Maggie Tallerman is a professor of

linguistics Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning), Morphology (linguistics), morphology (structure of words), phonetics (speech sounds ...

Newcastle University Newcastle University (legally the University of Newcastle upon Tyne) is a public research university based in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It has overseas campuses in Singapore and Malaysia. The university is a red brick university and a mem ...

. Her research interests include Celtic linguistics, language origins and evolution (evolutionary linguistics), language typology,

morphology Morphology, from the Greek and meaning "study of shape", may refer to: Disciplines *Morphology (archaeology), study of the shapes or forms of artifacts *Morphology (astronomy), study of the shape of astronomical objects such as nebulae, galaxies, ...

and

morphosyntax In linguistics, morphology is the study of words, including the principles by which they are formed, and how they relate to one another within a language. Most approaches to morphology investigate the structure of words in terms of morphemes, wh ...

. She is a leading expert in the fields of language evolution and

syntax In linguistics, syntax ( ) is the study of how words and morphemes combine to form larger units such as phrases and sentences. Central concerns of syntax include word order, grammatical relations, hierarchical sentence structure (constituenc ...

of the

Welsh language Welsh ( or ) is a Celtic languages, Celtic language of the Brittonic languages, Brittonic subgroup that is native to the Welsh people. Welsh is spoken natively in Wales by about 18% of the population, by some in England, and in (the Welsh c ...

Education

Tallerman gained her PhD from the

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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.

Career

Tallerman has previously held positions at the

University of Durham Durham University (legally the University of Durham) is a collegiate public research university in Durham, England, founded by an Act of Parliament in 1832 and incorporated by royal charter in 1837. It was the first recognised university to ...

, Department of Linguistics, as Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Reader (1982-2004). Tallerman's research interests include Celtic linguistics, language origins and evolution. Her particular interests include Brythonic Celtic and Language Evolution.

Publications

Her works include: * 2015 ''Understanding Syntax'' published by

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. * 2012 with Kathleen Gibson, editor ''The Oxford Handbook of Language Evolution'.'' * 2007 with Robert D. Borsley and David Willis. ''The Syntax of Welsh.'' Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. * 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/ * Linguistics Association of Great Britain * Linguistic Society of America * Philological Society

References

External links

* Linguists from the United Kingdom British women linguists Academics of Newcastle University Living people Alumni of the University of Hull Academics of Durham University Year of birth missing (living people) {{UK-linguist-stub