Terttu Nevalainen
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Terttu Nevalainen | |
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| Born | 31 May 1952 Vuolijoki, Finland |
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| Fields | Linguistics (historical) |
| Institutions | University of Helsinki |
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.
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 to 1981.[3] She then completed her Ph.L (1986) and Ph.D. (1991) at the University of Helsinki. She has since been a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge and University of Sheffield.
Nevalainen is currently[when?] 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[when?] building an open-access Language Change Database to facilitate statistical modelling and comparative sociolinguistic typologies.[5] Since 1993, she has been leading the compilation of the Corpora of Early English Correspondence, which currently[when?] comprises 5.1 million words of Late Middle and Early Modern English from 1400 to 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]
