Paula Rautionaho
Senior Researcher
School of Humanities, Philosophical Faculty
paula.rautionaho@uef.fi | +358 50 477 0798
I study grammatical variation in world Englishes – English is spoken all over the world as a native language, second language or foreign language, but is English the same everywhere? I’m particularly interested in the progressive construction (I‘m reading an interesting book.), but also in modal auxiliaries and forms of the verb BE. I study world Englishes, but also recent change in British English. In my research, I use corpus linguistic tools and advanced statistical methods.
Recently, I’ve grown an interest in the status of English in Finland.
I coordinate the Research infrastructure for datasets and humanities at the Philosophical Faculty.
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Englanti Suomen kansalliskielten rinnalla
Laitinen, Mikko; Leppänen, Sirpa, Rautionaho, Paula; Backman, Sara. 2023. Policy Brief: valtioneuvoston selvitys- ja tutkimustoiminta. . Valtioneuvoston kanslia -
Englanti Suomen kansalliskielten rinnalla: Kohti joustavaa monikielisyyttä
Laitinen, Mikko; Leppänen, Sirpa; Rautionaho, Paula; Backman, Sara. 2023. Valtioneuvoston selvitys- ja tutkimustoiminnan julkaisusarja. . Valtioneuvoston kanslia -
English around the Globe: Local and Global Perspectives on Social and Regional Variation
Rautionaho, Paula; Parviainen, Hanna; Kaunisto, Mark; Nurmi, Arja. Teoksessa: Rautionaho, Paula; Parviainen, Hanna; Kaunisto, Mark; Nurmi, Arja(toim.) , 2022. Social and Regional Variation in World Englishes : Local and Global Perspectives. s. 1-7. Routledge -
Social and Regional Variation in World Englishes : Local and Global Perspectives
Rautionaho, Paula; Parviainen, Hanna; Kaunisto, Mark; Nurmi, Arja. 2022. Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics. . Routledge -
Was/were variation with subject pronouns we, you, and they in recent British English : Towards standard uses?
Rautionaho, Paula; Kaunisto, Mark. Teoksessa: Rautionaho, Paula; Parviainen, Hanna; Kaunisto, Mark; Nurmi, Arja(toim.) , 2022. Social and Regional Variation in World Englishes : Local and Global Perspectives. s. 43-65. Routledge -
Corpora and the Changing Society: Studies in the Evolution of English
Rautionaho, Paula; Nurmi, Arja; Klemola, Juhani. 2020. Studies in corpus linguistics. . John benjamins -
Introduction: Corpora and the Changing Society
Rautionaho, Paula; Nurmi, Arja; Klemola, Juhani. Teoksessa: Rautionaho, Paula; Nurmi, Arja; Klemola, Juhani(toim.) , 2020. Corpora and the Changing Society: Studies in the Evolution of English. s. ix-xii. John benjamins -
Progressive or not progressive?: Modeling constructional choices in EFL and ESL
Paula Rautionaho; Sandra C. Deshors. Teoksessa: Werner, Valentin; Fuchs, Robert(toim.) , 2020. Tense and aspect in Second Language Acquisition and Learner Corpus Research. s. 84-110. John benjamins -
Progressive or simple? A corpus-based study of aspect in World Englishes
Hundt, Marianne; Rautionaho, Paula; Strobl, Carolin. 2020. Corpora. 15: 77-106 -
Recent change in stative progressives: a collostructional investigation of British English in 1994 and 2014
Rautionaho, Paula; Fuchs, Robert. 2020. English language and linguistics. 2021; 25: 35-60