Maggie Tallerman


Maggie Tallerman is a professor of linguistics at Newcastle University. Her research interests include Celtic linguistics, language origins and evolution, 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. in 1979 in linguistics, also at the University of Hull.

Career

Tallerman has previously held positions at the University of Durham, Department of Linguistics, as Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Reader.
Tallerman's research interests include Celtic linguistics, language origins and evolution. Her particular interests include Brythonic Celtic and Language Evolution.

Publications

Her works include: