Tanja Säily
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 6701234 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Tanja Säily |
| PRENOMES | Tanja |
| SOBRENOME | Säily |
| ASSINATURA | SÄILY T |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4407-8929 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 9 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 1 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 8 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2014 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Constructional approaches to creativity and productivity in English
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…
Variation and change in the productivity of be going to V in the Corpus of Historical American English , 1810–2009
This article focuses on the poster child of grammaticalization, be going to V. First expressing ‘motion with intention’, in Early Modern English the construction came to signify ‘motionless intention’. The grammaticalization process continued in Late Modern English with subjectification, so that ‘intention’ was gradually replaced by ‘prediction’. We study the process from Late Modern to Present-Day English in the 200-million-word fiction section …
Dimensions of Incoming Economic Vocabulary in Eighteenth-Century Britain
The eighteenth century is often connected with economic improvement. Considering the significant functional expansion of the English language during this period, driven by various socio-cultural changes, and the contemporary interest in the economy, we hypothesize that this linguistic expansion facilitated the spread of economic vocabulary to new contexts. Combining linguistic and historical expertise, we study vocabulary drawn from the ‘trade an…
New methods for analysing diachronic suffix competition across registers
This paper tracks stylistic variation in the use of two roughly synonymous suffixes, the Romance - ity and the native - ness , during the Early Modern English period. We seek to verify from a statistical viewpoint the claims of Rodríguez-Puente (2020) , who reports on a decrease of - ness in favour of - ity in registers representative of the speech-written and formal-informal continua at that time. To this end, we develop new methods of statistic…
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…
Explorations into the social contexts of neologism use in early English correspondence
This paper describes ongoing work towards a rich analysis of the social contexts of neologism use in historical corpora, in particular the Corpora of Early English Correspondence , with research questions concerning the innovators, meanings and diffusion of neologisms. To enable this kind of study, we are developing new processes, tools and ways of combining data from different sources, including the Oxford English Dictionary , the Historical The…
Exploring Future Paths for Historical Sociolinguistics
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…
New methods for analysing diachronic suffix competition across registers
This paper tracks stylistic variation in the use of two roughly synonymous suffixes, the Romance - ity and the native - ness , during the Early Modern English period. We seek to verify from a statistical viewpoint the claims of Rodríguez-Puente (2020) , who reports on a decrease of - ness in favour of - ity in registers representative of the speech-written and formal-informal continua at that time. To this end, we develop new methods of statistic…
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…
Exploring Future Paths for Historical Sociolinguistics
Explorations into the social contexts of neologism use in early English correspondence
This paper describes ongoing work towards a rich analysis of the social contexts of neologism use in historical corpora, in particular the Corpora of Early English Correspondence , with research questions concerning the innovators, meanings and diffusion of neologisms. To enable this kind of study, we are developing new processes, tools and ways of combining data from different sources, including the Oxford English Dictionary , the Historical The…
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…
New methods for analysing diachronic suffix competition across registers
This paper tracks stylistic variation in the use of two roughly synonymous suffixes, the Romance - ity and the native - ness , during the Early Modern English period. We seek to verify from a statistical viewpoint the claims of Rodríguez-Puente (2020) , who reports on a decrease of - ness in favour of - ity in registers representative of the speech-written and formal-informal continua at that time. To this end, we develop new methods of statistic…
Dimensions of Incoming Economic Vocabulary in Eighteenth-Century Britain
The eighteenth century is often connected with economic improvement. Considering the significant functional expansion of the English language during this period, driven by various socio-cultural changes, and the contemporary interest in the economy, we hypothesize that this linguistic expansion facilitated the spread of economic vocabulary to new contexts. Combining linguistic and historical expertise, we study vocabulary drawn from the ‘trade an…
Constructional approaches to creativity and productivity in English
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…
Variation and change in the productivity of be going to V in the Corpus of Historical American English , 1810–2009
This article focuses on the poster child of grammaticalization, be going to V. First expressing ‘motion with intention’, in Early Modern English the construction came to signify ‘motionless intention’. The grammaticalization process continued in Late Modern English with subjectification, so that ‘intention’ was gradually replaced by ‘prediction’. We study the process from Late Modern to Present-Day English in the 200-million-word fiction section …
Linguistics (8 obras) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (7 obras) · Philosophy (6 obras) · Sociology (4 obras) · Computer Science (3 obras) · History (3 obras) · Lexicography and Language Studies (3 obras) · Natural language processing (3 obras) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (3 obras) · Artificial Intelligence (2 obras)