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Research Unit for Variation, Contacts and Change in English @helsinkiuni. OA series: https://xitter.cf/t.co/eKZT2aBJyS

Helsinki, Finland
Joined December 2013
Varienger Aatu Liimatta is defending his dissertation on Subregisters on Reddit: Functional Variation across Text Lengths, urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-951-51-8… Opponent @TonyMcEnery, custos Turo Hiltunen
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This video presentation about Varieng and some of our recent research is now available at youtube.com/watch?v=rDuYGQkA…
Watch the next LADAL Opening Webinar this Tuesday, Sep. 21 (tomorrow), 5pm Brisbane (9am Hamburg) on the VARIENG research unit in Helsinki by Terttu Nevalainen, Turo Hiltunen & Aatu Miimatta (details: slcladal.github.io/opening.h…)
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Varienger Teo Juvonen successfully defended his PhD dissertation yesterday – congrats, Teo! His topic was "The language of possession: Genitive variation in Late Middle and Early Modern English" and the opponent was Dr Cynthia L. Allen.
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At the launch event of the Corpus of Late Modern English Medical Texts and the accompanying book - congrats Irma Taavitsainen and team! #corpusresources
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Varienger Maura Ratia pitching her poster, "Finding evidence for changing society: A diachronic study of medical discourse in 1500-1800". #ICAME39
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#ICAME39 in Tampere is in full swing. Now: tribute to Matti Rissanen.
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New book! Diachronic Developments in English News Discourse, ed. by @MPalanderCollin, M. Ratia & I. Taavitsainen: doi.org/10.1075/ahs.6
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Programme of the Varieng autumn seminar, Oct 28-29. Now Aatu Liimatta on a multidimensional study of register variation on #Reddit.
.@jlijffijt on randomness in corpora: even the word 'the' isn't that homogeneously distributed in the BNC.
Terttu Nevalainen giving her presentation on the predictive potential of empirical historical research #isle3