Dr George Walkden

Honorary Research Fellow

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Biography

I am an Honorary Research Fellow at Manchester as well as Professor of English Linguistics and General Linguistics at the University of Konstanz, Germany. I was Lecturer in English Linguistics at Manchester between 2012 and 2017.

I studied Modern & Medieval Languages (German & French) as an undergraduate at the University of Cambridge, then took the MPhil and PhD in Linguistics there, supervised by David Willis. My PhD was on reconstruction of aspects of the clausal syntax of Proto-Germanic.

I am also the editor of Journal of Historical Syntax.

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Publication highlights

Syntactic reconstruction and Proto-Germanic

Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review

Syntax over time: Lexical, morphological and information-structural interactions

Research output: Book/Report › Scholarly edition › peer-review

Proceedings of the Sixth Cambridge Postgraduate Conference in Language Research

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

The HeliPaD: A parsed corpus of Old Saxon

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Language contact and V3 in Germanic varieties new and old

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Null subjects in Middle English

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

On constructing a theory of grammatical change

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

The status of hwæt in old English

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Null subjects in Old English

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

The correspondence problem in syntactic reconstruction

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Against inertia

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Deriving the Final-over-Final Constraint from third factor considerations

Research output: Working paper

Object position and Heavy NP Shift in Old Saxon and beyond

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

Verb-third in early West Germanic: A comparative perspective

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

Abduction or Inertia? The logic of syntactic change

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Syntactic reconstruction and Proto-Germanic

Research output: Thesis › Doctoral Thesis

The comparative method in syntactic reconstruction

Research output: Thesis › Master's Thesis

vP-fronting with and without remnant movement

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

The actuation problem

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

Deriving the Constant Rate Effect

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Regional variation in Jespersen’s Cycle in Early Middle English

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

English is (still) a West Germanic language

Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

Null Subjects in Early Icelandic

Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

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Student Theses

Individual and population in language change: mathematical explorations of the acquisition-use loop

UoM administered thesis: Phd

The Welsh impersonal construction

UoM administered thesis: Phd

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