Terttu Nevalainen
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 555652 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Terttu Nevalainen |
| NOMBRES | Terttu |
| APELLIDO | Nevalainen |
| FIRMA | NEVALAINEN T |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3088-4903 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1987 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Romaine, Suzanne
Suzanne Romaine (1951– ) has been Merton Professor of English Language at the University of Oxford since 1984.
Diachrony and Diachronica
History of English as punctuated equilibria? A meta-analysis of the rate of linguistic change in Middle English
In this paper, we explore the rate of language change in the history of English. Our main focus is on detecting periods of accelerated change in Middle English (1150–1500), but we also compare the Middle English data with the Early Modern period (1500–1700) in order to establish a longer diachrony for the pace at which English has changed over time. Our study is based on a meta-analysis of existing corpus research, which is made available through…
Comparative sociolinguistic perspectives on the rate of linguistic change
This issue of the Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics aims to contribute to our understanding of language change in real time by presenting a group of articles particularly focused on social and sociocultural factors underlying language diversification and change. By analysing data from a varied set of languages, including Greek, English, and the Finnic and Mongolic language families, and mainly focussing their investigation on the Middle Ages…
Keywords and triangulation
The recently published volume Keywords for Today is a collaborative work which examines the most important words in contemporary culture by exploring their histories and uses across different periods and discourses. It carries on and updates the work of Raymond Williams’s Keywords, paying attention to the changing political landscape and using modern resources. In this special issue of Critical Quarterly, scholars including linguists, historians,…
From speaker innovation to lexical change
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). The success of this exercise ultimately depends on the data and tools available for ascertaining the status of neologisms in a broader synchronic and dia…
What are historical sociolinguistics
This paper takes a look at recent shifts in sociolinguistic paradigms and considers their applications to historical sociolinguistic research. Besides growth areas such as multilingualism, a current trend is convergence of established approaches. My discussion focuses on those that go even further, bridging the gap between macro- and micro-levels of analysis in the historical context of study. Presented as interdependent levels, layers or domains…
Text Variation Explorer
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 interactive, tightly coupled representations of text that would foster discovery. The paper argues that such visualizations should always be linked for…
The Oxford handbook of the history of English
"The availability of large electronic corpora has caused major shifts in linguistic research, including the ability to analyze much more data than ever before, and to perform micro-analyses of linguistic structures across languages. This has historical linguists to rethink many standard assumptions about language history, and methods and approaches that are relevant to the study of it. The field is now interested in, and attracts, specialists who…
Orthographies in Early Modern Europe
This volume provides, for the first time, a pan-European view of the development of written languages at a key time in their history: that of the 16th century. The major cultural and intellectual upheavals that affected Europe at the time - Humanism, the Reformation and the emergence of modern nation-states - were not isolated phenomena, and the evolution of the orthographical systems of European languages shows a large number of convergences, du…
Placing Middle English in Context
The diffusion of language change in real time
A major issue in the study of language change is the degree to which individual speakers participate in ongoing linguistic changes as these progress over time. In this study, we examine the hypothesis, suggested by research based on the apparent-time model, that in any given period most people are neither progressive nor conservative with regard to ongoing changes, but rather fall between these polarities. Our data come from the Corpus of Early E…
Three perspectives on grammaticalization
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 corpus-linguistic principles such as total accountability and normalcy. The three perspectives on grammaticalization come together in a case study which raises …
Fairly pretty or pretty fair? On the development and grammaticalization of English downtoners
Gender in Grammar and Cognition
The Corpus of Early English Correspondence
Social stratification
Sociolinguistics and Language History
What role has social status played in shaping the English language across the centuries? Have women also been the agents of language standardization in the past? Can apparent-time patterns be used to predict the course of long-term language change? These questions and many others will be addressed in this volume, which combines sociolinguistic methodology and social history to account for diachronic language change in Renaissance English. The app…
History of Englishes
Language change announced
A consideration of how changes in usage come about and whether such changes can be caught and commented on as they occur
But, Only, Just
Adverbial focusing and intonation
To explain the present
Fairly pretty or pretty fair? On the development and grammaticalization of English downtoners
The diffusion of language change in real time
A major issue in the study of language change is the degree to which individual speakers participate in ongoing linguistic changes as these progress over time. In this study, we examine the hypothesis, suggested by research based on the apparent-time model, that in any given period most people are neither progressive nor conservative with regard to ongoing changes, but rather fall between these polarities. Our data come from the Corpus of Early E…
But, Only, Just
Adverbial focusing and intonation
Adverbial focusing and intonation
Language change announced
A consideration of how changes in usage come about and whether such changes can be caught and commented on as they occur
But, Only, Just
The Corpus of Early English Correspondence
Social stratification
Sociolinguistics and Language History
What role has social status played in shaping the English language across the centuries? Have women also been the agents of language standardization in the past? Can apparent-time patterns be used to predict the course of long-term language change? These questions and many others will be addressed in this volume, which combines sociolinguistic methodology and social history to account for diachronic language change in Renaissance English. The app…
History of Englishes
Gender in Grammar and Cognition
Fairly pretty or pretty fair? On the development and grammaticalization of English downtoners
Three perspectives on grammaticalization
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 corpus-linguistic principles such as total accountability and normalcy. The three perspectives on grammaticalization come together in a case study which raises …
Placing Middle English in Context
The diffusion of language change in real time
A major issue in the study of language change is the degree to which individual speakers participate in ongoing linguistic changes as these progress over time. In this study, we examine the hypothesis, suggested by research based on the apparent-time model, that in any given period most people are neither progressive nor conservative with regard to ongoing changes, but rather fall between these polarities. Our data come from the Corpus of Early E…
The Oxford handbook of the history of English
"The availability of large electronic corpora has caused major shifts in linguistic research, including the ability to analyze much more data than ever before, and to perform micro-analyses of linguistic structures across languages. This has historical linguists to rethink many standard assumptions about language history, and methods and approaches that are relevant to the study of it. The field is now interested in, and attracts, specialists who…
Orthographies in Early Modern Europe
This volume provides, for the first time, a pan-European view of the development of written languages at a key time in their history: that of the 16th century. The major cultural and intellectual upheavals that affected Europe at the time - Humanism, the Reformation and the emergence of modern nation-states - were not isolated phenomena, and the evolution of the orthographical systems of European languages shows a large number of convergences, du…
Text Variation Explorer
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 interactive, tightly coupled representations of text that would foster discovery. The paper argues that such visualizations should always be linked for…
What are historical sociolinguistics
This paper takes a look at recent shifts in sociolinguistic paradigms and considers their applications to historical sociolinguistic research. Besides growth areas such as multilingualism, a current trend is convergence of established approaches. My discussion focuses on those that go even further, bridging the gap between macro- and micro-levels of analysis in the historical context of study. Presented as interdependent levels, layers or domains…
From speaker innovation to lexical change
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). The success of this exercise ultimately depends on the data and tools available for ascertaining the status of neologisms in a broader synchronic and dia…
Keywords and triangulation
The recently published volume Keywords for Today is a collaborative work which examines the most important words in contemporary culture by exploring their histories and uses across different periods and discourses. It carries on and updates the work of Raymond Williams’s Keywords, paying attention to the changing political landscape and using modern resources. In this special issue of Critical Quarterly, scholars including linguists, historians,…
History of English as punctuated equilibria? A meta-analysis of the rate of linguistic change in Middle English
In this paper, we explore the rate of language change in the history of English. Our main focus is on detecting periods of accelerated change in Middle English (1150–1500), but we also compare the Middle English data with the Early Modern period (1500–1700) in order to establish a longer diachrony for the pace at which English has changed over time. Our study is based on a meta-analysis of existing corpus research, which is made available through…
Comparative sociolinguistic perspectives on the rate of linguistic change
This issue of the Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics aims to contribute to our understanding of language change in real time by presenting a group of articles particularly focused on social and sociocultural factors underlying language diversification and change. By analysing data from a varied set of languages, including Greek, English, and the Finnic and Mongolic language families, and mainly focussing their investigation on the Middle Ages…
To explain the present
Diachrony and Diachronica
Romaine, Suzanne
Suzanne Romaine (1951– ) has been Merton Professor of English Language at the University of Oxford since 1984.
Linguistics (18 obras) · History (16 obras) · Philosophy (14 obras) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (13 obras) · Computer Science (12 obras) · Lexicography and Language Studies (8 obras) · Sociology (8 obras) · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity (6 obras) · Gender Studies in Language (5 obras) · Language change (5 obras)