Terttu Nevalainen

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.

Terttu Nevalainen
Born	(1952-05-31) 31 May 1952 (age 73) Vuolijoki, Finland
Nationality	Finnish
Alma mater	University of Helsinki University College London
Scientific career
Fields	Linguistics (historical)
Institutions	University of Helsinki

Background and career

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]

Notable publications

• Nevalainen, T. (2006) An Introduction to Early Modern English. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.^[8]
• Nevalainen, T. (ed.) & Traugott, E. (ed.) (2012) The Oxford Handbook of the History of English. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press. (Oxford Handbooks in Linguistics)^[9]
• Nevalainen, T. & Raumolin-Brunberg, H. (2017) Historical sociolinguistics: Language change in Tudor and Stuart England. January 2017 (2nd rev. ed.) London: Routledge - Taylor & Francis Group.^[10]