Selected list of publications by Merja Kytö
1. Books and special issues
Early North-American Englishes (M. Kytö & L. Siebers eds). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, forthcoming.
Intensifiers in English: A Sociopragmatic Analysis, 1700–1900 (C. Claridge, E. Jonsson & M. Kytö). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.
ICAME Journal 44 (M. Kytö, A.-B. Stenström & I. Mindt eds). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2020.
Late Modern English: Novel Encounters (M. Kytö & E. Smitterberg eds). Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2020.
Punctuation in Context – Past and Present Perspectives (C. Claridge & M. Kytö eds). Bern: Peter Lang, 2020.
ICAME Journal 43 (M. Kytö, A.-B. Stenström & I. Mindt eds). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2019.
Dialogues in Diachrony: Celebrating Historical Corpora of Speech-Related Texts (M. Kytö & T. Walker eds). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2018.
ICAME Journal 42 (M. Kytö, A.-B. Stenström & I. Mindt eds). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2018.
Punctuation: Past and Present. Special issue of Studia Neophilologica
(B. Andersson & M. Kytö eds). London: Routledge, 2018.
ICAME Journal 41 (M. Kytö, A.-B. Stenström & I. Mindt eds). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2017.
Interfacing Individuality and Collaboration in English Language Research World. Studia Neophilologica, Vol. 89, supplement 1, special issue (M. Kytö, J. Smith & I. Taavitsainen eds). London: Routledge, 2017.
Texts from Speech and Speech in Texts. Special issue of the Nordic Journal of English Studies. Vol. 16, no. 1 (T. Walker & M. Kytö eds). Gothenburg: University of Gothenburg, Department of Languages and Literature, 2017.
Årsbok 2015 (M. Kytö ed.). Uppsala: Kungl. Humanistiska Vetenskaps-Samfundet i Uppsala, 2016.
ICAME Journal 40 (M. Kytö, A.-B. Stenström & I. Mindt eds). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2016.
The Cambridge Handbook of English Historical Linguistics (M. Kytö & P. Pahta eds). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Årsbok 2014 (M. Kytö ed.). Uppsala: Kungl. Humanistiska Vetenskaps-Samfundet i Uppsala, 2015.
Developments in English: Expanding Electronic Evidence (I. Taavitsainen, M. Kytö, C. Claridge & J. Smith eds). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Årsbok 2013 (M. Kytö ed.). Uppsala: Kungl. Humanistiska Vetenskaps-Samfundet i Uppsala, 2014.
Manuscript Studies and Codicology: Theory and Practice. Special issue of Studia Neophilologica
(M. Peikola & M. Kytö eds). London: Routledge, 2014.
Confess if you be Guilty: Witchcraft Records in their Linguistic and Socio-cultural Setting. Special issue of Studia Neophilologica
(M. Kytö ed.). London: Routledge, 2012.
English Corpus Linguistics: Crossing Paths (M. Kytö ed.). Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2012.
Testifying to Language and Life in Early Modern England. Including a CD-ROM containing An Electronic Text Edition of Depositions 1560–1760 (ETED) (M. Kytö, P. J. Grund & T. Walker eds). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2011.
Early Modern English Dialogues: Spoken Interaction as Writing (J. Culpeper & M. Kytö eds). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Language Change and Variation from Old English to Late Modern English. A Festschrift for Minoji Akimoto (Linguistic Insights 114) (M. Kytö, J. Scahill & H. Tanabe eds). Bern: Peter Lang, 2010.
Records of the Salem Witch-Hunt (B. Rosenthal, G. A. Adams, M. Burns, P. Grund, R. Hiltunen, L. Kahlas-Tarkka, M. Kytö, M. Peikola, B. C. Ray, M. Rissanen, M. K. Roach & R. Trask eds). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Corpus Linguistics: An International Handbook (HSK / Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft / Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science 29.1–2) (A. Lüdeling & M. Kytö eds). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2008–2009.
Guide to A Corpus of English Dialogues 1560–1760
(Studia Anglistica Upsaliensia 130) (M. Kytö & T. Walker eds). Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2006.
Nineteenth-century English. Stability and Change (M. Kytö, M. Rydén & E. Smitterberg eds). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Samtal i livet och i litteraturen / Conversation in Life and Literature. Papers from the ASLA Symposium, Uppsala, 8–9 November 2001 (U. Melander Marttala, C. Östman & M. Kytö eds). Uppsala: ASLA, 2002.
A Reader in Early Modern English (Bamberger Beiträge zur Englischen Sprachwissenschaft 43) (M. Rydén, I. Tieken-Boon van Ostade & M. Kytö eds). Bern: Peter Lang, 1998.
English in Transition: Corpus-Based Studies in Linguistic Variation and Genre Styles (Topics in English Linguistics 23) M. Rissanen, M. Kytö & K. Heikkonen eds). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1997.
Grammaticalization at Work: Studies of Long-Term Developments in English (Topics in English Linguistics 24). M. Rissanen, M. Kytö & K. Heikkonen eds). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1997.
Tracing the Trail of Time. Proceedings from the Second Diachronic Corpora Workshop, New College, University of Toronto, May 1995 (R. Hickey, M. Kytö, I. Lancashire & M. Rissanen eds). Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1997.
Speech Past and Present. Studies in English Dialectology in Memory of Ossi Ihalainen (Bamberger Beiträge zur Englischen Sprachwissenschaft / University of Bamberg Studies in English Linguistics 38) (J. Klemola, M. Kytö & M. Rissanen eds). Bern: Peter Lang, 1996.
Corpora across the Centuries. Proceedings of the First International Colloquium on English Diachronic Corpora, St Catharine’s College Cambridge, 25–27 March, 1993 (M. Kytö, M. Rissanen & S. Wright eds). Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1994.
Early English in the Computer Age: Explorations through the Helsinki Corpus (Topics in English Linguistics 11) M. Rissanen, M. Kytö & M. Palander-Collin eds). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1993.
Variation and Diachrony, with Early American English in Focus: Studies on CAN/MAY and SHALL/WILL (Bamberger Beiträge zur Englischen Sprachwissenschaft 28 / University of Bamberg Studies in English Linguistics 28) (M. Kytö ed.). Bern: Peter Lang, 1991. [A cumulative PhD dissertation, University of Helsinki.]
Corpus Linguistics, Hard and Soft. Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on English Language Research on Computerized Corpora (Language and Computers: Studies in Practical Linguistics 2) (M. Kytö, O. Ihalainen & M. Rissanen eds). Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1988.
2. Articles
A Little Something goes a Long Way: Little in the Old Bailey Corpus (C. Claridge, E. Jonsson & M. Kytö). Forthcoming.
Coordination in the courtroom: The uses of AND in the records of the Salem Witchcraft trials (M. Kytö). In M. Kytö & L. Siebers (eds), Early North-American Englishes. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, forthcoming.
Entirely innocent: A historical sociopragmatic analysis of maximizers in the Old Bailey Corpus
(C. Claridge, E. Jonsson & M. Kytö). Forthcoming.
Migration, localities, and discourse: A century of community cookbook data and language contact (M. Kytö & A. Hoffman). Forthcoming.
English in North America (M. Kytö). In D. Schreier, M. Hundt & E. W. Schneider (eds), The Cambridge Handbook of World Englishes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020, 160–184.
Introduction: Late Modern English studies into the twenty-first century (M. Kytö & E. Smitterberg). In M. Kytö & E. Smitterberg (eds), Late Modern English: Novel Encounters. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2020, 1–17.
Introduction: Multiple functions and contexts of punctuation (C. Claridge & M. Kytö). In C. Claridge & M. Kytö (eds), Punctuation in Context – Past and Present Perspectives. Bern: Peter Lang, 2020, 9–20.
L’interaction orale du passé: A Corpus of English Dialogues 1560–1760
(M. Kytö & T. Walker). Langages 217(1), 2020, 55–69.
A (great) deal of: Developments in 19th-century British and Australian English (C. Claridge & M. Kytö). In S. Jansen & L. Siebers (eds), Processes of Change: Studies in Late Modern and Present-Day English. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2019, 49–71.
Register in historical linguistics (M. Kytö). Register Studies 1(1), 2019, 136–167.
The conjunction ‘and’ in phrasal and clausal structures in the Old Bailey Corpus
(M. Kytö & E. Smitterberg). In N. Yáñez-Bouza, E. Moore, L. van Bergen & W. B. Hollmann (eds), Categories, Constructions, and Change in English Syntax. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019, 234–250.
Varying social roles and networks on a family farm: Evidence from Swedish immigrant letters, 1880s to 1930s (A. Hoffman & M. Kytö). Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics 5(2), 2019, 1–31.
Heritage Swedish, English, and textual space in rural communities of practice (A. Hoffman & M. Kytö). In J. Heegård Petersen & K. Kühl (eds), Selected Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas (WILA 8). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press, 2018, 44–54.
Introduction (M. Kytö & T. Walker). In M. Kytö & T. Walker (eds), Dialogues in Diachrony: Celebrating Historical Corpora of Speech-Related Texts. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2018, 161–166.
Introduction: Exploring the multifaceted faces of punctuation (B. Andersson & M. Kytö). In B. Andersson & M. Kytö (eds), Punctuation: Past and Present. Special issue of Studia Neophilologica
. London: Routledge, 2018, 1–4.
Breaking boundaries: Current research trends in English linguistics and philology (M. Kytö, J. Smith & I. Taavitsainen). In M. Kytö, J. Smith & I. Taavitsainen (eds), Interfacing Individuality and Collaboration in English Language Research World (
Studia Neophilologica, Special Issue), 2017, 1–4.
The linguistic landscapes of Swedish heritage cookbooks in the American Midwest, 1895–2005 (A. Hoffman & M. Kytö). Studia Neophilologica 89(2), 2017, 261–286.
Introduction (M. Kytö & P. Pahta). In M. Kytö & P. Pahta (eds), The Cambridge Handbook of English Historical Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016, 1–15.
Well! Burn me, or hang me, I will stand in the truth of Christ: Investigating early spoken English (M. Kytö). In E. Eggert & J. Kilian (eds), Historische Mündlichkeit. Bern: Peter Lang, 2016, 163–180.
Diachronic registers (M. Kytö & E. Smitterberg). In D. Biber & R. Reppen (eds), The Cambridge Handbook of English Corpus Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015, 330–345.
English genres in diachronic corpus linguistics (E. Smitterberg & M. Kytö). In P. Shaw, B. Erman, G. Melchers & P. Sundkvist (eds), From Clerks to Corpora: Essays on the English Language Yesterday and Today. Stockholm: Stockholm University, 2015, 117–133.
English in the digital age: A general introduction (I. Taavitsainen, M. Kytö, C. Claridge & J. Smith). In I. Taavitsainen, M. Kytö, C. Claridge & J. Smith (eds), Developments in English: Expanding Electronic Evidence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015, 1–8.
Guidelines for normalising Early Modern English corpora: Decisions and justifications (D. Archer, M. Kytö, A. Baron & P. Rayson). ICAME Journal 39, 2015, 5–24.
I had lost sight of them then for a bit, but I went on pretty fast: Two degree modifiers in the Old Bailey Corpus (C. Claridge & M. Kytö). In I. Taavitsainen, A. H. Jucker & J. Tuominen (eds), Diachronic Corpus Pragmatics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2014, 29–52.
Philology on the move: Manuscript studies at the dawn of the 21st century (M. Kytö & M. Peikola). In M. Peikola & M. Kytö (eds), Manuscript Studies and Codicology: Theory and Practice (
Studia Neophilologica, Special Issue), 2014, 1–8.
You are a bit of a sneak: Exploring a degree modifier in the Old Bailey Corpus (C. Claridge & M. Kytö). In M. Hundt (ed.), Late Modern English Syntax. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014, 239–268.
Features of layout and other visual effects in the source manuscripts of An Electronic Text Edition of Depositions 1560–1760 (ETED) (T. Walker & M. Kytö). In A. Meurman-Solin & J. Tyrkkö (eds), Principles and Practices for the Digital Editing and Annotation of Diachronic Data (Studies in Variation, Contacts and Change in English 14). Helsinki: VARIENG, 2013, available at <[URL]>
Evidence from Historical Corpora up to the Twentieth Century (M. Kytö & P. Pahta). In T. Nevalainen & E. Traugott (eds), The Oxford Handbook of the History of English. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012, 123–133.
Introduction (M. Kytö). In M. Kytö (ed.), Confess if you be Guilty: Witchcraft Records in their Linguistic and Socio-Cultural Setting (
Studia Neophilologica, Special Issue), 2012, 1–5.
New perspectives, theories and methods: Corpus linguistics (M. Kytö). In L. Brinton & A. Bergs (eds), English Historical Linguistics. An International Handbook, Vol. 2 (Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science 34.2). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2012, 1509–1531.
Corpora and historical linguistics (M. Kytö). In S. Th. Gries (ed.), Corpus Linguistics (Brazilian Journal of Applied Linguistics/Revista Brasileira de Linguística Aplicada (BJAL), Special Issue 11(2)), 2010, 417–457.
Data in historical pragmatics (M. Kytö). In A. Jucker & I. Taavitsainen (eds), Historical Pragmatics (Handbooks of Pragmatics 8). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2010, 33–67.
Explorations into ‘spoken’ interaction of the past: Evidence from early English texts (M. Kytö). In J. Helbig & R. Schallegger (eds), Anglistentag 2009 Klagenfurt – Proceedings (Proceedings of the Conference of the German Association of University Teachers of English 31). Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2010, 9–20.
Non-standard language in earlier English (M. Kytö & C. Claridge). In R. Hickey (ed.), Varieties in English Writing: The Written Word as Linguistic Evidence (Varieties of English Around the World G41). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2010, 15–41.
Linguistic introduction (P. Grund, R. Hiltunen, L. Kahlas-Tarkka, M. Kytö, M. Peikola & M. Rissanen). In B. Rosenthal, G. A. Adams, M. Burns, P. Grund, R. Hiltunen, L. Kahlas-Tarkka, M. Kytö, M. Peikola, B. C. Ray, M. Rissanen, M. K. Roach & R. Trask (eds), Records of the Salem Witch-Hunt. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009, 64–90.
Engelskans historia speglad i sina texter (M. Kytö). Årsbok 2008. Stockholm: Kungl. Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademien, 2008, 65–75.
My dearest Minnykins: Style, gender and affect in 19th century English letters (M. Kytö & S. Romaine). In G. Watson (ed.), The State of Stylistics: PALA 26. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2008, 229–263.
Collocational and idiomatic aspects of verbs in Early Modern English: A corpus-based study of MAKE, HAVE, GIVE, TAKE and DO. A reprint of the previous 1999 publication (M. Kytö). In W. Teubert & R. Krishnamurthy (eds), Corpus Linguistics: Critical Concepts in Linguistics. London: Routledge, 2007, 349–385.
Engelska (M. Kytö). In E. Strangert (ed.), Databaser och digitalisering inom humaniora – existerande resurser och framtida behov. Bilaga 4. Stockholm: Vetenskapsrådet, Database Infrastructure Committee (DISC), 2007, no pagination.
English witness depositions 1560–1760: An electronic text edition (M. Kytö, T. Walker & P. Grund). ICAME Journal 31, 2007, 65–85.
Historisk dialoganalys: Lexikala upprepningar i äldre nyengelska (M. Kytö). Kungliga Vetenskapssamhällets i Uppsala Årsbok 36 (2005–2006), 2007, 41–46.
Regional variation and the language of English witness depositions 1560–1760: Constructing a ‘linguistic’ edition in electronic form (M. Kytö, P. Grund & T. Walker). In P. Pahta, I. Taavitsainen, T. Nevalainen & J. Tyrkkö (eds), VARIENG E-Series special issue: Towards Multimedia in Corpus Studies, 2007, available at <[URL]>
Adjective comparison in nineteenth-century English (M. Kytö & S. Romaine). In M. Kytö, M. Rydén & E. Smitterberg (eds), Nineteenth-century English: Stability and Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006, 194–214.
Good, good indeed, the best that ere I heard: Exploring lexical repetitions in the Corpus of English Dialogues 1560–1760
(J. Culpeper & M. Kytö). In I. Taavitsainen, J. Härmä & J. Korhonen (eds), Dialogic Language Use / Dimensions du dialogisme / Dialogischer Sprachgebrauch (Mémoires de la Société Néophilologique LXVI). Helsinki: Société Néophilologique, 2006, 69–85.
Introduction: Exploring nineteenth-century English – past and present perspectives (M. Kytö, M. Rydén & E. Smitterberg). In M. Kytö, M. Rydén & E. Smitterberg (eds), Nineteenth-century English: Stability and Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006, 1–16.
Nineteenth-century English: An age of stability or a period of change? (M. Kytö & E. Smitterberg). In R. Facchinetti & M. Rissanen (eds), Corpus Linguistic Studies in Diachronic English (Linguistic Insights: Studies in Language and Communication 31). Bern: Peter Lang, 2006, 199–230.
We had like to have been killed by thunder & lightning: The semantic and pragmatic history of a construction that like to disappeared (M. Kytö & S. Romaine). Journal of Historical Pragmatics 6(1), 2005, 1–35.
Editing the documents from the Salem witchcraft trials: An exploration of a linguistic treasury (P. Grund, M. Kytö & M. Rissanen). American Speech 79(2), 2004, 146–166.
The emergence of American English: Evidence from seventeenth-century records in New England (M. Kytö). In R. Hickey (ed.), Legacies of Colonial English: Studies in Transported Dialects (Studies in English Language). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, 121–157.
The linguistic study of Early Modern English speech-related texts: How ‘bad’ can ‘bad’ data be? (M. Kytö & T. Walker). Journal of English Linguistics 31(3), 2003, 221–248.
Lexical bundles in Early Modern English dialogues: A window into the speech-related language of the past (J. Culpeper & M. Kytö). In T. Fanego, B. Méndez-Naya & E. Seoane (eds), Sounds, Words, Texts and Change. Selected Papers from the 11 ICHEL, Santiago de Compostela, 7–11 September 2000 (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 224). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2002, 45–65.
The go-futures in English and French viewed as an areal feature (A. Danchev & M. Kytö). NOWELE 40, 2002, 29–60.
The Middle English for to + infinitive construction: A twofold contact phenomenon? (A. Danchev & M. Kytö). In D. Kastovsky & A. Mettinger (eds), Language Contact in the History of English (Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature 1). Bern: Peter Lang, 2001, 35–55.
Adjective comparison and standardisation processes in American and British English from 1620 to the present (M. Kytö & S. Romaine). In L. Wright (ed.), The Development of Standard English 1300–1800. Theories, Descriptions, Conflicts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000, 171–194.
Building a bridge between the present and the past: A corpus of 19th-century English (M. Kytö, J. Rudanko & E. Smitterberg). ICAME Journal 24, 2000, 85–97.
Data in historical pragmatics: Spoken interaction (re)cast as writing (J. Culpeper & M. Kytö). Journal of Historical Pragmatics 1(2), 2000, 175–199.
English historical corpora: Report on developments in 1999 (M. Kytö & M. Rissanen). ICAME Journal 24, 2000, 159–175.
Gender voices in the spoken interaction of the past: A pilot study based on Early Modern English trial proceedings (J. Culpeper & M. Kytö). In D. Kastovsky & A. Mettinger (eds), The History of English in Social Context. A Contribution to Historical Sociolinguistics (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs 129). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2000, 53–89.
Robert Keayne’s Notebooks: A verbatim record of spoken English in early Boston? (M. Kytö). In S. C. Herring, P. van Reenen & L. Schøsler (eds), Textual Parameters in Older Languages (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 195). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2000, 273–308.
The conjunction and in Early Modern English: Frequencies and uses in speech-related writing and other texts (J. Culpeper & M. Kytö). In R. Bermúdez-Otero, D. Denison, R. M. Hogg & C. B. McCully (eds), Generative Theory and Corpus Studies. A Dialogue from 10 ICEHL (Topics in English Linguistics 31). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2000, 299–326.
Collocational and idiomatic aspects of verbs in Early Modern English: A corpus-based study of MAKE, HAVE, GIVE, TAKE, and DO (M. Kytö). In L. J. Brinton & M. Akimoto (eds), Collocational and Idiomatic Aspects of Composite Predicates in the History of English. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1999, 167–206.
English historical corpora: Report on developments in 1998 (M. Kytö & M. Rissanen). ICAME Journal 23, 1999, 175–188.
Investigating nonstandard language in a corpus of Early Modern English dialogues: Methodological considerations and problems (J. Culpeper & M. Kytö). In I. Taavitsainen, G. Melchers & P. Pahta (eds), Writing in Nonstandard English (Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 67). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1999, 171–187.
Modifying pragmatic force: Hedges in Early Modern English dialogues (J. Culpeper & M. Kytö). In A. H. Jucker, G. Fritz & F. Lebsanft (eds), Historical Dialogue Analysis (Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 66). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1999, 293–312.
Pragmatik i språkets förflutna: Nya insikter från talspråksbaserad äldre nyengelska (M. Kytö). Årsbok 1998. Uppsala: Kungl. Humanistiska Vetenskaps-Samfundet i Uppsala (Annales Societatis Litterarum Humaniorum Regiae Upsaliensis), 1999, 41–56.
Backdating the English constraint grammar parser for the analysis of English historical texts (M. Kytö & A. Voutilainen). In R. Hogg & L. van Bergen (eds), Historical Linguistics 1995: Selected papers from the twelfth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Manchester, August 1995. Vol. 2. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1998, 149–166.
English historical corpora: Report on developments in 1997 (M. Kytö & M. Rissanen). ICAME Journal 22, 1998, 113–120.
BE/HAVE + past participle: The choice of the auxiliary with intransitives from Late Middle to Modern English (M. Kytö). In M. Rissanen, M. Kytö & K. Heikkonen (eds), English in Transition: Corpus-Based Studies in Linguistic Variation and Genre Styles (Topics in English Linguistics 23). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1997, 17–85.
Competing forms of adjective comparison in Modern English: What could be more quicker and easier and more effective? (M. Kytö & S. Romaine). In T. Nevalainen & L. Kahlas-Tarkka (eds), To Explain the Present. Studies in the Changing English language In Honour of Matti Rissanen (Mémoires de la Société Néophilologique 52). Helsinki: Société Néophilologique, 1997, 329–352.
English historical corpora: Report on developments in 1996 (M. Kytö & M. Rissanen). ICAME Journal 21, 1997, 109–120.
Language analysis and diachronic corpora (M. Kytö & M. Rissanen). In R. Hickey, M. Kytö, I. Lancashire & M. Rissanen (eds), Tracing the Trail of Time. Proceedings from the Second Diachronic Corpora Workshop, New College, University of Toronto, Toronto, May 1995. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1997, 9–22.
Therfor speke playnly to the poynt: Punctuation in Robert Keayne’s notes of church meetings from early Boston, New England (M. Kytö). In R. Hickey & S. Puppel (eds), Language History and Linguistic Modelling. A Festschrift for Jacek Fisiak on his 60th Birthday (Trends in Linguistics, Studies and Monographs 101). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1997, 323–342.
Towards a corpus of dialogues, 1550–1750 (J. Culpeper & M. Kytö). In H. Ramisch & K. Wynne (eds), Language in Time and Space. Studies in Honour of Wolfgang Viereck on the Occasion of his 60th Birthday. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1997, 60–71.
A corpus of English for specific purposes: Work in progress at the University of Tampere (J. Norri & M. Kytö). In C. E. Percy, C. F. Meyer & I. Lancashire (eds), Synchronic Corpus Linguistics. Papers from the Sixteenth International Conference on English Language Research on Computerized Corpora (ICAME 16). Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1996, 159–169.
English historical corpora: Report on developments in 1995 (M. Kytö & M. Rissanen). ICAME Journal 20, 1996, 117–132.
The best and most excellentest way: The rivalling forms of adjective comparison in Late Middle and Early Modern English (M. Kytö). In J. Svartvik (ed.), Words. Proceedings of an International Symposium, Lund, 25–26 August 1995 (Konferenser 36). Stockholm: Kungl. Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademien, 1996, 123–144.
Applying the constraint grammar parser of English to the Helsinki Corpus (M. Kytö & A. Voutilainen). ICAME Journal 19, 1995, 23–48.
English historical corpora: Report on developments in 1993–94 (M. Kytö & M. Rissanen). ICAME Journal 19, 1995, 145–158.
BE vs. HAVE with intransitives in Early Modern English (M. Kytö). In F. Fernández, M. Fuster & J. J. Calvo (eds), English Historical Linguistics 1992 (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 113). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1994, 179–190.
The construction be going to + infinitive in Early Modern English (A. Danchev & M. Kytö). In D. Kastovsky (ed.), Studies in Early Modern English (Topics in English Linguistics 13). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1994, 59–77.
Towards a corpus of early American English (M. Kytö). In M. Kytö, M. Rissanen & S. Wright (eds), Corpora across the Centuries. Proceedings of the First International Colloquium on English Diachronic Corpora, St Catharine’s College Cambridge, 25–27 March 1993. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1994, 33–39.
A supplement to the Helsinki Corpus of English texts: The Corpus of Early American English (M. Kytö). In J. Aarts, P. de Haan & N. Oostdijk (eds), English Language Corpora: Design, Analysis and Exploitation. Papers from the Thirteenth International Conference on English Language Research on Computerized Corpora, Nijmegen 1992. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1993, 3–10.
‘By and by enters [this] my artificiall foole … who, when Jack beheld, sodainely he flew at him’: Searching for syntactic constructions in the Helsinki Corpus (M. Kytö & M. Rissanen). In M. Rissanen, M. Kytö & M. Palander-Collin (eds), Early English in the Computer Age: Explorations through the Helsinki Corpus (Topics in English Linguistics 11). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1993, 253–266.
Early American English [a period introduction to the Helsinki Corpus] (M. Kytö). In M. Rissanen, M. Kytö & M. Palander-Collin (eds), Early English in the computer age: Explorations through the Helsinki Corpus (Topics in English Linguistics 11). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1993, 83–91.
General introduction [to the Helsinki Corpus] (M. Kytö & M. Rissanen). In M. Rissanen, M. Kytö & M. Palander-Collin (eds), Early English in the Computer Age: Explorations through the Helsinki Corpus (Topics in English Linguistics 11). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1993, 1–17.
The first international colloquium on English diachronic corpora (St Catharine’s College Cambridge, 25–27 March, 1993) (M. Kytö, M. Rissanen & S. Wright). ICAME Journal 17, 1993, 132–137.
Third-person present singular verb inflection in early British and American English (M. Kytö). Language Variation and Change 5, 1993, 113–139.
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