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Professor Terttu Nevalainen FBA

The history of the English language, particularly of the Early Modern English period; historical sociolinguistics; language variation and change; corpus linguistics; design and compilation of digital text corpora
Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
2019
Subjects
Linguistics
Sections
Linguistics and Philology
Website
https://www.helsinki.fi/en/researchgroups/varieng/terttu-nevalainen

Current post

Professor and Research Director, Department of Languages, Faculty of Arts, University of Helsinki

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