I work mainly in contact linguistics (esp. code-switching and loanwords) and the history of English, particularly late Old to early Middle English. To explore these topics, I have combined broader, corpus-based approaches with detailed case studies of medieval texts; one of the texts that I always seem to return to is the Peterborough Chronicle. My research interests also include other (socio)linguistic phenomena from the Middle Ages to the present, the visuality of language and text, descriptive grammar(s) of Present-Day English, and teaching and learning in higher education.
My postdoctoral research project, funded by the Academy of Finland, focused on multilingual practices in medieval England, particularly code-switching between English, Latin and/or French in various types of texts from the late 11th century to the mid-13th century. From 2012 to 2015 I therefore worked as the sole researcher of the Multilingualism in the Long Twelfth Century project, and in 2015-2016 I was a member of the Multilingual Practices in the History of Written English team at the University of Tampere.
More information about the different research topics and projects is available under the Research tab. For publications, see also the University of Turku researcher listing.