Terttu Nevalainen (born 31 May 1952, Vuolijoki) is a Finnish linguist and the current Chair of English Philology at the University of Helsinki.
[1] She has been a member of the Finnish Academy of Sciences since 2001 and was inducted as a First Class Knight of the Order of the White Rose of Finland in 2015.
editor-in-chief of the monograph series Oxford Studies in the History of English[4] and co-editor of the Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics journal.
building an open-access Language Change Database to facilitate statistical modelling and comparative sociolinguistic typologies.
[6] In 2002, a Festschrift entitled Variation Past and Present (Mémoires de la Société Néophilologique LXI), was complied in her honor by Raumolin-Brunberg, H. et al.[7]