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| Name: | George Walkden |
| Institution: | University of Manchester |
| Email: | click here to access email |
| Homepage: | http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/george.walkden/ |
| State and/or Country: | United Kingdom |
| Linguistic Field(s): |
Historical Linguistics Syntax |
| Language Family(ies): |
Germanic |
| Selected Publications: |
2013 (forthcoming). Verb-third in early West Germanic: a comparative perspective. In Biberauer & Walkden (eds.), Syntax over time.
2013 (forthcoming). The correspondence problem in syntactic reconstruction. Diachronica. 2013 (forthcoming). The status of hwæt in Old English. English Language and Linguistics. (Winner of the Richard M. Hogg Prize 2011.) 2012. Against Inertia. Lingua 122: 891-901. 2011. Abduction or Inertia? The logic of syntactic change. In Chris Cummins, Chi-Hé Elder, Thomas Godard, Morgan Macleod, Elaine Schmidt & George Walkden (eds.), Proceedings of the Sixth Cambridge Postgraduate Conference in Language Research, 230-239. Cambridge: Cambridge Institute of Language Research. 2009. Deriving the Final-over-Final Constraint from third factor considerations. Cambridge Occasional Papers in Linguistics 5: 67-72. |
| Courses Taught: |
Introducing English Grammar
Historical Syntax Introduction to Historical Linguistics English Corpus Linguistics |
| Dissertation Abstract: | Syntactic Reconstruction and Proto-Germanic |
| Reviewer of: |
Grammatical Change
(LL Issue 23.1810) |
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