Slides from our #ICAME45 talk, "The development of -body/-one indefinites in eighteenth-century British publishing networks": tanjasaily.fi/talks/icame45_… with Aatu Liimatta and Enes Yılandiloğlu #corpuslinguistics

What are the best practices for asking GPT4 to annotate 10000 lines of CSV data? I'm planning to do something like split in partially-overlapping chunks of ≈ 50 lines, and ask GPT4-32k to annotate each chunk (maybe also do each chunk twice to get more confidence) …

Hybrid seminar, 24 Sept: Jaakko Raunamaa on Pre-Christian Finnic personal names. More information: blogs.helsinki.fi/hellex-society… #hellexsoc

I'm pleased to announce the release of version 1 of "idiolect", my new package to carry out Forensic Authorship Analysis using R. The website of the package (andreanini.github.io/idiolect/index…) contains a Get Started page with a brief tutorial.

Check out the next ISLE Online Expert Panel "Perspectives on Grammatical Change" Wednesday, September 18, 5pm (CEST), with Marianne Hundt, Terttu Nevalainen, and Joel Wallenberg! Details at isle-linguistics.org/activities/out… ISLE #EnglishLinguistics Marianne Hundt Claire Childs

University of Jyväskylä is looking for two university teachers of English (a permanent position and a one-year fixed-term position). Deadline for applications is October 9. Permanent position: ats.talentadore.com/apply/universi…

Calls: 8th Conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English: Call for Papers: We are delighted to announce that the University of Santiago de Compostela will host ISLE8 between 1 and 4 September 2025, with the conference theme… dlvr.it/TDVbvw

Niin, koskas saadaan Kaisaniemen puiston valaistus ja reitit kuntoon Kaupunkiympäristö?

Cfp dl extended to 28.10., check it out …mulaiclanguagehistorical.blogspot.com/p/call-for-abs…

Big moment: Just out: Crossing boundaries through Corpora Thanks a lot to the wonderful authors 🙌🍾🥳

new paper from Tanja Säily and Turo Vartiainen "Engaging with bad (meta)data in historical corpus linguistics" feels like a must read for the corpora folk benjamins.com/catalog/scl.11…

New paper with Turo Vartiainen! The working title was "Life is hard when you're a historical corpus linguist" 😄 Engaging with bad (meta)data in historical #corpuslinguistics doi.org/10.1075/scl.11… #openaccess version: hdl.handle.net/10138/587373

New paper with Martin Hilpert & Jukka Suomela! New approaches to investigating change in derivational productivity: Gender and internal factors in the development of ‑ity and ‑ness, 1600–1800 doi.org/10.1075/scl.11… #openaccess version: hdl.handle.net/10138/587305 #cxg #sociolx

Tomorrow Friday 15 Nov at 1PM: Mei Yang's doctoral defence "Intra-textual, paradigmatic, and disciplinary variation in research articles" University of Helsinki Main Building, Karolina Eskelin (U3032), Fabianinkatu 33. Follow online here: video.helsinki.fi/unitube/live-s…

Hybrid seminar, 29 November: Linn Holmberg: The #Dictionary Craze in #Enlightenment Europe, 1665–1789 Everybody welcome! More information on the website of the Helsinki Society for Historical Lexicography: blogs.helsinki.fi/hellex-society… #hellexsoc #lexicography #dictionaries

An interesting new PhD thesis by David Trye on visualizing categorical data in #corpuslinguistics: hdl.handle.net/10289/17049

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