Maggie Tallerman is a professor of

linguistics Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure. Linguis ...

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

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

language typology Linguistic typology (or language typology) is a field of linguistics that studies and classifies languages according to their structural features to allow their comparison. Its aim is to describe and explain the structural diversity and the co ...

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, how they are formed, and their relationship to other words in the same language. It analyzes the structure of words and parts of words such as stems, root words, prefixes, and suffixes. Morph ...

. She is a leading expert in the fields of

language evolution Evolutionary linguistics or Darwinian linguistics is a sociobiological approach to the study of language. Evolutionary linguists consider linguistics as a subfield of sociobiology and evolutionary psychology. The approach is also closely linked ...

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 ( constituency) ...

of the

Welsh language Welsh ( or ) is a Celtic language family, Celtic language of the Brittonic languages, Brittonic subgroup that is native to the Welsh people. Welsh is spoken natively in Wales, by some in England, and in Y Wladfa (the Welsh colony in Chubut P ...

Education

Tallerman gained her PhD from the

University of Hull The University of Hull is a public research university in Kingston upon Hull, a city in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It was founded in 1927 as University College Hull. The main university campus is located in Hull and is home to the 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.

Career

Tallerman has previously held positions at the

University of Durham Durham University (legally the University of Durham) is a collegiate university, collegiate public university, public research university in Durham, England, Durham, England, founded by an Act of Parliament in 1832 and incorporated by royal charte ...

, 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 Routledge. * 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 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