Merja Kytö

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List of John Benjamins publications in which Merja Kytö is involved.

Journals

International Journal for Historical Linguistics

Edited by Claire Bowern

ISSN 0176-4225 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9714

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics

Edited by Michaela Mahlberg

ISSN 1384-6655 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9811

Edited by Jesse Egbert and Bethany Gray

ISSN 2542-9477 | E‑ISSN 2542‑9485

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Earlier North American Englishes

Edited by Merja Kytö and Lucia Siebers

Varieties of English in the U.S. and Canada display fascinating developments from colonial times up until the twenty-first century. To throw light on the linguistics of North American Englishes and their socio-historical contexts, this volume brings together research from various traditions,… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G66] 2022. viii, 261 pp.

Late Modern English: Novel encounters

Edited by Merja Kytö and Erik Smitterberg

The past few decades have witnessed an unprecedented surge of interest in the language of the Late Modern English period. Late Modern English: Novel Encounters covers a broad range of topics addressed by international experts in fields such as phonology, morphology, syntax, lexis, spelling and… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 214] 2020. vii, 359 pp.

Dialogues in Diachrony: Celebrating Historical Corpora of Speech-related Texts

Edited by Merja Kytö and Terry Walker

Special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 19:2 (2018) v, 141 pp.

Testifying to Language and Life in Early Modern England: Including a CD-ROM containing An Electronic Text Edition of Depositions 1560–1760 (ETED)

Merja Kytö, Peter J. Grund and Terry Walker

Testifying to Language and Life in Early Modern England examines various aspects of the witness depositions comprising An Electronic Text Edition of Depositions 1560–1760 (ETED) on the accompanying CD-ROM.ETED combines modern corpus linguistic methodology and editorial theory, and makes available… read more

[Not in series, 162] 2011. xxi, 360 pp. (Incl. CD-Rom)

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Plonsky, Luke, Scott Sterling, Kate Yaw, Tove Larsson and Merja Kytö 2025 Expanding the scope of questionable research practices in applied linguistics Questionable Research Practices in Applied Linguistics, Plonsky, Luke (ed.), pp. 183–191 | Introduction

Questionable research practices (QRPs) comprise a gray area of researcher decisions that may be reasonable in some situations but dubious in others. Recent works in this area have sought to catalog and estimate the presence of QRPs in applied linguistics (e.g., Isbell et al., 2022; Larsson et al. read more

Sterling, Scott, Kate Yaw, Luke Plonsky, Tove Larsson and Merja Kytö 2025 Investigating researcher perceptions of Questionable Research Practices Questionable Research Practices in Applied Linguistics, Plonsky, Luke (ed.), pp. 219–243 | Article

In quantitative applied linguistics research, the ethical grey zone between responsible conduct of research and blatant misconduct covers numerous researcher practices that may be more or less ethical depending on situational variables (e.g., context, researcher intent). Known as questionable… read more

Plonsky, Luke, Tove Larsson, Scott Sterling, Merja Kytö, Kate Yaw and Margaret Wood 2024 Chapter 1. A taxonomy of questionable research practices in quantitative humanities Ethical Issues in Applied Linguistics Scholarship, De Costa, Peter I., Amr Rabie-Ahmed and Carlo Cinaglia (eds.), pp. 10–27 | Chapter

A growing body of research has begun to address ethical issues in the context of Applied Linguistics (e.g., De Costa, 2016; Isbell et al., 2022). One of the messages inherent in this line of inquiry is that ethical concerns are embedded throughout the research cycle from study conceptualization… read more

Kytö, Merja 2022 Coordination in the courtroom: The uses of and in the records of the Salem witchcraft trials Earlier North American Englishes, Kytö, Merja and Lucia Siebers (eds.), pp. 37–64 | Chapter

Previous research has shown that clausal and phrasal uses of and pattern in ways characteristic of different text types in both Present-day and early English. Speech-based text types such as witness depositions and trial records are likely to show higher rates of clausal uses than written-based… read more

Kytö, Merja and Lucia Siebers 2022 Earlier North American Englishes: Recent advances and future prospects Earlier North American Englishes, Kytö, Merja and Lucia Siebers (eds.), pp. 1–18 | Chapter

Walker, Terry and Merja Kytö 2022 Chapter 5. Survival or death: M ine/my and thine/thy variation in Early Modern English medical writing Corpus Pragmatic Studies on the History of Medical Discourse, Hiltunen, Turo and Irma Taavitsainen (eds.), pp. 105–126 | Chapter

This quantitative and qualitative study examines the chronological development of the possessive determiners mine, my, thine, and thy in the Early Modern English Medical Texts corpus (EMEMT), focusing on the influence of phonological environment and text category, as well as noting lexical items… read more

Kytö, Merja and Erik Smitterberg 2020 Introduction: Late Modern English studies into the twenty-first century Late Modern English: Novel encounters, Kytö, Merja and Erik Smitterberg (eds.), pp. 1–17 | Chapter

Claridge, Claudia and Merja Kytö 2019 Chapter 4. A (great) deal of: Developments in 19th-century British and Australian English Processes of Change: Studies in Late Modern and Present-Day English, Jansen, Sandra and Lucia Siebers (eds.), pp. 49–72 | Chapter

All variants of the form a x deal of are investigated across nineteenth-century English in south-eastern England and in Australia. Determiner uses dominate followed by adverbial uses with verbs and pronominal uses coming last. The great majority of items found include an adjective, almost… read more

Kytö, Merja 2019 Register in historical linguistics Register Studies 1:1, pp. 136–167 | Article

Merja Kytö is Professor of English Language at Uppsala University. In this article, she provides a detailed accounting of the role of register in research on the historical development of language. Her substantial body of work has focused on both the historical development of specific registers,… read more

Kytö, Merja and Terry Walker 2018 Introduction Dialogues in Diachrony: Celebrating Historical Corpora of Speech-related Texts, Kytö, Merja and Terry Walker (eds.), pp. 161–166 | Introduction

Claridge, Claudia and Merja Kytö 2014 I had lost sight of them then for a bit, but I went on pretty fast: Two degree modifiers in the Old Bailey Corpus Diachronic Corpus Pragmatics, Taavitsainen, Irma, Andreas H. Jucker and Jukka Tuominen (eds.), pp. 29–52 | Article

This article investigates the degree modifiers pretty and a bit in the subsection 1730s–1830s of the Old Bailey Corpus (OBC), containing speech-based/related data (ca. 50 million words). Pretty is shown to be already grammaticalized, with the degree modifier uses clearly dominating.… read more

Kytö, Merja 2011 8. ETED: Distribution versions, editorial principles, and viewing and search options Testifying to Language and Life in Early Modern England: Including a CD-ROM containing An Electronic Text Edition of Depositions 1560–1760 (ETED), Kytö, Merja, Peter J. Grund and Terry Walker, pp. 247–282 | Chapter

Kytö, Merja, Peter J. Grund and Terry Walker 2011 1. Introduction Testifying to Language and Life in Early Modern England: Including a CD-ROM containing An Electronic Text Edition of Depositions 1560–1760 (ETED), Kytö, Merja, Peter J. Grund and Terry Walker, pp. 1–14 | Chapter

Kytö, Merja, Peter J. Grund and Terry Walker 2011 9. Conclusion Testifying to Language and Life in Early Modern England: Including a CD-ROM containing An Electronic Text Edition of Depositions 1560–1760 (ETED), Kytö, Merja, Peter J. Grund and Terry Walker, pp. 283–287 | Chapter

Walker, Terry and Merja Kytö 2011 7. Linguistic variation and change in the depositions Testifying to Language and Life in Early Modern England: Including a CD-ROM containing An Electronic Text Edition of Depositions 1560–1760 (ETED), Kytö, Merja, Peter J. Grund and Terry Walker, pp. 215–246 | Chapter

Claridge, Claudia and Merja Kytö 2010 Non-standard language in earlier English Varieties of English in Writing: The written word as linguistic evidence, Hickey, Raymond (ed.), pp. 15–42 | Article

The concept of ‘non-standard’ remains somewhat fuzzy during the Early Modern English period. Language change and especially ongoing standardization can make it difficult to pin down an individual feature at any given time as clearly non-standard. Contemporary views of ‘good’ language, which we also… read more

Kytö, Merja 2005 Review of Lindquist & Mair ((2004)): Corpus Approaches to Grammaticalization in English International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 10:2, pp. 270–275 | Review

Kytö, Merja and Suzanne Romaine 2005 “We had like to have been killed by thunder & lightning”: The semantic and pragmatic history of a construction that like to disappeared Journal of Historical Pragmatics 6:1, pp. 1–35 | Article

This article discusses the semantic and pragmatic history of a grammatical construction consisting of a form of Be/Have + like followed by an infinitival verb form, which became obsolete in Standard English in the nineteenth century, but still survives in some regional varieties of British and… read more

Culpeper, Jonathan and Merja Kytö 2002 Lexical bundles in Early Modern English dialogues: A window into the speech-related language of the past Sounds, Words, Texts and Change: Selected papers from 11 ICEHL, Santiago de Compostela, 7–11 September 2000, Fanego, Teresa, Belén Méndez-Naya and Elena Seoane (eds.), pp. 45–63 | Article

Danchev, Andrei and Merja Kytö 2002 The go-Futures in English and French Viewed as an Areal Feature NOWELE Volume 40 (April 2002), pp. 29–60 | Article

Culpeper, Jonathan and Merja Kytö 2000 “Pills to Purge Melancholy” — Nonstandard Elements in A Dialogue Against the Feuer Pestilence Writing in Nonstandard English, Taavitsainen, Irma, Gunnel Melchers and Päivi Pahta (eds.), pp. 151–170 | Article

Culpeper, Jonathan and Merja Kytö 2000 Data in historical pragmatics: Spoken interaction (re)cast as writing Journal of Historical Pragmatics 1:2, pp. 175–199 | Article

In this paper we examine four speech-related text types in terms of how linguistically close they are to spoken face-to-face interaction. Our “conversational” diagnostics include lexical repetitions, question marks (as an indicator of question-answer adjacency pairs), interruptions, and… read more

Kytö, Merja 2000 Robert Keaynes Notebooks: A verbatim record of spoken English in early Boston? Textual Parameters in Older Languages, Herring, Susan C., Pieter van Reenen and Lene Schøsler (eds.), pp. 273–308 | Article

Culpeper, Jonathan and Merja Kytö 1999 Modifying Pragmatic Force: Hedges in Early Modern English Dialogues Historical Dialogue Analysis, Jucker, Andreas H., Gerd Fritz and Franz Lebsanft (eds.), pp. 293–312 | Article

Kytö, Merja 1999 Chapter 6: Collocational and Idiomatic Aspects of Verbs in Early Modern English Collocational and Idiomatic Aspects of Composite Predicates in the History of English, Brinton, Laurel J. and Minoji Akimoto (eds.), pp. 167–206 | Chapter

Kytö, Merja and Atro Voutilainen 1998 Backdating the English Constraint Grammar Parser for the analysis of English historical texts Historical Linguistics 1995: Volume 2: Germanic linguistics, Hogg, Richard M. and Linda van Bergen (eds.), pp. 149–166 | Article

Hasselgård, Hilde, Juhani Klemola and Merja Kytö 1997 Abstracts International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 2:2, pp. 309–313 | Section header

Hasselgård, Hilde, Juhani Klemola, Susan Pintzuk and Merja Kytö 1997 Abstracts International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 2:1, pp. 173–179 | Miscellaneous

Hasselgård, Hilde, Juhani Klemola, Outi Merisalo and Merja Kytö 1996 Abstracts International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 1:1, pp. 155–170 | Miscellaneous

Hasselgård, Hilde, Juhani Klemola, Susan Pintzuk and Merja Kytö 1996 Abstracts International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 1:2, pp. 335–343 | Miscellaneous

Kytö, Merja 1996 Review of Aijmer, Altenberg & Johansson (1996): Languages in Contrast. Papers from a Symposium on Text-Based Cross-Linguistic Studies, Lund 4-5 March 1994 International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 1:2, pp. 331–333 | Review