David Willis (linguist)

ISBN 9780198237594

Willis, David. 2000. On the distribution of resumptive pronouns and wh-trace in Welsh. Journal of Linguistics 36(3), 531–573.

Borsley, Robert, Maggie Tallerman, and David Willis. 2007. The syntax of Welsh. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN   9780511486227

Willis, David. 2007. Syntactic lexicalization as a new type of degrammaticalization. Linguistics 45(2), 271–310.

Breitbarth, Anne, Christopher Lucas, Sheila Watts, and David Willis (eds.). 2009. Continuity and change in grammar. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. ISBN   9789027255426

Willis, David, Christopher Lucas, and Anne Breitbarth (eds.). 2013. The history of negation in the languages of Europe and the Mediterranean, Volume I: Case studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN   9780199602537

Breitbarth, Anne, David Willis, and Christopher Lucas (eds.). 2020. The history of negation in the languages of Europe and the Mediterranean, Volume II: Patterns and processes. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN   9780199602544

References

1. "Dr David Willis appointed as the new Jesus Chair of Celtic". Archived from the original on 13 April 2020. Retrieved 11 February 2020.
2. "Historical Ling Lectureship, U of Manchester UK". Archived from the original on September 2, 2000. Retrieved 11 February 2020.
3. "Dr David Willis" . Retrieved 11 February 2020.
4. "Record number of women elected to the British Academy". The British Academy. 22 July 2022. Retrieved 15 August 2022.
5. "Professor David Willis". Jesus College, Oxford. Retrieved 18 April 2025.
6. Willis, David W. E. (1998). Syntactic Change in Welsh: A Study of the Loss of Verb-Second. Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. iv. ISBN   0198237596.

David Willis FBA
Born	David W. E. Willis
Occupation(s)	Linguist and academic
Title	Jesus Professor of Celtic
Academic background
Thesis	The loss of verb-second in Welsh: Study of syntactic change (1996)
Doctoral advisor	Ellis Evans

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