
MARKKU FILPPULA
Professor, Emeritus
Markku Filppula is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Eastern Finland and a member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters. He has served on the boards of international scholarly organisations such as Societas Linguistica Europaea, Methods in Dialectology, and the Nordic Centre in India. His research has focused on present-day and earlier varieties of English spoken in the British Isles and Ireland, and on World Englishes. He is the author of Hiberno-English in a Functional Sentence Perspective (University of Joensuu Press, 1986), The Grammar of Irish English: Language in Hibernian Style (Routledge, 1999), and (together with Juhani Klemola and Heli Paulasto) English and Celtic in Contact (Routledge, 2008). He is co-editor of The Celtic Roots of English (University of Joensuu Press, 2002), Dialects Across Borders (Benjamins, 2005), Vernacular Universals and Language Contacts (Routledge, 2009), The Oxford Handbook of World Englishes (Oxford University Press, 2016), and Changing English: Global and Local Perspectives (Walter de Gruyter, 2017). Together with Juhani Klemola, he was guest editor of the Special Issue on ’Re-evaluating the Celtic Hypothesis’ for English Language and Linguistics 13:2 (Cambridge University Press, 2009). He has published widely in journals, edited collections, and handbooks. He has also contributed a chapter on the grammar of Irish English for The Mouton World Atlas of Variation in English (Mouton de Gruyter, 2013).
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Philosophical Faculty, School of Humanities
markku.filppula@uef.fi
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Publications
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External Influences in the History of English. Filppula, Markku; Klemola, Juhani / Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics. 2020. 2020
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Changing English. Global and Local Perspectives. Filppula Markku, Klemola Juhani, Mauranen Anna, Vetchinnikova Svetlana. 2017 2017
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Filppula Markku, Klemola Juhani, Mauranen Anna, Vetchinnikova Svetlana. 2017. Changing English: global and local perspectives. In: Filppula Markku, Klemola Juhani, Mauranen Anna, Vetchinnikova Svetlana (ed.) Changing English: Global and Local Perspectives. Mouton de gruyter. Topics in English Linguistics. s. xi-xiv. 2017
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Filppula Markku, Klemola Juhani. 2017. The definite article in World Englishes. In: Filppula M, Klemola J, Mauranen A, Vetchinnikova S (ed.) Changing English: Global and Local Perspectives. Topics in English Linguistics. Mouton de gruyter. s. 155-168. 2017
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Filppula Markku, Klemola Juhani, Sharma Devyani. 2016. Introduction: World Englishes and Linguistic Theory. In: Filppula Markku, Klemola Juhani, Sharma Devyani (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of World Englishes. Oxford university press 2016. s. 1-13. 2016
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Filppula Markku. 2016. Convergent Developments between 'Old' and 'New' Varieties of English. In: Filppula M, Klemola J, Sharma D (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of World Englishes. Oxford university press. s. 1-30. 2016
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Filppula Markku. 2016. Expression of the perfect in two contact varieties of English. In: Valentin Werner, Elena Seoane, Cristina Suárez-Gómez (ed.) Re-assessing the Present Perfect. Mouton de gruyter. Topics in English Linguistics 91. s. 95-117. 2016
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The Oxford Handbook of World Englishes. Filppula Markku, Klemola Juhani, Sharma Devyani. 2016 2016
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Filppula Markku, Klemola Juhani. 2014. Celtic Influences in English: A Re-evaluation. Neuphilologische Mitteilungen CXV 1: 33-53. 2014
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Filppula, Markku. 2014. External Influences on English: From its Beginnings to the Renaissance. English Studies 95 4: 480-482. 2014