Turo Vartiainen

Dados Biográficos

ID4055015
NOMETuro Vartiainen
PRENOMESTuro
SOBRENOMEVartiainen
ASSINATURAVARTIAINEN T
AFILIAÇÕESUniversity of Helsinki
ORCID0000-0002-4760-750X
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS10
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR10
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2017
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2025
ÍNDICE H0

  • Constructional approaches to creativity and productivity in English

    Open AccessTuro Vartiainen, Tanja SäilyARTICLEEnglish Language and Linguistics2025

    Linguistic creativity and productivity have become active topics of research, especially amongst scholars who employ insights from Construction Grammar (CxG) in their analyses. The question of how creativity should be defined and operationalized has in particular emerged as a major point of discussion and debate (e.g. Hoffmann 2018, 2024; Bergs 2018; Bergs & Kompa 2020), and the psychological, contextual and interactional factors that underlie cr…

  • The productivity of the Complex Modifier Construction in World Englishes

    Open AccessTuro Vartiainen, Marcus Callies et al.ARTICLEEnglish Language and Linguistics2025

    This article provides a Construction Grammar (CxG) analysis of the Complex Modifier Construction (CMC) in English and an investigation of its productivity in World Englishes with a particular focus on African and South-East Asian Englishes. By examining data from the Corpus of Global Web-based English (GloWbE), we seek to establish whether the productivity of the construction correlates with the developmental phase of the variety of English in Sc…

  • A corpus-pragmatic analysis of linguistic democratisation in the British Hansard

    Open AccessTuro Hiltunen, Turo VartiainenARTICLEJournal of Historical Pragmatics2024Referências: 10

    In this article, we investigate changes in British parliamentary discourse by using the Hansard Corpus (1803–2005). Our first goal is to determine whether parliamentary speeches have become colloquialised by studying frequency changes of select features associated with informal spoken language. Second, by analysing data from the House of Commons and the House of Lords separately, we show that the texts from the two Houses should be considered dis…

  • Democratisation

    Open AccessTuro Hiltunen, Turo Vartiainen et al.ARTICLEJournal of Historical Pragmatics2024Referências: 5

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  • Trends and Recent Change in the Syntactic Distribution of Degree Modifiers

    Open AccessTuro VartiainenARTICLEJournal of English Linguistics2021

    This paper examines the syntactic distribution of degree modifiers in both spoken and written English. The results of the empirical case studies show that degree modifiers, both amplifiers (e.g., very, extremely) and downtoners (e.g., quite, pretty), are generally more often used in predication than in attribution, a result that is in line with earlier observations of the distribution of individual modifiers. This synchronic trend is also evident…

  • History of English as punctuated equilibria? A meta-analysis of the rate of linguistic change in Middle English

    Open AccessTerttu Nevalainen, Tanja Säily et al.ARTICLEJournal of Historical Sociolinguist…2020

    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

    Open AccessTerttu Nevalainen, Tanja Säily et al.ARTICLEJournal of Historical Sociolinguist…2020

    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…

  • How to Make New Use of Existing Resources

    Turo Vartiainen, Mikko HöglundARTICLEAmerican Speech2020Referências: 24

    This article discusses the history and regional variation of the complex preposition off of (e.g., I got off of the bus). The study is intended to uncover detailed information about the use of the form from Early Modern to Present-Day English by examining a variety of linguistic corpora and databases from different perspectives. In addition to charting the history and present-day variation of off of, the study will make a methodological contribut…

  • Referential NPs as subtle expressions of attitude in infanticide trials, 1674–1775

    Turo VartiainenARTICLEJournal of Historical Sociolinguist…2017

    This article discusses how victims of infanticide were portrayed in the Proceedings of the Old Bailey in 1674–1775. More specifically, the study focuses on the use of lexical NPs as subtle foregrounding devices in the trial accounts. It is argued that the use of a prosodically prominent lexical NP in a place where a topical and a highly accessible referent could naturally be expressed by an unstressed pronoun may not be emotionally or attitudinal…

  • Linguistic representations of the social margins in Early and Late Modern English

    Turo Vartiainen, Minna Nevala et al.ARTICLEJournal of Historical Sociolinguist…2017