Maggie Tallerman
Maggie Tallerman | |
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Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Hull |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Linguistics |
Institutions | Newcastle University Durham University |
Maggie Tallerman is a professor of
language evolution and syntax of the Welsh language
.
Education
Tallerman gained her PhD from the University of Hull in 1987 on the ‘Mutation and the syntactic structure of Modern Colloquial Welsh’ under the supervisor Nigel B Vincent. She gained her B.A. (Hons) in 1979 in linguistics, also at the University of Hull.[2]
Career
Tallerman has previously held positions at the
University of Durham, Department of Linguistics, as Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Reader (1982-2004).[1]
Tallerman's research interests include
Language Evolution.[3]
Publications
Her works include:
- 2015 Understanding Syntax published by Routledge.[4]
- 2012 with Kathleen Gibson, editor The Oxford Handbook of Language Evolution[5].
- 2007 with Robert D. Borsley and David Willis. The Syntax of Welsh. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.[6]
- Tallerman, Maggie. VSO word order and consonantal mutation in Welsh. Linguistics 1990, 28, 389–416.
Memberships
- EVOLANG - The International Conferences on the Evolution of Language: http://www.evolang.org/[2]
- Linguistics Association of Great Britain [1]
- Linguistic Society of America [1]
- Philological Society [1]
References
- ^ a b c d e "Staff Profile - Professor Maggie Tallerman". Newcastle University.
- ^ a b "Staff Profile - English Literature, Language and Linguistics - Newcastle University". www.ncl.ac.uk. Retrieved 11 December 2017.
- ^ a b "Staff Profile - English Literature, Language and Linguistics - Newcastle University". www.ncl.ac.uk. Retrieved 11 December 2017.
- ISBN 9781317635116.
- ISBN 9780199541119.
- ISBN 9781139467513.
External links
- Maggie Tallerman publications indexed by Google Scholar