Anneli Meurman-Solin

PhD, Docent
Room C518, P.O. Box 24 (Unionkatu 40)
Telephone +358 (0)9 191 23522
E-mail: anneli.meurman-solin(at)helsinki.fi

Research Interests

Fields of interest

English historical linguistics
Corpus linguistics
Linguistic computing
Syntax and information structure
Linguistic typology
Historical dialectology
Manuscript studies

In 2012 my research focuses on the expansion of the manuscript-based Corpus of Scottish Correspondence (CSC), 1500-1730. The manual of the annotated part of the CSC is available online http://www.eng.helsinki.fi/varieng/csc/manual (see also the Corpus Resource Database http://www.helsinki.fi/varieng/CoRD/corpora/CSC/index.html). I am also involved in preparing an e-volume on the principles and practices of digital editing by writing chapters on the taxonomisation of features of visual prosody in historical manuscripts. My other research interests at the moment are related to interfaces between diachronic syntax, information structure, and the evolution of grammars of prose, for example with reference to the history of connectives and the positioning and functions of nominalisations (see Meurman-Solin 2011, 2012, and the paper “The discourse basis for lexical categories revisited: Nominalisation in epistolary prose”). A major achievement this year is the publication of the volume Information Structure and Syntactic Change in the History of English in the new series Oxford Studies in the History of English by Oxford University Press.

Publications

Meurman-Solin, Anneli, María José López-Couso & Bettelou Los (eds.) (2012). Information Structure and Syntactic Change in the History of English (Oxford Studies in the History of English, 2). New York: Oxford University Press.

Meurman-Solin, Anneli (2012). The connectives and, for, but, and only as clause and discourse type indicators in 16th- and 17th-century epistolary prose. Information Structure and Syntactic Change in the History of English, ed. by Anneli Meurman-Solin, María José López-Couso & Bettelou Los (Oxford Studies in the History of English, 2), 164–196. New York: Oxford University Press.

Meurman-Solin, Anneli (2012). Historical Dialectology: Space as a Variable in the Reconstruction of Regional Dialects. Handbook of Historical Sociolinguistics, ed. by Juan Manuel Hernández-Campoy & Juan Camilo Conde-Silvestre, 465–479. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.

Meurman-Solin, Anneli (forthcoming in 2012). Early Modern English Dialects. Historical Linguistics of English: An International Handbook, ed. by Alexander Bergs & Laurel J. Brinton, 668–685. Berlin: de Gruyter Mouton.

Meurman-Solin, Anneli (forthcoming in 2012). Visual prosody in manuscript letters in the study of syntax and discourse. Principles and Practices for the Digital Editing and Annotation of Diachronic Data (Studies in Variation, Contacts and Change in English), ed. by Ville Marttila, Anneli Meurman-Solin, Carla Suhr & Jukka Tyrkkö. Helsinki: VARIENG.

Meurman-Solin, Anneli (forthcoming in 2012). Features of layout in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Scottish letters. Principles and Practices for the Digital Editing and Annotation of Diachronic Data (Studies in Variation, Contacts and Change in English), ed. by Ville Marttila, Anneli Meurman-Solin, Carla Suhr & Jukka Tyrkkö. Helsinki: VARIENG.

Meurman-Solin, Anneli (forthcoming in 2012). Taxonomisation of features of visual prosody. Principles and Practices for the Digital Editing and Annotation of Diachronic Data (Studies in Variation, Contacts and Change in English), ed. by Ville Marttila, Anneli Meurman-Solin, Carla Suhr & Jukka Tyrkkö. Helsinki: VARIENG.

Marttila, Ville, Anneli Meurman-Solin, Carla Suhr & Jukka Tyrkkö (eds.) (forthcoming in 2012). Principles and Practices for the Digital Editing and Annotation of Diachronic Data (Studies in Variation, Contacts and Change in English). Helsinki: VARIENG.

Meurman-Solin, Anneli & Ursula Lenker (eds.) (2011). Connectives in Synchrony and Diachrony in European Languages (Studies in Variation, Contacts and Change in English, 8). Helsinki: VARIENG.
http://www.helsinki.fi/varieng/journal/volumes/08/

Meurman-Solin, Anneli (2011). Utterance-initial connective elements in early Scottish epistolary prose. Connectives in Synchrony and Diachrony in European Languages, ed. by Anneli
Meurman-Solin & Ursula Lenker (Studies in Variation, Contacts and Change in English, 8.) Helsinki: VARIENG.
http://www.helsinki.fi/varieng/journal/volumes/08/meurman-solin/

Meurman-Solin, Anneli (2011). The discourse basis for lexical categories revisited: Nominalisation in epistolary prose. A paper read at the 1st Conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English, Freiburg, Germany, 2008.

2007a. Ursula Lenker and Anneli Meurman-Solin (eds) Connectives in the History of English (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 283). Amsterdam: Benjamins.

2007b. ‘Relatives as sentence-level connectives’ in Ursula Lenker and Anneli Meurman-Solin (eds) Connectives in the History of English (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 283). Amsterdam: Benjamins, 255-287.

2007c. ‘Introduction’ in Ursula Lenker and Anneli Meurman-Solin (eds) Connectives in the History of English (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 283). Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1-10.

2007d. Anneli Meurman-Solin and Arja Nurmi (eds) Annotating variation and change ( Studies in Variation, Contacts and Change in English, 1). University of Helsinki: Department of English.

2007e. ‘Annotating variational space over time’ in Anneli Meurman-Solin and Arja Nurmi (eds) Annotating variation and change ( Studies in Variation, Contacts and Change in English, 1). University of Helsinki: Department of English.

2007f. Corpus of Scottish Correspondence, 1500-1730. An online manuscript-based tagged corpus, with an introduction and manual, auxiliary databases and software for data retrieval and presentation. University of Helsinki : Department of English.

2007g. ‘The Manuscript-Based Diachronic Corpus of Scottish Correspondence’ in Joan C. Beal, Karen P. Corrigan and Hermann L. Moisl (eds) Creating and Digitizing Language Corpora, vol. 2: Diachronic Databases. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 127-147.

2006. Meurman-Solin, Anneli and Päivi Pahta ‘Circumstantial adverbials in discourse: a synchronic and a diachronic perspective’ in Antoinette Renouf and Andrew Kehoe (eds), The Changing Face of Corpus Linguistics (Proceedings of the 24 th International Conference of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English). Amsterdam and Atlanta, GA: Rodopi, 117-141.

2005a. ‘ Women’s Scots: Gender-Based Variation in Renaissance Letters’ in Sally Mapstone (ed.) Older Scots Literature, Edinburgh: John Donald Publishers, 424-40.

2005b. Meurman-Solin, Anneli and Ilkka Pyysiäinen (eds) Ihmistiede tänään. Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies. Helsinki: Gaudeamus.

2005c. ‘Tiedon rakentuminen kielitieteessä’ in Anneli Meurman-Solin and Ilkka Pyysiäinen (eds) Ihmistieteet tänään. Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies. Helsinki: Gaudeamus, 296-317 .

2005d. ’Johdanto’ in Meurman-Solin, Anneli and Ilkka Pyysiäinen (eds) Ihmistiede tänään. Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies. Helsinki: Gaudeamus, 9-22.

2004a. 'Towards a Variationist Typology of Clausal Connectives. Methodological Considerations Based on the Corpus of Scottish Correspondence' in Marina Dossena and Roger Lass (eds), Methods and Data in English Historical Dialectology (Linguistic Insights. Studies in Language and Communication. Vol. 16.), 171-197. Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wien: Peter Lang.

2004b. 'From inventory to typology in English historical dialectology' in Christian Kay, Simon Horobin and Jeremy Smith (eds), New Perspectives on English Historical Linguistics, Vol. I: Syntax and Morphology, 125-151. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

2004c. 'Data and Methods in Scottish Historical Linguistics' in Ermanno Barisone, Maria Luisa Maggioni and Paola Tornaghi (eds), The History of English and the Dynamics of Power, 25-42. Alessandria: Edizioni dell'Orso.

2004d. Meurman-Solin, Anneli and Arja Nurmi. 'Circumstantial adverbials and stylistic literacy in the evolution of epistolary discourse' in Britt-Louise Gunnarsson, Lena Bergström, Gerd Eklund, Staffan Fridell, Lise H. Hansen, Angela Karstadt, Bengt Nordberg, Eva Sundgren and Mats Thelander (eds), Language Variation in Europe. Papers from ICLaVE 2, 302-314. Uppsala: Universitetstryckeriet.

2003a. 'Corpus-based Study of Older Scots Grammar and Lexis' in John Corbett, J. Derrick McClure and Jane Stuart-Smith (eds) The Edinburgh Companion to Scots, 170-196. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

2003b. CSC The Corpus of Scottish Correspondence, 1542-1708.

2002a. 'The progressive in early Scots' in Teresa Fanego, María José López-Couso and Javier Pérez-Guerra (eds), English Historical Syntax and Morphology. Selected Papers from 11ICEHL. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 203-29.

2002b. 'Simple and complex grammars: the case of temporal subordinators in the history of Scots'. In Helena Raumolin-Brunberg, Minna Nevala, Arja Nurmi & 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. 187-210.

2001a. 'Structured Text Corpora in the Study of Language Variation and Change', Literary and Linguistic Computing, Vol. 16, No. 1, 5-27.

2001b. 'Genre as a Variable in Sociohistorical Linguistics', European Journal of English Studies , Vol. 5, No. 2, 241-56.

2001c. 'Women as informants in the reconstruction of geographically and socioculturally conditioned language variation and change in the 16th and 17th century Scots', Scottish Language 20:20-46.

2000a. 'Change from above or from below? Mapping the loci of linguistic change in the history of Scottish English' in Laura Wright (ed.), The Development of Standard English, 1300-1800: theories, descriptions, conflicts, 155-70. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

2000b. 'On the conditioning of geographical and social distance in language variation and change in Renaissance Scots' in Dieter Kastovsky and Arthur Mettinger (eds), The History of English in a Social Context. A Contribution to Historical Sociolinguistics. (Trends in Linguistics, Studies and Monographs 129), 227-55. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

2000c. 'Geographical, socio-spatial and systemic distance in the spread of the relative who in Scots' in Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero, David Denison, Richard M. Hogg and C. B. McCully (eds), Generative Theory and Corpus Studies: A Dialogue from 10ICEHL, 417-38. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

2000d. 'Prepositional ditransitive types of verb complementation' in Mair Christian and Marianne Hundt (eds) Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory. Papers from the Twentieth International Conference on English Language Research on Computerized Corpora (ICAME 20). Amsterdam - Atlanta, GA.

1999a. 'Letters as a Source of Data for Reconstructing Early Spoken Scots' in Irma Taavitsainen, Gunnel Melchers and Päivi Pahta (eds), Writing in Nonstandard English, 305-22. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

1999b. 'Point of View in Scottish and English Genre Styles' in Neil McMillan and Kirsten Stirling (eds), Odd Alliances. Scottish Studies in European contexts, 25-51. Glasgow: Cruithne Press.

1997a. 'On Differentiation and Standardization in Early Scots' in Charles Jones (ed.), The Edinburgh History of the Scots Language, 3-23. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

1997b. 'A Corpus-Based Study on t/d deletion and insertion in Late Medieval and Renaissance Scottish English' in Terttu Nevalainen and Leena Kahlas-Tarkka (eds), To Explain the Present. Studies in the Changing English Language in Honour of Matti Rissanen, 111-24. Helsinki: Société Néophilologique.

1997c. 'Text profiles in the study of language variation and change' in Raymond Hickey, Merja Kytö, Ian Lancashire and Matti Rissanen (eds), Tracing the trail of time. Proceedings from the Second Diachronic Corpora Workshop, 199-214. Amsterdam and Atlanta, GA: Rodopi.

1997d. 'Towards reconstructing a grammar of point of view: Textual roles of adjectives and open-class adverbs in Early Modern English' in Matti Rissanen, Merja Kytö and Kirsi Heikkonen (eds), English in Transition: Corpus-based studies in linguistic variation and genre styles, 267-343. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter.

1995a. 'A New Tool: The Helsinki Corpus of Older Scots (1450-1700)', ICAME Journal, Vol. 19: 49-62.

1995b. 'Marking of Stance in Early Modern English Imaginative Narration' in Wolfgang Görtschacher and Holger Klein (eds), Narrative Strategies in Early English Fiction, 25-52. Lewiston, New York/Salzburg: Edwin Mellen.

1994. 'On the Evolution of Prose Genres in Older Scots', Nowele, Vol. 23, 91-138. Reprinted in Meurman-Solin (1993a).

1993a. Variation and change in early Scottish prose. Studies based on the Helsinki Corpus of Older Scots (Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae, Diss. Humanarum Litterarum, 65). Helsinki.

1993b. 'Periphrastic and auxiliary do in early Scottish prose genres' in Matti Rissanen, Merja Kytö and Minna Palander-Collin (eds), Early English in the computer age: explorations through the Helsinki Corpus (Topics in English Linguistics, 11), 235-51. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Reprinted in Meurman-Solin (1993a).

1993c. 'The author-addressee relationship and the marking of stance in the characterization of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century genre styles', Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire 71/3:733-745.

1992. 'On the morphology of verbs in Middle Scots: present and present perfect indicative' in Matti Rissanen, Ossi Ihalainen, Terttu Nevalainen and Irma Taavitsainen (eds), History of Englishes. New Methods and Interpretations in Historical Linguistics, 611-23. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Reprinted in Meurman-Solin (1993a).

1989. 'Variation Analysis and Diachronic Studies of Lexical Borrowing' in Graham Caie et al. (eds), Proceedings from the Fourth Nordic Conference for English Studies, Vol. 1: 87-98. Copenhagen: Department of English, University of Copenhagen. Reprinted in Meurman-Solin (1993a).