Samuli Kaislaniemi
List of John Benjamins publications for which Samuli Kaislaniemi plays a role.
Articles
2018 Chapter 4. The Corpus of Early English Correspondence Extension (CEECE) Patterns of Change in 18th-century English: A sociolinguistic approach, Nevalainen, Terttu, Minna Palander-Collin and Tanja Säily (eds.), pp. 45–60 | Chapter
2018 Appendix: Editions in the Corpora of Early English Correspondence Patterns of Change in 18th-century English: A sociolinguistic approach, Nevalainen, Terttu, Minna Palander-Collin and Tanja Säily (eds.), pp. 295–304 | Miscellaneous
2017 “A graphic system which leads its own linguistic life”? Epistolary spelling in English, 1400–1800 Exploring Future Paths for Historical Sociolinguistics, Säily, Tanja, Arja Nurmi, Minna Palander-Collin and Anita Auer (eds.), pp. 187–213 | Chapter
Traditional accounts of the history of English spelling are primarily based on printed texts. According to them, English orthography developed from great diversity in Late Middle English to modern standard spelling by 1800. Studies have also revealed a split between public and private spelling… read more
2011 Early East India Company merchants and a rare word for sex Words in Dictionaries and History: Essays in honour of R.W. McConchie, Timofeeva, Olga and Tanja Säily (eds.), pp. 169–192 | Article
The records of the British East India Company are an uncharted source for historical linguistics and lexicography. In particular, letters between Company employees stationed in the East Indies contain a large amount of colloquial language use. Among the more or less standardized reporting on… read more
2009 Encountering and appropriating the Other: East India Company merchants and foreign terminology The Language of Daily Life in England (1400–1800), Nurmi, Arja, Minna Nevala and Minna Palander-Collin (eds.), pp. 219–251 | Article
This study is a micro-level investigation of the processes of lexical borrowing in a historical language contact situation. It investigates three different types of borrowings from Japanese in the letters of East India Company merchants in Japan, 1613–1622. One type of borrowing in particular, the… read more