Volume 2 Corpora in Today’s English Studies

The Electronic Journal of the Department of English
at the University of Helsinki

ISSN 1457-9960

Volume2, 2002

Corpora in Today’s English Studies

Edited by Arja Nurmi

Volume 2 Corpora in Today’s English Studies

• Introduction – Arja Nurmi
• Inalienable possession in Finnish and English: The use of possessive pronouns/suffixes with nouns designating parts of the body – W. Robert Cooper
• The Helsinki Dialect Corpus: Characteristics of speech and aspects of variation – Kirsti Peitsara and Anna-Liisa Vasko
• “One thing I’d like to clarify…”. Observations of academic speaking – Anna Mauranen
• Speaking to the masses: Orality and literacy in six Early Modern English texts on witchcraft – Carla Suhr
• The gender role of Queen Elizabeth I as reflected by her language – Anni Vuorinen
• Extending the Corpus of Early English Correspondence to the 18th century – Mikko Laitinen
• Notes on Contributors

Issue converted to pdf-format 10 March 2011 by Arja Nurmi. Any updates are marked as such in the individual files.