Paula Rautionaho
Senior Researcher
School of Humanities, Philosophical Faculty
[email protected] | +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.
Projects
Publications
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Do we swear more with friends or with acquaintances? F#ck in social networks
Laitinen, Mikko; Rautionaho, Paula; Fatemi, Masoud; Halonen, Mikko, 2025, Lingua, 320, 103931. A1 Journal article (refereed), original research -
Grinding to a halt? The spread of the progressive in recent spoken British English
Rautionaho, Paula, 2025, Carlucci, Alessandro; Nykiel, Jerzy, The Progressive Revisited: Historical and Quantitative Studies in Germanic and Romance Languages, 75-97. A3 Book section, Chapters in research books -
Reuse of social media data in corpus linguistics
Laitinen, Mikko; Rautionaho, Paula, 2025, International journal of corpus linguistics, 30, 2, 171-194. A1 Journal article (refereed), original research -
Englanti Suomen kansalliskielten rinnalla
Laitinen, Mikko; Leppänen, Sirpa, Rautionaho, Paula; Backman, Sara, 2023, Valtioneuvoston kanslia. D4 Published development or research report or study -
Englanti Suomen kansalliskielten rinnalla: Kohti joustavaa monikielisyyttä
Laitinen, Mikko; Leppänen, Sirpa; Rautionaho, Paula; Backman, Sara, 2023, Valtioneuvoston kanslia. D4 Published development or research report or study -
English around the Globe: Local and Global Perspectives on Social and Regional Variation
Rautionaho, Paula; Parviainen, Hanna; Kaunisto, Mark; Nurmi, Arja, 2022, Rautionaho, Paula; Parviainen, Hanna; Kaunisto, Mark; Nurmi, Arja, Social and Regional Variation in World Englishes : Local and Global Perspectives, 1-7. A3 Book section, Chapters in research books -
Social and Regional Variation in World Englishes : Local and Global Perspectives
Rautionaho, Paula; Parviainen, Hanna; Kaunisto, Mark; Nurmi, Arja, 2022, Routledge. C2 Edited book, conference proceedings or special issue of a journal -
Was/were variation with subject pronouns we, you, and they in recent British English : Towards standard uses?
Rautionaho, Paula; Kaunisto, Mark, 2022, Rautionaho, Paula; Parviainen, Hanna; Kaunisto, Mark; Nurmi, Arja, Social and Regional Variation in World Englishes : Local and Global Perspectives, 43-65. A3 Book section, Chapters in research books -
Corpora and the Changing Society: Studies in the Evolution of English
Rautionaho, Paula; Nurmi, Arja; Klemola, Juhani, 2020, John benjamins. C2 Edited book, conference proceedings or special issue of a journal -
Introduction: Corpora and the Changing Society
Rautionaho, Paula; Nurmi, Arja; Klemola, Juhani, 2020, Rautionaho, Paula; Nurmi, Arja; Klemola, Juhani, Corpora and the Changing Society: Studies in the Evolution of English, ix-xii. B2 Book section