Jukka Suomela
List of John Benjamins publications in which Jukka Suomela is involved.
Articles
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
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