Teo Juvonen

MA, Postgraduate Researcher
Room 455, Vironkatu 1
Phone +358 (0)9 191 22116
E-mail: teo.juvonen(at)helsinki.fi

Research Interests

My PhD thesis deals with the morphosyntactics of English possessive constructions in Late Middle and Early Modern English. I use a range of electronic corpora to study the effects of genre, dialect and a number of linguistic factors on the variation and change in the possessive constructions. The aim of my research is to explain the use and changes in these constructions based on both language internal factors and external factors.

The cultural, social and material history of Early Modern Britain is also of interest to me, particularly that of the texts that I use. I am also fascinated by the concepts of ownership and possession and how they were understood in this period and how they appear in the texts.

Publications

Juvonen, Teo (2009). "Everyday possessions: Family and identity in the correspondence of John Paston II." In The Language of Daily Life in England (1400-1800), ed. by Arja Nurmi, Minna Nevala and Minna Palander-Collin. (Pragmatics and Beyond New Series 183.) Amsterdam: Benjamins. 253-277.