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Helena Raumolin-Brunberg, Minna Nevala, Arja Nurmi, and Matti Rissanen (eds.), Variation past and present: VARIENG studies on English for Terttu Nevalainen. Mémoires de la Société Néophilologique de Helsinki, 61. Helsinki: Société Néophilologique, 2002. Pp. xviii, 378. Pb. $45.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 February 2004

Richard W. Bailey
Richard W. Bailey
Affiliation:
English, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 49109-1003, [email protected]
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It is an astonishing fact that the dynamo producing some of the most powerful scholarship on the history of the English language is not even in Indo-European territory. Under the inspired leadership of Professor Matti Rissanen, Helsinki has reached an unprecedented level of effort in this field, and, when Rissanen retired in 2001, Terttu Nevalainen became his successor as director of the Research Unit for Variation and Change in English. This volume celebrates her elevation to her new role and, at the same time, her fiftieth birthday.

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Language in Society , Volume 33 , Issue 1 , January 2004 , pp. 130 - 133
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© 2004 Cambridge University Press

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