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Tanja Säily
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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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If you see this, I implore you to post a picture from your device without comment
A large tardigrade puppet hanging from the ceiling
July 18, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Surprising: love is associated with teeth in the BNC!
Human figures showing the embodiment of love in the BNC and self reports, as well as individual words
June 21, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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Aatu Liimatta presenting "Do we write what we feel Embodiment of emotions in present-day English" #ICAME46
Aatu and a slide showing a human figure on which the emotion locations will be projected
June 21, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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The thesis is available at: hdl.handle.net/10138/595923
Cover by Elizabeth Oakes: somewhat psychedelic illustrated circles, with the title of the thesis and the name of the author in blue boxes.
June 3, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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Post you from a different era.

Circa 1985
A girl playing a video game. Glasses, long hair, fancy joystick, sitting on the arm of a sofa.
November 20, 2024 at 4:39 PM
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Hybrid seminar, 29 Nov:

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-socie...

#hellexsoc #lexicography #dictionaries
An illustration of the dictionary craze in Enlightenment Europe on the left, with the title of the talk and some information on Professor Holmberg (Stockholm University) on the right
November 15, 2024 at 9:42 PM
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Here’s my Google Scholar word cloud (from shiny.rcg.sfu.ca/u/rdmorin/sc...) — how does yours look?
Cloud of words in various colors and sizes based on the Google Scholar profile for Tanja Säily. Some of the largest words include english corpus early variation historical change data sociolinguistic letters linguistics productivity correspondence exploring frequencies method new extension interactive text across corpora diachronic history language linguistic tagged visualization words -ity analysing
February 5, 2024 at 2:28 PM
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Beer in Sheffield with helpfully labelled glasses.
Beer Beer Beer Beer
January 8, 2024 at 2:29 PM
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The study of derivational productivity has for a long time concentrated on structural constraints and, since the 1990s, variation across genres.
November 8, 2023 at 7:45 AM