Tanja Säily
List of John Benjamins publications in which Tanja Säily is involved.
Titles
Exploring Future Paths for Historical Sociolinguistics
Edited by Tanja Säily, Arja Nurmi, Minna Palander-Collin and Anita Auer
This volume explores potential paths in historical sociolinguistics, with a particular focus on the inter-related areas of methodological innovations, hitherto un- or under-explored textual resources, and theoretical advancements and challenges. The individual chapters cover Dutch, Finnish and… read more[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 7] 2017. vii, 331 pp.
Words in Dictionaries and History: Essays in honour of R.W. McConchie
Edited by Olga Timofeeva and Tanja Säily
Bringing together fifteen articles by scholars in Europe and North America, this collection aims to represent and advance studies in historical lexis. It highlights the significance of the understanding of dictionary-making and language-making as important socio-cultural phenomena. With its general… read more[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice, 14] 2011. xvi, 292 pp.
2024 Chapter 2. New approaches to investigating change in derivational productivity: Gender and internal factors in the development of ‑ ity and ‑ ness , 1600–1800 Crossing Boundaries through Corpora: Innovative corpus approaches within and beyond linguistics, Buschfeld, Sarah, Patricia Ronan, Theresa Neumaier, Andreas Weilinghoff and Lisa Westermayer (eds.), pp. 8–40 | Chapter
We study the productivity of the suffixes ‑ness and ‑ity in seventeenth‑ and eighteenth-century letters in the Corpora of Early English Correspondence. We analyze the role of gender and five internal factors: etymology, the word class of the base, branching structure, semantics, and occurrence… read more
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
2024 Engaging with bad (meta)data in historical corpus linguistics Challenges in Corpus Linguistics: Rethinking corpus compilation and analysis, Kaunisto, Mark and Marco Schilk (eds.), pp. 9–34 | Chapter
In this chapter, we discuss some common pitfalls related to historical data and its use in linguistic analysis. We argue that the “philologist’s dilemma”, as originally proposed by Rissanen (1989), should be reconceptualized to meet the needs of the fast-evolving field of corpus linguistics,… read more
2022 New methods for analysing diachronic suffix competition across registers: How - ity gained ground on - ness in Early Modern English Corpus studies of language through time: Special issue of the International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 27:4 (2022), McEnery, Tony, Gavin Brookes and Isobelle Clarke (eds.), pp. 506–528 | Article
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… read more
2018 Chapter 12. Change or variation? Productivity of the suffixes ‑ness and ‑ity Patterns of Change in 18th-century English: A sociolinguistic approach, Nevalainen, Terttu, Minna Palander-Collin and Tanja Säily (eds.), pp. 197–218 | Chapter
2018 Chapter 14. Conservative and progressive individuals Patterns of Change in 18th-century English: A sociolinguistic approach, Nevalainen, Terttu, Minna Palander-Collin and Tanja Säily (eds.), pp. 235–242 | Chapter
2018 Explorations into the social contexts of neologism use in early English correspondence The Dynamics of Lexical Innovation: Data, methods, models, Kerremans, Daphné, Jelena Prokić, Quirin Würschinger and Hans-Jörg Schmid (eds.), pp. 30–49 | Article
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… read more
2017 The future of historical sociolinguistics? Exploring Future Paths for Historical Sociolinguistics, Säily, Tanja, Arja Nurmi, Minna Palander-Collin and Anita Auer (eds.), pp. 1–19 | Chapter
In this chapter we discuss the current achievements of historical sociolinguistics and highlight new insights provided by the contributions in the volume. Taking the essay by Nevalainen (2015) as a starting point, we will consider the themes of crossing boundaries and bridging gaps between… read more
2017 Exploring part-of-speech frequencies in a sociohistorical corpus of English Exploring Future Paths for Historical Sociolinguistics, Säily, Tanja, Arja Nurmi, Minna Palander-Collin and Anita Auer (eds.), pp. 23–52 | Chapter
We investigate the usefulness of part-of-speech (POS) annotation as a tool in the study of sociolinguistic variation and genre evolution. We analyse how POS ratios change over time in the Parsed Corpus of Early English Correspondence (c.1410–1681), which social groups lead the changes, and whether… 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
2011 Introduction Words in Dictionaries and History: Essays in honour of R.W. McConchie, Timofeeva, Olga and Tanja Säily (eds.), pp. xiii–xvi | Miscellaneous