Maggie Tallerman
{{Short description|British linguist}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{BLP primary sources|date=May 2017}}
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Durham University
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Maggie Tallerman is a professor of linguistics at Newcastle University.{{cite web|url=http://www.ncl.ac.uk/elll/staff/profile/maggietallerman.html|title=Staff Profile - Professor Maggie Tallerman |work=Newcastle University}} Her research interests include Celtic linguistics, language origins and evolution (evolutionary linguistics), language typology, morphology and morphosyntax. She is a leading expert in the fields of language evolution and syntax of the Welsh language.
Education
Tallerman gained her PhD from the University of Hull 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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.ncl.ac.uk/elll/staff/profile/maggietallerman.html#background|title=Staff Profile - English Literature, Language and Linguistics - Newcastle University|website=www.ncl.ac.uk|access-date=2017-12-11}}
Career
Tallerman has previously held positions at the University of Durham, Department of Linguistics, as Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Reader (1982-2004).
Tallerman's research interests include Celtic linguistics, language origins and evolution.{{Cite web|url=http://www.ncl.ac.uk/elll/staff/profile/maggietallerman.html#research|title=Staff Profile - English Literature, Language and Linguistics - Newcastle University|website=www.ncl.ac.uk|access-date=2017-12-11}} Her particular interests include Brythonic Celtic and Language Evolution.
Publications
Her works include:
- 2015 Understanding Syntax published by Routledge.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fg7EBAAAQBAJ&q=2015+Understanding+Syntax+published+by+Routledge&pg=PR4|title=Understanding Syntax|last=Tallerman|first=Maggie|date=2014-11-13|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781317635116|language=en}}
- 2012 with Kathleen Gibson, editor The Oxford Handbook of Language Evolution{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=doczP2WKeoMC&q=2012+with+Kathleen+Gibson%2C+editor+The+Oxford+Handbook+of+Language+Evolution|title=The Oxford Handbook of Language Evolution|last1=Tallerman|first1=Maggie|last2=Gibson|first2=Kathleen R.|date=2012|publisher=OUP Oxford|isbn=9780199541119|language=en}}.
- 2007 with Robert D. Borsley and David Willis. The Syntax of Welsh. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=glji0DIjmlgC&q=2014+The+Evolutionary+Origins+of+Syntax+In:+A.+Carnie,+Y.+Sato+|title=The Syntax of Welsh|last1=Borsley|first1=Robert D.|last2=Tallerman|first2=Maggie|last3=Willis|first3=David|date=2007-10-18|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9781139467513|language=en}}
- Tallerman, Maggie. VSO word order and consonantal mutation in Welsh. Linguistics 1990, 28, 389–416.
Memberships
References
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External links
- {{google scholar id|jDGxVAQAAAAJ}}
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Category:Linguists from the United Kingdom
Category:British women linguists
Category:Academics of Newcastle University
Category:Alumni of the University of Hull
Category:Academics of Durham University
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