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Professor David Willis – Tweetolectology: Using Social Media to Map Linguistic Variation and Change
4th May 2023 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
David Willis has been Jesus Professor of Celtic at the University of Oxford since 2020, having previously held academic appointments at the Universities of Manchester and Cambridge. He has published widely on grammatical change and the history of the Welsh language. His books include The Syntax of Welsh and the two-volume History of Negation in the Languages of Europe and the Mediterranean. He is currently preparing A History of Welsh for publication by Oxford University Press.
https://www.jesus.ox.ac.uk/about-jesus-college/our-community/people/professor-david-willis/