Research

Studies and publications with evidence used from the Helsinki Corpus of British English Dialects.

Alanko, Maarit. 2000. "Who Does Ta Think Tha's Thouing? Second Person Pronouns in the Yorkshire West Riding Dialect." Pro Gradu Thesis. University of Helsinki. (NOTE. This study is based on the SED Yorkshire material, which wasn't included in the HD corpus in its present state.)

Aulanko, Reijo & Terttu Nevalainen. 1995. "Acoustic Phonetics in Sociolinguistics and Dialectology: the variation of English vowels in spontaneous speech." In Proceedings of the XIIIth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, ICPhS 95, Stockholm, Sweden 13-19 August, 1995, Kjell Elenius & Peter Branderud (eds). Stockholm: KTH & Stockholm University. 464-467.

Ihalainen, Ossi. 1976. "Periphrastic DO in affirmative sentences in the dialect of east Somerset." In Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 77/4. 608-622.

Ihalainen, Ossi. 1980. "Relative clauses in the dialect of Somerset." In Neuphilologische Mitteilungen vol.81/2. 187-196.

Ihalainen, Ossi. 1981. "A note on eliciting data in dialectology: the case of periphrastic do." In Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 82/1. 25-27.

Ihalainen, Ossi. 1982. "On the notion 'possible grammatical change': a look at a perfectly good change that did not quite make it." In Studia Anglica Posnaniensia 15. 3-11.

Ihalainen, Ossi. 1985a. "He took the bottle and put 'n in his pocket: the object pronoun IT in present-day Somerset." In Wolfgang Viereck (ed.) Focus on: England and Wales. (Varieties of English around the World GS 4.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins.153-161.

Ihalainen, Ossi. 1985b. "Synchronic variation and linguistic change: evidence from British English dialects." In Papers from the 4th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics in Amsterdam, April 10-13, 1985. Ed. by Roger Eaton et al. (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 41). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins B.V. 61-72.

Ihalainen, Ossi. 1986. "An inquiry into the nature of mixed grammars: two cases of grammatical variation in dialectal British English." In Linguistics across Historical and Geographical Boundaries Vol. 1: Linguistic Theory and Historical Linguistics. Dieter Kastovsky and Aleksander Szwedek (eds). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 371-379.

Ihalainen, Ossi. 1987. "Towards a grammar of the Somerset dialect." In Leena Kahlas-Tarkka (ed.) Neophilologica Fennica. (Mémoires de la Société Néophilologique de Helsinki. 45.) Helsinki: Société Néophilologique. 71-86.

Ihalainen, Ossi. 1988a. "Creating linguistic databases from machine-readable dialect texts." In Methods in Dialectology. Alan R. Thomas (ed.) Clevedon: Multilingual Matters. 569-584.

Ihalainen, Ossi. 1988b. "Working with dialectal material stored in a dBase file." In Corpus Linguistics, Hard and Soft. Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on English Languge Research on Computerized Corpora. Merja Kytö, Ossi Ihalainen and Matti Rissanen (eds). Amsterdam: Rodopi. 137-144.

Ihalainen, Ossi. 1990a. "A source data for the study of English dialect syntax: the Helsinki Corpus." In Jan Aarts & Willen Meijs (eds) Theory and Practice in Corpus Linguistics. Amsterdam: Rodopi. 83-103.

Ihalainen, Ossi. 1990b. "Methodological preliminaries to the study of linguistic change in dialectal English: evaluating the grammars of Barnes and Elworthy as sources of linguistic evidence." In Papers from the 5th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics. Sylvia Adamson, Vivien A. Law, Nigel Vincent and Susan Wright (eds). (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 65). Amsterdam: Benjamins. 189-204.

Ihalainen, Ossi. 1990c. "A source of data for the study of English dialect syntax: the Helsinki Corpus." In Theory and Practice in Corpus Linguistics. Jan Aarts and Willem Meijs (eds). Amsterdam: Rodopi. 83-103.

Ihalainen, Ossi. 1991a. "On grammatical diffusion in Somerset folk speech." In Dialects of English: Studies in Grammatical Variation. Peter Trudgill and J.K. Chambers (eds). London: Longman. 104-119.

Ihalainen, Ossi. 1991b. "Periphrastic DO in affirmative sentences in the dialect of East Somerset." In Dialects of English: Studies in Grammatical Variation. Peter Trudgill and J.K. Chambers (eds). London: Longman. 148-160. [Revised and abbreviated reprint of Ihalainen, 1976.]

Ihalainen, Ossi. 1991c. "A point of verb syntax in south-western British English: an analysis of a dialect continuum." In English Corpus Linguistics: Studies in Honour of Jan Svartvik. Karin Aijmer and Bength Altenberg (eds). London: Longman. 290-302.

Ihalainen, Ossi. 1991d. "The grammatical subject in educated and dialectal English: comparing the London-Lund Corpus and the Helsinki Corpus of Modern English Dialects." In English Computer Corpora. Selected Papers and Research Guide. Stig Johansson and Anna-Brita Stenström (eds). (Topics in English Linguistics 3). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 201-214.

Ihalainen, Ossi. 1993. "Tagging the Helsinki Corpus of English Dialects by using Lancaster University's CLAWS program." In ZDL Beiheft 74: Verhandlungen des Internationalen Dialektologenkongresses Bamberg 1990. Band 1. Wolfgang Viereck (ed.) Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag. 188-202.

Ihalainen, Ossi. 1994. "The dialects of England since 1776." In The Cambridge History of the English Language. Volume V: English Language in Britain and Overseas. Origins and Development. Robert Burchfield (ed.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 197-274.

Ihalainen, Ossi, Merja Kytö and Matti Rissanen. 1987. "The Helsinki Corpus of English Texts: Diachronic and Dialectal. Report on Work in Progress." In Meijs (ed.) 21-32.

Kerman, Riitta. 1991. "Essex and Lancashire English: A Comparison." Pro Gradu Thesis. University of Helsinki.

Klemola, Juhani. 1988. "Some Features of the Dialect of West Somerset." Pro Gradu Thesis. University of Helsinki.

Laine, Katri. 1989. "Three Speakers of the Dialect of Somerset: A Grammatical Comparison." Pro Gradu Thesis. University of Helsinki.

Nevalainen, Terttu & Reijo Aulanko. 1996. "Stressed Vowels in East Somerset: an Acoustic-Phonetic Case Study." In Speech Past and Present: Studies in English Dialectology in Memory of Ossi Ihalainen (Bamberger Beiträge zur Englischen Sprachwissenschaft 38), Juhani Klemola, Merja Kytö and Matti Rissanen (eds). Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. 236-264.

Ojanen (Vasko), Anna-Liisa. 1982. "A Syntax of the Cambridgeshire Dialect." Lic. Thesis. University of Helsinki.

Ojanen (Vasko), Anna-Liisa. 1985. "Use and non-use of prepositions in spatial expressions in the dialect of Cambridgeshire". In Focus on: England and Wales. Wolfgang Viereck (ed.) (Varieties of English around the World G4.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 179-212.

Peitsara (Kekäläinen), Kirsti. 1985a. "Relative clauses in the dialect of Suffolk." In Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 3/1985. 353-357.

Peitsara, Kirsti. 1985b. "On the uses of the variants for AND". In Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 4/1985. 539-543.

Peitsara, Kirsti. 1987. "On the uses of THIS/THESE HERE in the dialect of Suffolk." In Leena Kahlas-Tarkka (ed.) Neophilologica Fennica. (Mémoires de la Société Néophilologique de Helsinki. 45.) Helsinki: Société Néophilologique. 351-361.

Peitsara, Kirsti. 1988. "On existential sentences in the dialect of Suffolk". In Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 1/1988. 72-99.

Peitsara, Kirsti. 1996. "Studies on the structure of the Suffolk dialect". In Juhani Klemola, Merja Kytö & Matti Rissanen (eds) Speech Past and Present. Studies in English Dialectology in Memory of Ossi Ihalainen. (Bamberger Beiträge zur Englischen Sprachwissenschaft 38.) Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. 284-307.

Peitsara, Kirsti. 2000. "The prepositions ON and OF in partitive and temporal constructions in British English dialects". In Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 101: 2. 323-332.

Peitsara, Kirsti. 2002a. "Relativizers in the Suffolk dialect". In Patricia Poussa & Magnus Lundberg (eds) Relativization on the North Sea Littoral. Lincom. 167-180.

Peitsara, Kirsti. 2002b. "Verbal -S in Devonshire - the Helsinki Dialect Corpus evidence". In Helena Raumolin-Brunberg, Minna Nevala & Matti Rissanen (eds) Variation past and present. VARIENG studies on English for Terttu Nevalainen. (Mémoires de la Société Néophilologique de Helsinki 61.) Helsinki: Société Néophilologique. 211-230.

Peitsara, Kirsti. 2004a. "Rikkooko murteenpuhuja kieltä?" In T. Nevalainen, M. Rissanen & I. Taavitsainen (eds) Englannin aika. Elävän kielen kartoitusta. Helsinki: WSOY. 66-77.

Peitsara, Kirsti. 2004b. "Variants of contraction: The case of it's and 'tis". In ICAME JOURNAL 28. 77-94.

Peitsara, Kirsti. 2006a. "Somerset relativizers revisited." In T. Nevalainen, J. Klemola & M. Laitinen (eds) Diachrony, Dialectology, and Typological Linguistics. Proceedings from DIATYPE Symposium. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 269-280.

Peitsara, Kirsti. 2006b. "Indirect address in British English dialects". In Dialogic Language Use, Dimensions du Dialogisme, Dialogischer Sprachgebrauch. I. Taavitsainen, J. Härmä & J. Korhonen (eds). (Mémoires de la Société Néophilologique de Helsinki LXVI). Helsinki: Société Néophilologique. 195-208.

Peitsara, Kirsti. 2006c. "MAN-Compounds in English". In Selected Proceedings of the 2005 Symposium on New Approaches in English Historical Lexis (HEL-LEX). R. W. McConchie et al. (eds). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. 113-122.

Peitsara, Kirsti and Anna-Liisa Vasko. 2002. "The Helsinki Dialect Corpus: Characteristics of speech and aspects of variation". In Helsinki English Studies 2. http://blogs.helsinki.fi/hes-eng/volumes/volume-2-corpora-in-todays-english-studies/

Vasko (Ojanen), Anna-Liisa. 2005. Up Cambridge. Prepositional locative expressions in dialect speech: a corpus-based study of the Cambridgeshire dialect. (Mémoires de la Société Néophilologique de Helsinki LXV). Helsinki: Société Néophilologique.