VARIENG

Research Unit for Variation, Contacts and Change in English @helsinkiuni. OA series:

[VARIENG @Varieng]

Happy New Year! Here's a list of last year's publications by Variengers – lots of research on variation, contacts and change in English 😊 #corpuslinguistics

https://t.co/Vwy7XyuvrV

[Tanja Säily @TanjaSaily]

Hybrid seminar, 29 November:

Linn Holmberg: The #Dictionary Craze in #Enlightenment Europe, 1665–1789

Everybody welcome! More information on the website of the Helsinki Society for Historical Lexicography: https://t.co/HpIGTDF0LZ

#hellexsoc #lexicography #dictionaries

[samklai in the other place too @samklai]

One month to go to my workshop on material aspects of letter-writing! ✉️

Epistolary materiality includes the text – join us to talk about forgotten marginalia, tremulous hands, and instructions to turn the page or burn the letter. 🔥

Do come! – small bursaries available. 💶

[Martin Schweinberger @ronautic]

Join us TODAY, 6:30pm CEST: ISLE Online Expert Panel on "From the core to the periphery: The value of marginal aspects of language" with Brian Joseph , Gunther Kaltenböck, and Belén Méndez-Naya! https://t.co/G1o32wBJJN @ISLELinguistics #EnglishLinguistics @BelnNaya

[Tanja Säily @TanjaSaily]

New paper with @hilpert_martin & @JukkaSuomela!

New approaches to investigating change in derivational productivity: Gender and internal factors in the development of ‑ity and ‑ness, 1600–1800

https://t.co/lshNXrNE28
#openaccess version: https://t.co/ufykWWJwic
#cxg #sociolx

[Tanja Säily @TanjaSaily]

New paper with Turo Vartiainen! The working title was "Life is hard when you're a historical corpus linguist" 😄

Engaging with bad (meta)data in historical #corpuslinguistics

https://t.co/9k0bR1qwnK
#openaccess version: https://t.co/HyJWk7i5bN

[samklai in the other place too @samklai]

Only a month and a week now to my workshop on epistolary materiality – do join us! Students welcome too!
Come for the seals 🦭💌, stay for the elephants 🐘 and blue silk floss.

[Ylva Biri @YlvaBiri]

Can social media discussions be civil? 🤔

Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen and I are organizing a panel called "Keeping it civil online: in pursuit of civility in social media interaction" @ #IPrA2025 in Brisbane.

Call for papers open until 1 Nov 2024 #pragmatics

https://t.co/ENYFXTgp7K

[Martin Schweinberger @ronautic]

Check out the next ISLE Online Expert Panel "Perspectives on Grammatical Change" Wednesday, September 18, 5pm (CEST), with Marianne Hundt, Terttu Nevalainen, and Joel Wallenberg! Details at https://t.co/G1o32wBJJN @ISLELinguistics #EnglishLinguistics @MarianneHundt @childs_claire

[VARIENG @Varieng]

The Transatlantic Component of the Corpus of Academic Spoken English (TaCoCASE) has been added to CoRD: https://t.co/GWo07QKJly
#corpusresources

[Tanja Säily @TanjaSaily]

📣 New paper! 📣

Changing styles of letter-writing? Evidence from 400 years of early English letters in a POS-tagged corpus

Unfortunately not open access but if you'd like a copy, please be in touch. 😊 #corpuslinguistics

https://t.co/pKEx91Phn5

[Langnet @Langnet_fi]

This is a friendly reminder of the visiting lecture organized @helsinkiuni :
Dr. @matthuntgardner will be talking on the topic "Old Areal Feature, New Social Meaning: The Balto-Atlantic Ingressive yup↓ in Canadian Maritime English"
on April 18, at 14.15 at Metsätalo Lect. Hall 6

[FINSSE @FINSSESoc]

📢Tampere University is looking for a university lecturer in English linguistics:
https://t.co/KVtZ9osLrE

[FINSSE @FINSSESoc]

Want to meet and network with other researchers of English language, translation and literature in Finland? Finsse-11 conference offers a good opportunity to do just that! Today is the deadline for abstract submission, more info on the website: https://t.co/qhYKutoizH

[Hanna Snellman @HannaSnellman]

⁦@helsinkiuni⁩ based scholar Elizabeth Peterson co-edited a book ”English in the Nordic countries”. In short: English is not a threat to national languages, not at least in Finland. Worth reading for ones worried. ⁦@epeterso⁩ https://t.co/me4yc9t3GE

[VARIENG @Varieng]

#corpusresources

[samklai in the other place too @samklai]

New #publication klaxon!

In 2022, we released the Corpus of Early English Correspondence Extension Sampler (CEECES). Last week a data paper describing the CEECES came out in the Research Data Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences – Open Access!
https://t.co/hvLaxfreQT

[VARIENG @Varieng]

The Small Corpus of Colombian English as a Second Language Essays (SCoCESLE) has been added to CoRD: https://t.co/FJIX3Ba4I5
#corpusresources

[Tanja Säily @TanjaSaily]

I'm Researcher of the Month at the Language Bank of Finland – thanks, @FinClarin! https://t.co/tyv6DIVgvy

[Marcin Krygier 🇺🇦🇬🇪🇮🇱🏳️‍🌈 @MKrygier]

The Department of the History of the English Language invites everybody to the 4th on-line lecture in the series Sociolinguistic Aspects of Historical Orthography, organised within the framework of the AMU Institute of Advances Studies in Social Sciences and Humanities programme.

[Ylva Biri @YlvaBiri]

My PhD thesis in linguistics analyses how and why we express subjective perspective on social media.

Titled "Stancetaking in interest-based online communities: A corpus pragmatic comparative analysis", it is now available for download as pdf: https://t.co/PXbZeDrY5A