
Research Unit for Variation, Contacts and Change in English @helsinkiuni. OA series: https://xitter.cf/t.co/eKZT2aBJyS
Helsinki, Finland
Joined December 2013
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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
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…)
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.
At the launch event of the Corpus of Late Modern English Medical Texts and the accompanying book - congrats Irma Taavitsainen and team! #corpusresources
Varienger Maura Ratia pitching her poster, "Finding evidence for changing society: A diachronic study of medical discourse in 1500-1800". #ICAME39
New book! Diachronic Developments in English News Discourse, ed. by @MPalanderCollin, M. Ratia & I. Taavitsainen: doi.org/10.1075/ahs.6
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









