David Willis

Name:	David Willis
Affiliation:	University of Cambridge
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Last login:	Wed Apr 24 13:33:49 +0000 2019

Public lists managed by David Willis

• Conference "Continuity and Change in Grammar"
• Historical Linguistics Research Cluster

Talks given by David Willis

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• Using Social Media to Investigate Linguistic Variation and Change

Talks organised by David Willis

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• Historical linguistics reading group
• The pro cycle
• Polynomia in Sardinia and Corsica: A case study
• Introducing the Corpus of Dutch English: Background and methodological insights
• The development of normative metalanguage in English grammars, 1677-1712.
• Speaker attitudes to the French language in France and Québec: Purist or moderate?
• Commandeering language? Linguistic prescriptivism and variation in Quebec today
• Communicative competence and eighteenth-century English norms of correctness
• Fieldwork on Semitic Languages
• Creating an electronic dictionary for an endangered language: Linguistic and extralinguistic implications
• Scandinavian negative shift and cyclic linearization
• Discussion of: Labov, William. 2007. Transmission and diffusion. Language 83: 344–87.
• From bilingual language acquisition to theories of diachronic change.