Terttu Nevalainen#
Photo: Veikko Somerpuro
| Membership Number: | 6236 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FINLAND |
| Homepage(s): | http://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/terttu-nevalainen |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-3088-4903 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2019 Professor Emerita, University of Helsinki
- 1997 - 2019 Professor and Chair of English Philology, University of Helsinki
- 2010 - 2014 Academy Professor, Academy of Finland
- 2001 - 2012 Director of the Finnish National Centre of Excellence for the Study of Variation, Contacts and Change in English (VARIENG), University of Helsinki
- Sept 2007 - Feb 2008 Leverhulme Visiting Professor, School of English, University of Sheffield (UK)
- Jan - March 1994 Visiting Fellow, St Catharine's College, Cambridge
- 1993 - 1997 Associate Professor, University of Helsinki
Fields of Scholarship
- Corpus linguistics
- History of the English language
- Historical sociolinguistics
Honours and Awards
- 2021 Gad Rausing Prize for outstanding humanistic research awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities
- 2020 Honorary Member of the Philological Society (UK)
- 2019 Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy
- 2015 First Class Knight of the Order of the White Rose of Finland
- 2008 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science fellowship
- 2006 City of Helsinki Research Award
- 2001 Member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters
