Terttu Nevalainen
List of John Benjamins publications in which Terttu Nevalainen is involved.
Journals
ISSN 1566-5852 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9854
ISSN 0108-8416 | E‑ISSN 2212‑9715
Book series
Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics
Edited by Marijke J. van der Wal and Terttu Nevalainen
ISSN 2214-1057
Patterns of Change in 18th-century English: A sociolinguistic approach
Edited by Terttu Nevalainen, Minna Palander-Collin and Tanja Säily
Eighteenth-century English is often associated with normative grammar. But to what extent did prescriptivism impact ongoing processes of linguistic change? The authors of this volume examine a variety of linguistic changes in a corpus… read more
The Dynamics of Linguistic Variation: Corpus evidence on English past and present
Edited by Terttu Nevalainen, Irma Taavitsainen, Päivi Pahta and Minna Korhonen
Variability is characteristic of any living language. This volume approaches the ‘life cycle’ of linguistic variability in English using data sources that range from electronic corpora to the internet. In the spirit of the 1968 Weinreich, Labov and Herzog classic, the fifteen contributions divide… read more[Studies in Language Variation, 2] 2008. viii, 339 pp.
Letter Writing
Edited by Terttu Nevalainen and Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen
The contributions in this book discuss letter-writing from 1400 to 1800, and the material studied ranges from the late medieval Paston Letters and the correspondence between Sweden and the German Hanse to Early Modern English family letters and correspondence in natural history between England and… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 1] 2007. viii, 160 pp.
Types of Variation: Diachronic, dialectal and typological interfaces
Edited by Terttu Nevalainen, Juhani Klemola and Mikko Laitinen
This volume interfaces three fields of linguistics rarely discussed in the same context. Its underlying theme is linguistic variation, and the ways in which historical linguists and dialectologists may learn from insights offered by typology, and vice versa. The aim of the contributions is to raise… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 76] 2006. viii, 378 pp.
Letter Writing
Edited by Terttu Nevalainen and Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen
Special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 5:2 (2004) iv, 181 pp.
2024 Diachrony and Diachronica: 40@40 Diachronica 41:4, pp. 556–574 | Editorial
2024 Changing styles of letter-writing? Evidence from 400 years of early English letters in a POS-tagged corpus Unlocking the History of English: Pragmatics, prescriptivism and text types, Caon, Luisella, Moragh S. Gordon and Thijs Porck (eds.), pp. 154–179 | Chapter
We analyse the social embedding of stylistic change in the frequencies of nouns, lexical verbs and personal pronouns in the Corpora of Early English Correspondence from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century. Our visualization methods show that the frequency of nouns exhibits a consistent… read more
2018 Chapter 2. Society and culture in the long 18th century Patterns of Change in 18th-century English: A sociolinguistic approach, Nevalainen, Terttu, Minna Palander-Collin and Tanja Säily (eds.), pp. 13–26 | Chapter
2018 Chapter 1. Approaching change in 18th-century English Patterns of Change in 18th-century English: A sociolinguistic approach, Nevalainen, Terttu, Minna Palander-Collin and Tanja Säily (eds.), pp. 3–12 | Chapter
2018 From speaker innovation to lexical change: A sociohistorical approach to neologisms The Dynamics of Lexical Innovation: Data, methods, models, Kerremans, Daphné, Jelena Prokić, Quirin Würschinger and Hans-Jörg Schmid (eds.), pp. 8–29 | Article
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).… read more
2018 Chapter 7. Going to completion: The diffusion of verbal ‑s Patterns of Change in 18th-century English: A sociolinguistic approach, Nevalainen, Terttu, Minna Palander-Collin and Tanja Säily (eds.), pp. 97–116 | Chapter
2018 Chapter 16. A wider sociolinguistic perspective Patterns of Change in 18th-century English: A sociolinguistic approach, Nevalainen, Terttu, Minna Palander-Collin and Tanja Säily (eds.), pp. 255–270 | Chapter
2015 Age-related variation and language change in Early Modern English Language Development: The lifespan perspective, Gerstenberg, Annette and Anja Voeste (eds.), pp. 129–146 | Article
Focusing on the age variable in real-time language change, my paper traces age-related variation among people taking part in several ongoing changes. More specifically, I examine the age-related patterns characteristic of linguistically progressive and conservative individuals in the English… read more
2014 Norms and usage in seventeenth-century English Norms and Usage in Language History, 1600–1900: A sociolinguistic and comparative perspective, Rutten, Gijsbert, Rik Vosters and Wim Vandenbussche (eds.), pp. 103–128 | Article
In the course of the seventeenth century English spelling became largely fixed in print, and technical and borrowed lexis continued to be codified in dictionaries. Although proposals for ‘improving’ the English language appeared towards the end of the century, contemporary grammar books did not… read more
2014 Text Variation Explorer: Towards interactive visualization tools for corpus linguistics International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 19:3, pp. 417–429 | Article
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… read more
2009 Grasshoppers and blind beetles: Caregiver language in Early Modern English correspondence The Language of Daily Life in England (1400–1800), Nurmi, Arja, Minna Nevala and Minna Palander-Collin (eds.), pp. 137–164 | Article
This case study examines caregiver language in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century letters. It addresses the general issue of how parents and other caregivers talked about and communicated with children and adolescents in their personal correspondence, and, more specifically, to what extent it is… read more
2008 Exploring the dynamics of linguistic variation through public and private corpora The Dynamics of Linguistic Variation: Corpus evidence on English past and present, Nevalainen, Terttu, Irma Taavitsainen, Päivi Pahta and Minna Korhonen (eds.), pp. 1–9 | Article
2007 Introduction Letter Writing, Nevalainen, Terttu and Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen (eds.), pp. 1–11 | Article
2006 Vernacular universals? The case of plural was in Early Modern English Types of Variation: Diachronic, dialectal and typological interfaces, Nevalainen, Terttu, Juhani Klemola and Mikko Laitinen (eds.), pp. 351–369 | Article
2006 ‘Triangulation’ of diachrony, dialectology and typology: An overview Types of Variation: Diachronic, dialectal and typological interfaces, Nevalainen, Terttu, Juhani Klemola and Mikko Laitinen (eds.), pp. 3–19 | Article
2004 Introduction Letter Writing, Nevalainen, Terttu and Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen (eds.), pp. 181–191 | Article
2004 Three perspectives on grammaticalization: Lexico-grammar, corpora and historical sociolinguistics Corpus Approaches to Grammaticalization in English, Lindquist, Hans and Christian Mair (eds.), pp. 1–31 | Article
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… read more
2003 English Germanic Standardizations: Past to Present, Deumert, Ana and Wim Vandenbussche (eds.), pp. 127–156 | Article
1998 Reconstructing the social dimension of diachronic language change Historical Linguistics 1995: Volume 2: Germanic linguistics, Hogg, Richard M. and Linda van Bergen (eds.), pp. 189–210 | Article
1996 Social stratification in Tudor English? English Historical Linguistics 1994: Papers from the 8th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (8 ICEHL, Edinburgh, 19–23 September 1994), Britton, Derek (ed.), pp. 303–326 | Article
1995 Constraints on Politeness: The Pragmatics of Address Formulae in Early English Correspondance Historical Pragmatics: Pragmatic developments in the history of English, Jucker, Andreas H. (ed.), pp. 541–602 | Article
1994 Ladies and gentlemen: the generalization of titles in early modern English English Historical Linguistics 1992: Papers from the 7th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Valencia, 22–26 September 1992, Fernández, Francisco, Miguel Fuster Márquez and Juan Jose Calvo (eds.), pp. 317–328 | Article
1990 Modelling functional differentiation and function loss: the case of but Papers from the 5th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Adamson, Sylvia M., Vivien A. Law, Nigel Vincent and Susan Wright (eds.), pp. 337–356 | Article
1986 The development of preverbal only in early modern English Diversity and Diachrony, Sankoff, David, pp. 111–121 | Article
1985 Lexical variation of early modern English exclusive adverbs: Style switching or a change in progress? Papers from the 4th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Amsterdam, April 10–13, 1985, Eaton, Roger, Olga Fischer, Willem F. Koopman and Frederike van der Leek (eds.), pp. 179–194 | Article