Bill Haddican
York Linguistics
Teaching Papers Other Projects

Department of Language and Linguistic Science
University of York Heslington, York
YO10 4DD
wh506 [at] york.ac.uk
+44 01904 432670


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  Introduction
I am a lecturer in language variation and change in the Department of Language and Linguistic Science at the University of York. My research focuses on language change, syntax and language contact in Basque and English dialects.

  Teaching
L120 Elementary Sociolinguistics, 2008-9. VLE
E/L323 Methods in Language Variation and Change, 2008-9. VLE
Language Variation and Change 2008 (MA/MSC Course).VLE

  Papers
(to appear). Theme-Goal Ditransitives and Theme Passivisation in British English Dialects.

(Substantially) revised version to appear in Lingua.

(to appear). Formalising syntactic variability: Context and issues. (with B. Plunkett) To appear in Lingua.

(to appear). The British Isles. (with J. Stuart-Smith). In Sociolinguistics Around the World: A Handbook. Ed. by M. Ball and N. Muller. .

(to appear). A note on Basque participles. To appear in a festschrift.
(2008) Mid Vowel Raising and Second Vowel Deletion in Oiartzun Basque. (With P. Foulkes). In Gramatika Jaietan Patxi Goenagaren Omenez, Ed. by X. Artiagoitia and J. Lakarra.

(2007) Euskal perpausaren oinarrizko espez-buru-osagarri hurrenkeraren aldeko argudio batzuk (Some arguments for an underlying spec-head-complement order for the Basque Clause.) In Antisimetriaren Hipotesia vs Buru Parametroa: euskararen hitz hurrenkera ezbaian (ed.) X. Artiagoitia and A. Elordieta. Gasteiz: U. of the Basque Country."

(2007). On Egin: Do-support in Basque. (Revised version to appear in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory).
(2007). Suburbanization and Language Change in Basque. Revised version to appear in Language in Society.
(2006). The Structural Deficiency of Verbal Pro-forms. York Papers in Linguistics. (Revised version to appear in Linguistic Inquiry.)
(2005). Aspects of Language Variation and Change in Contemporary Basque, NYU Dissertation.
(2005). Two Kinds of Restructuring Infinitives in Basque, Proceedings of WCCFL 24 (pre-publication draft).
(2005). On Egin: Do-Support And Verb Focalization In Central And Western Basque, Penn Working Papers in Linguistics. Proceedings of PLC 29.
(2005). Standardization and Language Change in Basque, Penn Working Papers in Linguistics. Selected papers from NWAV 33.
(2005). On verb focalization in Central and Western Basque. Proceedings of Bilbao-Deusto Student Conference in Linguistics, Supplements of International Journal of Basque Linguistics and Philology.
(2005). Standardization, Functional Shift and Language Change in Basque, Estudios de Sociolinguistica, 5(2).
(2004). Affirmation and Weak Islands, Snippets, 9:9-10.
(2004). Sentence Polarity and Word Order in Basque, The Linguistic Review, 21(2):81-124.
(2004). Conjunction Meets Negation: A Study in Cross-linguistic Variation,(with Anna Szabolcsi) Journal of Semantics, 21(3): 219-249.
(2003). Dialect Contact in a Southern Basque Town, Language Variation and Change, 15(1):1-35.
(2001). Basque Functional Heads, Linguistics in the Big Apple Working Papers in Linguisics.
(1997). Políticas de recuperación lingüística en Irlanda (1922-1939) y el País Vasco (1980-1992), (Book review), Inguruak (Journal of Basque Sociology), 19:196-199.
 
  Other Projects
Formal Approaches to Variation in Syntax
Sociolinguistics Archive
Oiartzueraz idatzitako testu zahar batzuk (XIX eta XX mendekoak).(19th and early 20th century texts in Oiartzun Basque).

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