Tanja Säily

Just a reminder that the last day to send a proposal for a pre-conference workshop at #ICAME48 is Saturday the 31st of October 🎃📝 If you still haven't sent your workshop proposal, this is your chance! More info here www.helsinki.fi/en/conferenc...

Our Varienger of October is Carla Suhr🎉Carla has been a Senior Lecturer in English Philology at UH since 2014. She investigates the construction of texts in early modern England, with a focus on early news and medical discourse. More info on her research here www.helsinki.fi/en/researchg...

Here are the slides of my keynote talk from SSS 2026 in Gothenburg: jukkasuomela.fi/doc/sss-keyn...

You are invited to GenLex, an online lecture series for and by the next generation of (historical) lexicographers! Opening event on 30 October at 6pm CET: blogs.helsinki.fi/hellex-socie... #hellexsoc #lexicography

#ICAME48 We are now also receiving abstract submissions! (deadline: 1 December 2006). More details on this call and on our previous call for pre-conference workshops (deadline: 31 October 2026) here www.helsinki.fi/en/conferenc...

I have just finished reading THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS (2026) by @wiswell.bsky.social, and I want everyone to read it. I love a good dragon shifter romance. This is not that. It's loads funnier, more thought-provoking, cooler world building, ... 1/2

We are hiring!! Indefinite lectureship in Discourse Studies in Linguistics & English Language at Lancaster University. Apply by 4th September @lancslinguistics.bsky.social hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

New PhD position in my group on Digital Forensic Linguistics! 🧑‍💻 If you think that's you, please contact me and/or apply! #linguistics #joboffer #phdPosition #phd https://jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/870a96abc9c1d265d30d96c359a15f0d1c02b97c0

Finnish version: Kaari Utrio Johanna Sinisalo Outi Pakkanen Siiri Enoranta Terhi Tarkiainen

Five living writers that you've read five books by each? Aliette de Bodard, @aliettedebodard.com KJ Charles, @kjcharleswriter.com Naomi Novik, @naominovik.bsky.social Seanan McGuire, @seananmcguire.bsky.social T. Kingfisher, @tkingfisher.com

The #ISLE Outreach Prize is open for submissions (until November 30)! Comes with a cash prize & other goodies. More info at www.isle-linguistics.org/activities/i... #EnglishLinguistics

#ISLE also just opened the call for the Teaching Innovation Prize (for teaching projects/resources/initiatives related to English linguistics). Also comes with a bit of cash and other goodies. Submission deadline: November 30. More info can be found here: www.isle-linguistics.org/activities/i...

@romancingthevote.com Auction: July 1 - July 5. Raising money for voting access, cuz voter suppression is BAD. Link for my Fox Girl Coloring sheet: www.32auctions.com/organization... #Vote #auction #illustration #coloringsheet #kidlitart

Our research group at Aalto University is hiring 3 postdocs + 3 doctoral students to work on distributed quantum algorithms in projects funded by an ERC Advanced Grant and a QuantERA grant. Application deadline: July 31, 2026. Start date: October 2026–October 2027 (negotiable). Apply now!

We are happy to announce that the call for papers for #ICAME48 is now out! 📢📢📢The call for pre-conference workshops is already open, while the call for abstracts will open in October. More info on our website: www.helsinki.fi/en/conferenc...

Slides from our #ICEHL23 presentation on "Improving part-of-speech annotation for socially diverse historical corpora": tanjasaily.fi/talks/icehl2... #corpuslinguistics #postagging

New International Construction Grammar Association (ICGA)! icgaonline.wpcomstaging.com announced at ICCG14 thanks to @adelegoldberg.bsky.social Sign up forms.gle/gXYDKC6xavkU... @alexbergs.bsky.social H Boas M Fried, @stefanhartmann.bsky.social Th Hoffmann F Masini B Nir @remivantrijp.bsky.social

Researchers using corpus-based approaches to the study of English: Welcome to the ICAME48 conference in Helsinki in May 2027! Follow our BlueSky account @icame48.bsky.social and our website (see the link in comments) for updates. The CfP will soon be published. #ICAME48

Helsinki Society for Historical #Lexicography online lecture, 4 June: "Bringing slang into the academy: Issues in the making of the #Dictionary of Jamaican Slang" by Dr Joseph T. Farquharson and Dr Byron M. Jones (The University of the West Indies, Mona) blogs.helsinki.fi/hellex-socie... #hellexsoc

Slides for our #ICAME47 presentation on "Improving automated #transcription to compile large and diverse historical corpora": tanjasaily.fi/talks/icame4... #corpuslinguistics #htr

#ICAME48 is going to be in Helsinki May 17-22, 2027

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Helsinki Society for Historical #Lexicography online lecture, 4 June: "Bringing slang into the academy: Issues in the making of the #Dictionary of Jamaican Slang" by Dr Joseph T. Farquharson and Dr Byron M. Jones (The University of the West Indies, Mona) blogs.helsinki.fi/hellex-socie... #hellexsoc

The MetaLing Corpus Project has been added to CoRD: varieng.helsinki.fi/CoRD/corpora... #corpusresources

Great new Cambridge Element out: www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Helsinki DH Seminar continues this Thursday with Yu Wu (UH) on "Beyond Text Reuse in 18th-century Reception: Evaluating Semantic Search through the Case of Locke”. For online participation and where to find us at Metsätalo, please visit: www.helsinki.fi/en/digital-h... All welcome!

Digitaalinen itsenäisyys – Suomen seuraava kohtalonkysymys 🇫🇮 Suomi on riippuvainen yhdysvaltalaisista teknologiajäteistä. Riippuvuus ei lähitulevaisuudessa vähenny vaan syvenee. #DigitaalinenItsenäisyys #Suomi #Kansalaisaloite 1/

The SKY's graduate award 2025 is awarded to MA Jimena Jiménez Real from the University of Helsinki. The title of her thesis is Who led the semantic extension of the way-construction?: A corpus-based study of variation and change in the way construction in the 17th-19th centuries. Congratulations! ✨

Hey! I'm looking for a CS/DH post-doc to work on building a large corpus of news broadcasts in Finnish, Finland Swedish, Sámi & Finnish Sign Language: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki... #multimodality #digitalhumanities

Out now! Rutten's Historical Sociolinguistics | With detailed explanations of core concepts, this is the first introduction to historical sociolinguistics based on multiple languages. Find out more: ☑️ https://cup.org/4jg540r

This beautiful song is about the etymology of joulu, jul or yule. It’s in Finnish worth to listen even without understanding the lyrics. Joulu (sana germaanin) Joulu (the word of German) The music group is called Kärhämä.

New volume "Sociolinguistic Approaches to Lexical Variation in English", edited by Rhys Sandow & Natalie Braber, is out now. Great to work with @nelepoldvere.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy on "Lexico-grammatical variation in spoken British English corpora" using LLC-2 www.routledge.com/Sociolinguis...

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