Terttu Nevalainen

Terttu Nevalainen (born 31 May 1952, Vuolijoki) is a Finnish linguist and the current Chair of English Philology at the University of Helsinki.^[1] She has been a Member of the Finnish Academy of Sciences since 2001 and was inducted as a First Class Knight of the Order of the White Rose of Finland in 2015.^[2] Nevalainen works on corpus linguistics, the History of English, and historical sociolinguistics.

Background and Career

Nevalainen received a B.A. in English Philology and General Linguistics at the University of Helsinki in 1977, before going to University College London for postgraduate studies from 1980 - 1981.^[3] She then completed her Ph.L (1986) and Ph.D (1991) at the University of Helsinki. Nevalainen has since served as a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge and University of Sheffield.

Nevalainen is currently Editor-in-Chief of the monograph series Oxford Studies in the History of English^[4] and co-editor of the Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics journal. She is also currently building an open-access Language Change Database to facilitate statistical modelling and comparative sociolinguistic typologies.^[5] Since 1993, Nevalainen has been leading the compilation of the Corpora of Early English Correspondence, which currently comprises 5.1 million words of Late Middle and Early Modern English from 1400 - 1800.^[6]

In 2002, a Festschrift entitled Variation Past and Present (Mémoires de la Société Néophilologique LXI), was complied in her honor by Raumolin-Brunberg, H. et al.^[7]

Notable Publications

• Nevalainen, T. & Raumolin-Brunberg, H. (2017) Historical sociolinguistics: Language change in Tudor and Stuart England. Jan 2017 (2nd rev. ed.) London: Routledge - Taylor & Francis Group.^[8]
• Nevalainen, T. (ed.) & Traugott, E. (ed.) (2012) The Oxford Handbook of the History of English. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press. (Oxford Handbooks in Linguistics)^[9]
• Nevalainen, T. (2006) An Introduction to Early Modern English. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.^[10]

References

1. ↑ "Kieli muuttuu, samoin kielen tutkimus - 375 Humanistia" (in Finnish). Retrieved 2017-07-19. 
2. ↑ User, Super. "6.12.2015 annetut kunniamerkit". www.ritarikunnat.fi (in Finnish). Retrieved 2017-07-19. 
3. ↑ "Kieli muuttuu, samoin kielen tutkimus - 375 Humanistia" (in Finnish). Retrieved 2017-07-19. 
4. ↑ "Terttu Nevalainen | University of Helsinki". University of Helsinki. 2015-12-14. Retrieved 2017-07-19. 
5. ↑ "Language Change Database - Home". www.helsinki.fi. Retrieved 2017-07-19. 
6. ↑ "CoRD | Corpora of Early English Correspondence (CEEC)". www.helsinki.fi. Retrieved 2017-07-19. 
7. ↑ "Festschrift: Variation Past and Present (Mémoires de la Société Néophilologique LXI), ed. by Raumolin-Brunberg et al. - University of Helsinki Research Portal - University of Helsinki". tuhat.helsinki.fi. Retrieved 2017-07-19. 
8. ↑ "Historical sociolinguistics - University of Helsinki Research Portal - University of Helsinki". tuhat.helsinki.fi. Retrieved 2017-07-19. 
9. ↑ "The Oxford Handbook of the History of English". 2012-11-01. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199922765.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199922765. 
10. ↑ Hope, Jonathan (2006-09-01). "terttu nevalainen. An Introduction to Early Modern English. Pp. x + 176. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006, Pb £12.00, Hb £40.00.". The Review of English Studies. 57 (231): 545–546. ISSN 0034-6551. doi:10.1093/res/hgl072. 

External links

• University of Helsinki Faculty Page
• Language Change Database
• Corpora of Early English Correspondence (CEEC)