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David Willis

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12

Publications

708

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12

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2000

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Affiliations

University of Cambridge(Current)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

David Willis is an author at University of Cambridge specializing in linguistics, syntax, and language studies.

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SyntaxLanguageLinguisticsGrammarHistorical LinguisticsPragmaticsRomance LanguagesArtsPhonologyEngineering

Publications per year

2000–2020

12

Publications

12

Syntactic lexicalization as a new type of degrammaticalization

David Willis · Linguistics · 2007 · 204 citations

Applied Linguistics, New Items, Syntax +14

On the distribution of resumptive pronouns and <i>wh</i>-trace in Welsh

David Willis · Journal of Linguistics · 2000 · 103 citations

Relative Clauses, Welsh Evidence, Morphology (Linguistics) +20

Specifier‐to‐head reanalyses in the complementizer domain: evidence from Welsh

David Willis · Transactions of the Philological Society · 2007 · 101 citations · Full text

Affirmative Main‐clause Complementizer, Morphology (Linguistics), Syntactic Structure +18

Never again: the multiple grammaticalization of<i>never</i>as a marker of negation in English

Christopher J. Lucas, David Willis · English Language and Linguistics · 2012 · 51 citations

Philosophy Of Language, Syntax, Nonstandard Varieties +15

Pragmatic differentiation of negative markers in the early stages of Jespersen’s cycle in North Germanic

Tamsin Blaxter, David Willis · Diachronica · 2018 · 50 citations · Full text

Spoken French, Negative Concord, Linguistic Theory +21

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