Category Archives: Project news

Minna Nevala, Minna Palander-Collin and Anni Sairio participated in the ICAME 34 conference in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, in May. Or, Anni was not physically there, but we all contributed to the poster on “LINGUISTIC CHANGE in its social contexts … Continue reading →

Our research assistants have now added a substantial number of advertisements to a corpus of advertisements we are compiling in the DYLAPS project. The corpus now contains over 900 adds from the Times, the Morning Chronicle and the Morning Post … Continue reading →

The Dynamics of Change in Language Practices and Social Meaning 1700-1900 (DYLAPS) project received 595 310 euros for four years (01.09.2012 – 31.08.2016) from the Academy of Finland.

The Language and Identity project has reached one of its goals – the original  spelling of early English letters in the Corpus of Early English Correspondence has been normalized. Normalizing or standardizing idiosyncratic spelling improves the accuracy of automatic language … Continue reading →

The Dynamics of Change in Language Practices and Social Meaning 1700–1900 (DYLAPS) project has recently been launched by Minna Palander-Collin, Minna Nevala and Anni Sairio. The project studies how changes in language practices and social factors are interrelated and how … Continue reading →