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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

Testifying to Language and Life in Early Modern England: Including a CD-ROM containing An Electronic Text Edition of Depositions 1560–1760 (ETED)

Merja Kytö, Peter J. Grund and Terry Walker

[Not in series, 162] 2011. xxi, 360 pp. (Incl. CD-Rom)

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Kytö, Merja 2022 Coordination in the courtroom: The uses of and in the records of the Salem witchcraft trials Earlier North American Englishes, Kytö, Merja and Lucia Siebers (eds.), pp. 37–64

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 | Chapter

Kytö, Merja and Lucia Siebers 2022 Earlier North American Englishes: Recent advances and future prospects Earlier North American Englishes, Kytö, Merja and Lucia Siebers (eds.), pp. 1–18

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Walker, Terry and Merja Kytö 2022 Chapter 5. Survival or death: Mine/my and thine/thy variation in Early Modern English medical writing Corpus Pragmatic Studies on the History of Medical Discourse, Hiltunen, Turo and Irma Taavitsainen (eds.), pp. 105–126

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 | Chapter

Kytö, Merja and Erik Smitterberg 2020 Introduction: Late Modern English studies into the twenty-first century Late Modern English: Novel encounters, Kytö, Merja and Erik Smitterberg (eds.), pp. 1–17

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Claridge, Claudia and Merja Kytö 2019 Chapter 4. A (great) deal of: Developments in 19th-century British and Australian English Processes of Change: Studies in Late Modern and Present-Day English, Jansen, Sandra and Lucia Siebers (eds.), pp. 49–72

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 | Chapter

Kytö, Merja 2019 Register in historical linguistics Register Studies 1:1, pp. 136–167

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, as… read more | Article

Kytö, Merja and Terry Walker 2018 Introduction Dialogues in Diachrony: Celebrating Historical Corpora of Speech-related Texts, Kytö, Merja and Terry Walker (eds.), pp. 161–166

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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 Corpus Diachronic Corpus Pragmatics, Taavitsainen, Irma, Andreas H. Jucker and Jukka Tuominen (eds.), pp. 29–52

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 | Article

Kytö, Merja 2011 8. ETED: Distribution versions, editorial principles, and viewing and search options Testifying 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. 247–282

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Kytö, Merja, Peter J. Grund and Terry Walker 2011 1. Introduction Testifying 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

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Kytö, Merja, Peter J. Grund and Terry Walker 2011 9. Conclusion Testifying 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

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Walker, Terry and Merja Kytö 2011 7. Linguistic variation and change in the depositions Testifying 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. 215–246

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Claridge, Claudia and Merja Kytö 2010 Non-standard language in earlier English Varieties of English in Writing: The written word as linguistic evidence, Hickey, Raymond (ed.), pp. 15–42

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 | Article

Kytö, Merja 2005 Review of Lindquist & Mair ((2004)): Corpus Approaches to Grammaticalization in English International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 10:2, pp. 270–275

Review

Kytö, Merja and Suzanne Romaine 2005 “We had like to have been killed by thunder & lightning”: The semantic and pragmatic history of a construction that like to disappeared Journal of Historical Pragmatics 6:1, pp. 1–35

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 | Article

Culpeper, Jonathan and Merja Kytö 2002 Lexical bundles in Early Modern English dialogues: A window into the speech-related language of the past Sounds, Words, Texts and Change: Selected papers from 11 ICEHL, Santiago de Compostela, 7–11 September 2000, Fanego, Teresa, Belén Méndez-Naya and Elena Seoane (eds.), pp. 45–63

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Danchev, Andrei and Merja Kytö 2002 The go-Futures in English and French Viewed as an Areal Feature NOWELE Volume 40 (April 2002), pp. 29–60

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Culpeper, Jonathan and Merja Kytö 2000 “Pills to Purge Melancholy” — Nonstandard Elements in A Dialogue Against the Feuer Pestilence Writing in Nonstandard English, Taavitsainen, Irma, Gunnel Melchers and Päivi Pahta (eds.), pp. 151 ff.

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Culpeper, Jonathan and Merja Kytö 2000 Data in historical pragmatics: Spoken interaction (re)cast as writing Journal of Historical Pragmatics 1:2, pp. 175–199

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 | Article