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Name:	David  W. E. Willis
Institution:	Cambridge University
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Homepage:	http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/dtal/staff/dwew2
State and/or Country:	United Kingdom
Linguistic Field(s):	Historical Linguistics Syntax
Specialty:	Syntactic change
Subject Language(s):	Bulgarian Breton Russian Welsh Welsh, Middle Russian, Old Breton, Middle
Selected Publications:	Syntactic change in Welsh: A study of the loss of verb-second. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. The syntax of Welsh. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. [with Robert Borsley and Maggie Tallerman] Continuity and Change in Grammar. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2010 [co-edited with Anne Breitbarth, Chris Lucas and Sheila Watts]
Announced on LINGUIST :	Syntactic Change in Welsh: A Study of the Loss Of Verb-Second  The Syntax of Welsh
Courses Taught:	Historical linguistics History and varieties of English Syntax Slavonic languages
Dissertation Director * of:	Syntactic Reconstruction and Proto-Germanic (George Walkden, Author)
Dissertation Director * of:	The Development of Negation in Arabic and Afro-Asiatic (Christopher Lucas, Author)
Academic Paper Abstract:	Andrew Carnie and Eithne Guilfoyle (eds.), The syntax of verb initial languages (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax). New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. vii+256. Against N-raising and NP-raising analyses of Welsh noun phrases Syntactic lexicalization as a new type of degrammaticalization Reconstructing last week's weather: Syntactic reconstruction and Brythonic free relatives Never Again: The Multiple Grammaticalization of Never as a Marker of Negation in English
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