Ville Marttila

MA, Postgraduate Researcher
Room 453, Vironkatu 1
Phone +358 (0)9 191 23519
E-mail: ville.marttila(at)helsinki.fi

Research Interests

My current research interests include culinary recipes as a diachronic genre, editing of historical texts, creation of digital editions for corpus linguistics, and the pragmatically oriented study of historical texts, focusing especially on their intended use and audience.

My MA thesis, completed in late 2006, was a contextualised diplomatic edition of an early 15th century culinary recipe collection found in Durham University Library MS Cosin V.III.11. I am currently working on my PhD thesis, which will be a linguistically oriented electronic edition of a family of six Late Medieval culinary recipe collections commonly known as Potage Dyvers.

The electronic edition, which will form the basis of my thesis and enable a thorough analysis of the texts using corpus methodology, is being prepared as a part of the DECL project, which aims at producing a practical framework for producing electronic editions of historical texts.

In addition to my own PhD work, I also participate in the collection of The Corpus of Early English Medical Writing 1375-1800 as a member of the Scientific Thought Styles project.

Teaching:

In the Autumn Term of 2009, I am teaching Introduction to manuscript studies, together with Samuli Kaislaniemi and Alpo Honkapohja, at the department of English.

Publications:

Forthcoming 2010. Pahta Päivi, Turo Hiltunen, Ville Marttila, Maura Ratia, Carla Suhr, and Jukka Tyrkkö. "Communicating Galen's Methodus medendi in Middle and Early Modern English". In Pahta, Päivi and Andreas H. Jucker (eds.) Communicating Early English Manuscripts. (Studies in English Language.) Cambridge: CUP.

2009. ”Mincing Words: A Diachronic View on English Cutting Verbs&rdquo. In Selected Proceedings of the 2008 Symposium on New Approaches in English Historical Lexis (HEL-LEX 2) ed. by R. W. McConchie, Alpo Honkapohja & Jukka Tyrkkö. Cascadilla Proceedings Project, Somerville, MA. Abstract. Full version.

2009b. Honkapohja, Alpo; Samuli Kaislaniemi and Ville Marttila. ”Digital editions for Corpus Linguistics: Representing manuscript reality in electronic corpora” in Corpora: Pragmatics and Discourse. Papers from the 29th International Conference on English Language Research on Computerized Corpora (ICAME 29). Andreas H. Jucker, Daniel Schreier ja Marianne Hundt (ed.). Ascona, Switzerland, 14-18 May 2008. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi. Preprint version.