This is a selection of my recent talks; for more, see the University of Helsinki research portal.
2025. Säily, Tanja, Jukka Suomela, Florent Perek, Jimena Jiménez Real & Turo Vartiainen. Using large language models to enrich corpus metadata: The case of novels in COHA. 46th Annual Conference of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME 46), Vilnius, Lithuania, June 2025.
2024. Liimatta, Aatu, Tanja Säily & Enes Yılandiloğlu. The development of -body/-one indefinites in eighteenth-century British publishing networks. 45th Annual Conference of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME 45), Vigo, Spain, June 2024.
2024. Perek, Florent, Tanja Säily & Jukka Suomela. Historical sociolinguistics meets constructional change: Gender and the way-construction in the Corpus of Historical American English. 57th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE 2024), Helsinki, Finland, August 2024.
2023. Säily, Tanja, Florent Perek & Jukka Suomela. Variation and change in in the productivity of BE going to V in the Corpus of Historical American English, 1810–2009. Workshop on Creativity and Productivity in CxG, Helsinki, Finland, September 2023.
2023. Liimatta, Aatu, Iiro Tiihonen, Lidia Pivovarova, Mikko Tolonen & Tanja Säily. A large-scale analysis of the use of Scotticisms in the eighteenth century. 7th International Symposium on the History of English Lexicography and Lexicology (HEL-LEX 7), Jamaica, June 2023.
2023. Säily, Tanja, Martin Hilpert & Jukka Suomela. The decline of -ment: Was gender a factor? Symposium: Historical English Word-Formation, Munich, Germany, February 2023.
2022. Säily, Tanja. Diachronic suffix competition across registers and social groups in Early and Late Modern English. 44th Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS 2022), Tübingen, Germany, February 2022.
2022. Vartiainen, Turo & Tanja Säily. Analysing category change with enriched data: A grammatical and sociolinguistic study of -ed participles, 1810–2009. 43rd Annual Conference of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME 43), Cambridge, UK, July 2022.
2021. Säily, Tanja, Martin Hilpert & Jukka Suomela. New approaches to investigating change in derivational productivity. 42nd Annual Conference of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME 42), Dortmund, Germany, August 2021.
2021. Säily, Tanja, Paula Rodríguez-Puente & Jukka Suomela. New methods for analysing suffix competition across registers: How -ity gained ground on -ness in Early Modern English. 6th Conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE 6), Joensuu, Finland, June 2021. Video; presentation slides.
2021. Säily, Tanja, Turo Vartiainen, Harri Siirtola & Terttu Nevalainen. Changing styles of letter-writing? Evidence from a POS-tagged corpus of 18th-century letters. 21st International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 21), Leiden, The Netherlands, June 2021.
2019. Säily, Tanja & Mark J. Hill. Comparing intellectual poses: Public authority, actual and represented. Portraits & Poses: Representations of Female Intellectual Authority, Agency and Authorship in Early Modern and Enlightenment Europe (Annual Conference of the Dutch-Belgian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies), Leuven, Belgium, March 2019.
2019. Säily, Tanja, Eetu Mäkelä & Mika Hämäläinen. Neologisms in early English letters: How to find them and what they can reveal. 6th International Symposium on History of English Lexicography and Lexicology (HEL-LEX 6), Gargnano, Italy, June 2019.
2019. Öhman, Emily, Tanja Säily & Mikko Laitinen. Towards the inevitable demise of everybody? A multifactorial analysis of -one/-body/-man variation in indefinite pronouns in historical American English. 40th Annual Conference of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME 40), Neuchâtel, Switzerland, June 2019.
2018. Säily, Tanja, Eetu Mäkelä & Mika Hämäläinen. Developing an environment for neologism detection in historical corpora. 20th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 20), Edinburgh, UK, August 2018.
2018. Nevalainen, Terttu, Turo Vartiainen and Tanja Säily. History of English as punctuated equilibria? 20th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 20), Edinburgh, UK, August 2018.
2017. Säily, Tanja, Jukka Suomela & Eetu Mäkelä. From old-English grubbers to cheeky blighters? Variation in the productivity of -er in the history of English. 5th International Symposium on History of English Lexicography and Lexicology (HEL-LEX 5), Zürich, Switzerland, February 2017.
2025. Säily, Tanja. Social aspects of semantic and constructional change in large historical datasets. 2nd CASCADE Training and Research Camp, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany, March 2025.
2023. Säily, Tanja. Sociolinguistic variation and change in productivity. Lecture series on productivity, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands, December 2023. Presentation slides.
2023. Säily, Tanja & Aatu Liimatta. Sociocultural change and public discourse in eighteenth-century Britain. Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK, October 2023. Video.
2023. Säily, Tanja. A large-scale analysis of the use of Scotticisms in the eighteenth century. Diversity in Human Diversity seminar, University of Turku, Turku, Finland, August 2023.
2023. Säily, Tanja. Quantifying variation and change in word types. HSSH Brown Bag Seminar, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, February 2023. Presentation slides.
2022. Säily, Tanja. Lexical innovation in the TV Corpus (1950–2018). OED Advisory Forum, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, February 2022.
2021. Säily, Tanja. Language variation and change in eighteenth-century publications and publishing networks. LADAL Opening Webinar Series, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, October 2021. Webinar.
2021. Säily, Tanja. Uusia tuulia morfologisen produktiivisuuden muutoksen tutkimuksessa [New approaches to investigating change in morphological productivity]. Annual meeting of the Modern Language Society of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, February 2021.
2020. Säily, Tanja. “No room for Compliments”: Layered materiality of text in corpus-based historical sociolinguistics. Material Text seminar, University of Turku, Turku, Finland, November 2020.
2019. Säily, Tanja. Variation and change in individual writers of early English letters. Lecture series “Flexible speakers – flexible writers”, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany, June 2019.
2019. Säily, Tanja. Sociolinguistic variation in the history of English: Productivity, neologisms and gendered styles. Research colloquium, Department of Language Science and Technology, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany, February 2019. Abstract.
2019. Säily, Tanja & Eetu Mäkelä. The OED and historical text collections: Discovering new words. OED webinar series, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, July 2019. Webinar; blog post part 1, part 2.
2019. Säily, Tanja, Eetu Mäkelä & Terttu Nevalainen. Between the OED and historical text collections: The case of discovering new words. OED lecture series, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, February 2019. Presentation slides.
2016. Säily, Tanja. Kielen vaihtelu ja muutos: korpusmenetelmien ja visualisoinnin uusia tuulia [Language variation and change: New methods in corpus linguistics and visualization]. University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland, April 2016.
2015. Nevalainen, Terttu & Tanja Säily. Digital diversity in language studies: Is multidisciplinary collaboration the key to analysing rich data? Keynote, Langnet Conference, Tampere, Finland, November 2015.