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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.

Terttu Nevalainen
Born	(1952-05-31) 31 May 1952 (age 70) Vuolijoki, Finland
Nationality	Finnish
Alma mater	University of Helsinki University College London
Scientific career
Fields	Linguistics (historical)
Institutions	University of Helsinki

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

External links

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

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