Tanja Säily
@tanjasaily.fi
Associate Professor in English Language, University of Helsinki. Corpus linguistics, digital humanities, historical sociolinguistics, linguistic productivity, English lexis & morphology. Also into tea, papercraft, speculative fiction. https://tanjasaily.fi
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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!
The puck drops at 13:15 Finnish time!
HelsinkiUniTube Live Stream
video.helsinki.fi
November 21, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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!
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 🥺
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 🥺
November 20, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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 🥺
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 🥺
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Great news! This is out: Opening the black box of EEBO academic.oup.com/dsh/advance-...
Opening the black box of EEBO
Abstract. Digital archives that cover extended historical periods can create a misleading impression of comprehensiveness while in truth providing access t
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November 9, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Great news! This is out: Opening the black box of EEBO academic.oup.com/dsh/advance-...
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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/
One more chance to secure your spot in Koblenz 😃
wp.uni-koblenz.de/icame47/cfp/
CFP -
Call for Papers | Call for Workshops Below you’ll find the Call for Papers and Call for Workshops, along with Word templates for both. Abstracts for Full Papers, Work-in-Progress Reports, Software Dem...
wp.uni-koblenz.de
November 4, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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/
One more chance to secure your spot in Koblenz 😃
wp.uni-koblenz.de/icame47/cfp/
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Tiesittekö, että "kuningatar" on 1800-luvulla muodostettu sana? Joten miten viitattiinkaan suomessa kuningattariin joskus 1600-luvulla…
kaino.kotus.fi/vks/?p=as-ar...
kaino.kotus.fi/vks/?p=as-ar...
kaino.kotus.fi
October 18, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Tiesittekö, että "kuningatar" on 1800-luvulla muodostettu sana? Joten miten viitattiinkaan suomessa kuningattariin joskus 1600-luvulla…
kaino.kotus.fi/vks/?p=as-ar...
kaino.kotus.fi/vks/?p=as-ar...
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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
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
Speech Acts in English: Corpus Insights from Past to Present
In recent decades, speech act use in English has received considerable attention, producing a substantial body of research drawing on both historical and ...
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September 19, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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
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
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Week 1 on #CorpusMOOC: key techniques of data analysis #concordance #frequency
👉 Join us today for free!
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👉 Join us today for free!
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September 15, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Week 1 on #CorpusMOOC: key techniques of data analysis #concordance #frequency
👉 Join us today for free!
edx.org/learn/social...
👉 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
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
Events | Suomen historiallisen leksikografian seura ry
blogs.helsinki.fi
September 11, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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
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
#cxg
English Language & Linguistics: Volume 29 - Constructional approaches to creativity and productivity in English | Cambridge Core
Cambridge Core - English Language & Linguistics - Volume 29 - Constructional approaches to creativity and productivity in English
www.cambridge.org
September 1, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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
#cxg
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"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...
Rehtori Sari Lindblom: “Satojen miljoonien yliopistoleikkauksilla Suomi uppoaisi vain syvemmälle suohon” | Helsingin yliopisto
Valtiovarainministeriön ehdotus valtion vuoden 2026 budjetiksi julkaistiin 6. elokuuta. Esitys sisältää mittavia, satojen miljoonien leikkauksia yliopistojen, tutkimuksen ja innovaatioiden rahoituksee...
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August 7, 2025 at 10:37 AM
"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...
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Five days left to apply! TT or full professorship in English linguistics here in Tampere, Finland #AcademicJobs
Don’t forget to send in your application before the summer hols! Deadline August 18
tuni.rekrytointi.com/paikat/?o=A_...
Open rank professorship in Tampere, English linguistics. We will be working side by side
tuni.rekrytointi.com/paikat/?o=A_...
Open rank professorship in Tampere, English linguistics. We will be working side by side
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August 13, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Five days left to apply! TT or full professorship in English linguistics here in Tampere, Finland #AcademicJobs
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Recommended reading on neural vs. symbolic AI: open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...
How o3 and Grok 4 Accidentally Vindicated Neurosymbolic AI
Neurosymbolic AI is quietly winning. Here’s what that means – and why it took so long
open.substack.com
July 20, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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
July 18, 2025 at 12:26 PM
If you see this, I implore you to post a picture from your device without comment
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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
Bootstrapping keywords and collocations
Code, data, and slides from conference presentations on bootstrapping keywords and collocations in R
Hosted on the Open Science Framework
osf.io
July 11, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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
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📢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.
Let's talk at #ACL2025NLP in Vienna if you want to know more about the position and life in Denmark.
Postdoc in Natural Language Processing
employment.ku.dk
July 7, 2025 at 12:47 PM
📢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.
Let's talk at #ACL2025NLP in Vienna if you want to know more about the position and life in Denmark.
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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!
July 4, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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
varieng.helsinki.fi/CoRD/corpora...
#corpusresources
CoRD | Corpus of Women's Instructive Texts in English
varieng.helsinki.fi
July 3, 2025 at 6:17 PM
The Corpus of Women’s Instructive Texts in English (CoWITE; 1550–1899) has been added to CoRD:
varieng.helsinki.fi/CoRD/corpora...
#corpusresources
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.
We also introduce the new types3 tool for analysing textual diversity, richness, and productivity in text corpora and other data sets: github.com/suomela/type...
#corpuslinguistics
#corpuslinguistics
GitHub - suomela/types3: types3: Type accumulation curves
types3: Type accumulation curves. Contribute to suomela/types3 development by creating an account on GitHub.
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June 30, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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.
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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:
Going forward as an adverb | English Language & Linguistics | Cambridge Core
Going forward as an adverb
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June 24, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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
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
Variation and change in the productivity of be going to V in the Corpus of Historical American English, 1810–2009 | English Language & Linguistics | Cambridge Core
Variation and change in the productivity of be going to V in the Corpus of Historical American English, 1810–2009
doi.org
June 25, 2025 at 1:16 PM
📣 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
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
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The word is out! Next IPrA is in our (Finnish) neck of the woods, in Helsinki 🇫🇮 Pragmaticians, converge!
June 25, 2025 at 4:23 AM
The word is out! Next IPrA is in our (Finnish) neck of the woods, in Helsinki 🇫🇮 Pragmaticians, converge!
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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.
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.
Tenure track position in English linguistics (Assistant Professor, Associate Professor or Professor) / tenure track -tehtävä, englannin kielen tutkimus (Apulaisprofessori tai Professori)
tuni.rekrytointi.com
June 23, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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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.
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.
Github repo for enriched COHA fiction metadata: github.com/suomela/coha...
Presentation slides: tinyurl.com/cohagpt
#ICAME46 #corpuslinguistics #corpusresources
Presentation slides: tinyurl.com/cohagpt
#ICAME46 #corpuslinguistics #corpusresources
June 21, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Github repo for enriched COHA fiction metadata: github.com/suomela/coha...
Presentation slides: tinyurl.com/cohagpt
#ICAME46 #corpuslinguistics #corpusresources
Presentation slides: tinyurl.com/cohagpt
#ICAME46 #corpuslinguistics #corpusresources