David Willis

David Willis

ORCID iD
orcid.org/0000-0003-0755-9248

is author/editor of the following title:

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Continuity and Change in Grammar
Edited by Anne Breitbarth, Christopher Lucas, Sheila Watts and David Willis
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 159]  2010.  viii, 359 pp.

is editor/board member of the following journal:

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Linguistic Variation (LV)

is author of the following articles:

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Gopal, Deepthi, Tam Blaxter, David Willis and Adrian Leemann. 2021. “Testing models of diffusion of morphosyntactic innovations in Twitter data”. In Urban Matters: Current approaches in variationist sociolinguistics, 254–278
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Blaxter, Tam and David Willis. 2018. “Pragmatic differentiation of negative markers in the early stages of Jespersen’s cycle in North Germanic”. Diachronica  35:4, 451–486
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Nurmio, Silva and David Willis. 2016. “The rise and fall of a minor category”. Journal of Historical Linguistics  6:2, 297–339
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Willis, David. 2016. “Exaptation and degrammaticalization within an acquisition-based model of abductive reanalysis”. In Exaptation and Language Change, 197–225
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Willis, David. 2011. “Review of van Gelderen (2009): Cyclical Change ”. Diachronica  28:2, 281–289
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Willis, David. 2011. “The limits of resumption in Welsh wh-dependencies”. In Resumptive Pronouns at the Interfaces, 189–222
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Breitbarth, Anne, Christopher Lucas, Sheila Watts and David Willis. 2010. “Introduction”. In Continuity and Change in Grammar, 1–10
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Willis, David. 2010. “Motivating the emergence of new markers of sentential negation”. Diachronica  27:1, 110–156
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Willis, David. 2010. “Degrammaticalization and obsolescent morphology”. In Grammaticalization: Current views and issues, 151–178
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Willis, David. 1999. “The Structure of Old Russian Periphrastic Verbal Construction”. In Crossing Boundaries: Advances in the theory of Central and Eastern European languages, 45