It's happening! I'm about to defend my doctoral dissertation on the linguistics of email marketing! You can follow the stream here: video.helsinki.fi/unitube/live... The puck drops at 13:15 Finnish time!

I'm reading this now and it's perfection! If you want a taster, read The Tomato Thief: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-... My only problem is that after this one I'm all caught up with @tkingfisher.com books – what to do next? Do I go for the children's books written under her real name? Halp 🥺

Great news! This is out: Opening the black box of EEBO academic.oup.com/dsh/advance-...

Turns out the abstract submission deadline for ICAME47 has been extended to 16 November 2025! One more chance to secure your spot in Koblenz 😃 wp.uni-koblenz.de/icame47/cfp/

Tiesittekö, että "kuningatar" on 1800-luvulla muodostettu sana? Joten miten viitattiinkaan suomessa kuningattariin joskus 1600-luvulla… kaino.kotus.fi/vks/?p=as-ar...

oops, I did it again 🎶 Call for papers for Corpus Pragmatics special issue "Speech Acts in English: Corpus Insights from Past to Present", ed. by @racheledf.bsky.social, Christine Elsweiler & me. Abstract submissions due: 1 November 2025 link.springer.com/collections/... #Pragmatics #Linguistics

Week 1 on #CorpusMOOC: key techniques of data analysis #concordance #frequency 👉 Join us today for free! edx.org/learn/social...

Online lecture, 26 September: Prof. Stefan Dollinger: The #Dictionary of #Canadianisms on Historical Principles, Third Edition (2025): non-dominant varieties and the national-identification angle in the 2020s Details & free registration: blogs.helsinki.fi/hellex-socie... #hellexsoc #lexicography

Our special issue on "Constructional approaches to creativity and productivity in English" has been published in English Language & Linguistics! All of the research articles are #openaccess, and the introduction is freely available to read as well: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #cxg

"Esitys yliopistojen rahoituksen leikkaamisesta on täysin käsittämätön ajassa, jossa talouskasvu sakkaa jo valmiiksi”, sanoo rehtorimme Sari Lindblom valtionvarainministeriön ehdotuksesta. www.helsinki.fi/fi/uutiset/k...

Five days left to apply! TT or full professorship in English linguistics here in Tampere, Finland #AcademicJobs

Recommended reading on neural vs. symbolic AI: open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...

If you see this, I implore you to post a picture from your device without comment

Probably not a good strategy to post this late at night, but I'm very happy that updated slides and complete R notebooks for my ICAME46 and CL2025 talks on Bootstrapping Keywords and Collocations are finally available on OSF. Share and enjoy! osf.io/x82cz/ @cl2025.co.uk #ICAME46

📢I am hiring a Postdoc to work on post-training methods for low-resource languages. Apply by August 15 employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho.... Let's talk at #ACL2025NLP in Vienna if you want to know more about the position and life in Denmark.

If you'd like to run away to the 1660s and have an adventure featuring sapphic romance, sword fights, pirates, werewolves, and vampires, instead of thinking about... [gestures widely], the ebook of THE VENGEANCE is currently on sale for 99p! geni.us/Solarissale Any boosts gratefully received!

The Corpus of Women’s Instructive Texts in English (CoWITE; 1550–1899) has been added to CoRD: varieng.helsinki.fi/CoRD/corpora... #corpusresources

Jacqueline Laws uses types3 in her #CL2025 talk on "Neologizing in American and British spoken English: The case of complex verb formation"! Tuesday at 1:30 pm, session 5.2.

Some years ago, I started to notice the phrase 'going forward' in the sense 'in the future, from now on'. When @tanjasaily.fi and Turo Vartiainen organised a workshop on constructional creativity and innovation and asked me to join, I decided to take a closer look. Here is the result:

📣 New paper with Florent Perek & @jukkasuomela.fi! 📣 Variation and change in the productivity of BE going to V in the Corpus of Historical American English, 1810–2009 doi.org/10.1017/S136... Part of our ELL special issue on "Constructional approaches to creativity and productivity in English" #cxg

The word is out! Next IPrA is in our (Finnish) neck of the woods, in Helsinki 🇫🇮 Pragmaticians, converge!

📢 Tampere University is seeking an Assistant professor, Associate professor or Professor in the field of English linguistics. The closing date for applications is August 18th.

Conference website already up and running: wp.uni-koblenz.de/icame47/ #ICAME46 to #ICAME47

Aatu Liimatta presenting "Do we write what we feel Embodiment of emotions in present-day English" #ICAME46

Github repo for enriched COHA fiction metadata: github.com/suomela/coha... Presentation slides: tinyurl.com/cohagpt #ICAME46 #corpuslinguistics #corpusresources

Kicking off a long afternoon of talks at #ICAME46 with Tanja Säily on the rise of big data in historical corpus linguistics, focusing on how LLMs can help with corpus metadata

Lukas Sönning's beautiful #ICAME46 slides can be found at: osf.io/fr476/ lots of important take-aways for effective (and aesthetic) data visualization!

All the articles of the special issue @mlvarila.bsky.social and I edited, "Early Modern English Textual Cultures Between Manuscript and Print" (Renaissance Studies), are now out in early view! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14774658...

I can confirm that we have seen the first proofs of our chapter on Historical Sociolinguistics, to appear in the first volume of N-CHEL 😊

VUB Doctor Honoris Causa Award Ceremony for four prominent scientists, including Professor Terttu Nevalainen @helsinki.fi www.vub.be/en/event/vub...

Funded PhD studentship of €25,000/year for 4 years plus fees available @tcddublin.bsky.social to work with me on Irish women's life writing from the long 18th century! Please spread the word! @ecfjournal.bsky.social @cecs-york.bsky.social @clhlwr.bsky.social @oxfordlifewriting.bsky.social

Elizabeth Oakes’ doctoral defence of her thesis on the corpus stylistics of 1960s/70s sf of altered consciousness will be live-streamed from the University of @helsinki.fi on Tuesday 3 June at 12 noon (EEST). I will be serving as the opponent. Tune in here: video.helsinki.fi/unitube/live...

📙 'The Meaning of Constructions' is out now! A short book on how meaning works in Construction Grammar - covering semantic, pragmatic & social dimensions. 🔓 Open access for two weeks. Download from: doi.org/10.1017/9781... 🔁 Feel free to share!

ERC Advanced Grants: 2.5 M€ + up to 2 M€ extra for those coming from the US, already available in this funding round that opens next week! erc.europa.eu/news-events/...

Are you a professor or assistant professor level researcher in the US or elsewhere outside of Finland? Looking for new opportunities in an inspiring and well-connected research environment? Finland might be just the place for you. Reach out to Finnish universities to explore what’s possible.

The International Society for the #Linguistics of English #ISLE is launching two new prizes this year: 1) ISLE Teaching Innovation Prize 2) ISLE Outreach Prize Each comes with a small cash prize & other goodies; application date: 30 April 2025. More info at www.isle-linguistics.org/activities/i...

If historical #lexicography and #lexicology is your thing, here's your chance to go to Tallinn in June! The #CFP deadline for #hellex8 has been extended to 28 February. konverentsikeskus.tlu.ee/en/lexis25

VARIENG vastaa! Englannin possessiivimuodot Tämä kysymys on tullut meille Kysy kirjastonhoitajalta -palvelun kautta: Nyt en tiedä saako tällaista kysyä, mutta en ainakaan saanut vastausta Googlelta enkä muutamalta Teko Älyltä. Minun mielestäni englannin kielessä on 3 (siis ei 2) possessiivimuotoa.…

Online seminar, 11 Feb: Philipp Stöckle: Digital Transformations in Historical Dialect #Lexicography – The Case of the #Dictionary of Bavarian Dialects in Austria Everybody welcome! More information on the Helsinki Society for Historical Lexicography website: blogs.helsinki.fi/hellex-socie...

We're hiring a Professor of English Literatures, come join our merry English team in Helsinki! jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Deadline today!

The final version of our data paper on the Corpus of Early English Correspondence Extension Sampler is now out! Freely available (both paper and corpus): doi.org/10.1163/2452... #corpusresources #corpuslinguistics #openaccess

Happy New Year from the VARIENG research unit! Here's a list of last year's publications by Variengers – lots of research on variation, contacts and change in English 😊 #corpuslinguistics www.helsinki.fi/en/researchg...

Call for papers - Corpus Linguistics 2025! Closing date for proposals 17th January 2025. More information here: www.cl2025.co.uk

Me reading my ERC proposal reviews

Read it, loved it – which happens with pretty much everything she writes!

Sad news from the linguistics community: the great sociolinguist William Labov has died at age 97 languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=67399

I'm late to the party, but have y'all heard about @naominovik.bsky.social? I did Scholomance first and that was great, then I loved her fairytale retellings, and now I devoured the Temeraire series – Napoleonic Wars, with dragons! The world-building was exquisite, engaging characters, unputdownable.

I’ve just realized the CFP for the iCame in Vilnius is about to end, so I’ll just go ahead and remind everyone: Abstracts are due 1 December! (I’ve nothing to do with organizing it but I really hope to go📆) icame.info/icame-46-jun...