University lecturer UTU / yliopistonlehtori TY. Docent ÅA. Writes about words past, speaks about clauses present. users.utu.fi/skaffe/

Joined April 2009
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My latest publication deals with flagging #multilingual features in #manuscripts from the long 12th century. It's in this great book, and open access: edition.fi/ufy/catalog/book/… #historyofenglish
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Come work with me and my colleagues @UniTurku! The applications deadline is seven days from this afternoon.
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29 Mar 2024
Hae meille töihin, englannin kielen asiantuntija! Useita tehtäviä haettavana 16.4. mennessä, profiilissa kielentutkimus ja/tai käännöstiede taito-opetusta. utu.fi > Tervetuloa meille töihin!
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I've reached that stage when you have the Ormulum on your bedside table. #historyofenglish #research
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19 Dec 2023
Submitted my fourth article in ten weeks. Can I call it a day? A year? Yes I can! #HappyHolidays starting this instance 🙂 #lecturerslife
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14 Dec 2023
Yesterday's news: Kielikello published a piece on English in the Finnish linguistic landscape that serves as a little taster of a larger study by @MinnaMikaela and myself. #kielimaisema
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10 Sep 2023
So this was supposed to be my one day off this week, but my head's still buzzing after the three-day #trextuality conference. All kinds of ideas for the next steps in multilingual text research... but tomorrow I need to go back to work on two completely unrelated projects.
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Superb, exciting final plenary by Guyda Armstrong. #trextuality
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"Travelling things: materialising translation in premodern objects" celebrated the fact that 'we do things in stuff', in physical objects and devices.
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So I threw #codeswitching, #manuscripts, #translation and textual problems into the same basket and talked about it. #Trextuality @SKS_finlit @UniTurku Photo by @suchwanderings
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Great papers, great speakers, great crowd! #Trextuality meets the #Renaissance @UniTurku @SKS_finlit
Our panel on translation and multilingual texts in Renaissance Europe @UniTurku was a great success! Thanks to the wonderful audience for the brilliant questions and @jansfi for chairing! @uu_translation #trextuality
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This morning's #trextuality plenary: Dirk Weissmann looks behind the surface of the monolingual text. #uniturku @SKS_finlit
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First plenary: wonderful Outi Paloposki on adventures in #translation archives. @UniTurku #trextuality @SKS_finlit
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So it begins: the first international #trextuality conference @UniTurku @SKS_finlit
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Working on my paper for the #trextuality conference organised by @SKS_finlit at @UniTurku. It starts tomorrow morning! #translation #textuality #multilingual #texts
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All Ormed out. Thanks to everyone who made #icehl22 a great conference!
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When the plenary speaker cites your team's article. Thanks, @_MelEvans! #icehl22
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Today I've mostly been thinking about the Ormulum. Tomorrow too, probably. #icehl22
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29 Jun 2023
Haven't tweeted in a while... [insert something #icehl22 related here]
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25 May 2023
What a terrible thing to miss #ktp2023 this week! But 'I' managed to 'give' a talk on #linguisticlandscapes in absentia this afternoon, thanks to co-author @MinnaMikaela. #lecturerslife #linguistics
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