Olli SilvennoinenÅbo Akademi University
Olli Silvennoinen
Doctor of Philosophy
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Skills and Expertise
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January 2022 - August 2024
September 2021 - December 2021
University of Helsinki
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- Researcher
September 2020 - July 2021
University of Eastern Finland
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- Lecturer
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This paper investigates the register variation of contrastive negation in English, a family of constructions that has so far not been explored in corpus-linguistic studies. Contrastive negation refers to expressions in which on...
This article is a quantitative study of contrastive negation in 11 European languages, using parallel and monolingual corpus data. Contrastive negation refers to expressions that combine a negated and an affirmed element so that the affirmed element replaces the negated one. In the languages being studied, there is typically a large number of const...
One cross-linguistically recurrent asymmetry between affirmation and negation is the neutralization of tense-aspect distinctions in negatives. A functional explanation proposed for this is that in their typical discourse context negatives have less need for temporal specification than affirmatives and in some languages this discourse preference is...
When restrictive adverbs are negated, an additive reading is produced (e.g., not only). This is particularly common in correlative constructions with a corrective part optionally introduced by but (e.g., not just in England but also in Scotland), but can also appear in other syntactic contexts. This study investigates the formal and functional vari...
Linguistic typology has recently started paying more and more attention to language use as an explanatory factor. In this approach, naturally occurring discourse data is used to account for the attested cross-linguistic patterns. This article offers a theoretical and methodological discussion of the usage-based approach taking the typology of negat...
This is a comparative investigation of contrastive negation in English and Finnish, i. e. combinations of a negated and an affirmed part construed as alternatives to one another. In both languages, there are several constructions that express contrastive negation, but their division of labour remains unclear. The aims of the paper are two-fold: fir...
This paper discusses constructional variation in the domain of contrastive negation in English, using data from the British National Corpus. Contrastive negation refers to constructs with two parts, one negative and the other affirmative, such that the affirmative offers an alternative to the negative in the frame in question (e.g. shaken, not stir...