Newcastle University

My surgery/office hours for Semester 1 are:

Tuesday, 9am-10

Wednesday, 3:30pm-4:30

Thursday, 4pm-5 

Please note that Monday is my dedicated research day.

Personal Website: http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~joelcw/ 

My research interests, in very short form, are the following:

The theory of language change, with particular emphasis on the quantitative study of morphosyntactic change and the relationship between language acquisition and change; syntactic variation and change in Germanic, particularly historical English and Icelandic.  Syntactic theory in general, especially scrambling and linearization.  I am also generally interested in showing how quantitative and sociolinguistic studies of variation and change bear on issues of linguistic theory.

Please see the list of downloadable paper and presentations on my personal website's Research page, at:

http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~joelcw/research.html 

SEL1007 Nature of Language

SEL3046 English Grammar through Time

SEL8500 Research Methods in Language and Linguistics

• Wallenberg JC. Antisymmetry and Heavy NP Shift Across Germanic. In: Biberauer, T., Walkden, G, ed. Syntax over Time: Lexical, Morphological and Information-Structural Interactions. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. In Press.
• Heycock C, Wallenberg J. How Variational Acquisition Drives Syntactic Change: the loss of verb movement in Scandinavian. Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics 2013. In Press.
• Wallenberg JC. Scrambling, LF, and Phrase Structure Change in Yiddish. Lingua 2013. In Press.
• Wallenberg JC. Language Acquisition in German and Phrase Structure Change in Yiddish. In: Galvez, C., Cyrino, S., Lopes, R., Sandalo, F., Avelar, J, ed. Parameter Theory and Linguistic Change. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012, pp.60-76.
• Wallenberg JC. Syntactic Change and Stability: diachronic predictions of antisymmetry in English, Yiddish, and Icelandic. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Submitted.
• Wagner S, Wallenberg JC. Translation effects on V2 word order in a conservative Middle English dialect. English Language and Linguistics 2012. Submitted.
• Rögnvaldsson E, Ingason AK, Sigurdsson E, Wallenberg JC. Creating a Dual-Purpose Treebank. Journal for Language Technology and Computational Linguistics 2011, 26(2), 141-152.
• Wallenberg JC, Ingason AK, Sigurdsson EF, Rognvaldsson E. Icelandic Parsed Historical Corpus (IcePaHC). 2011. University of Iceland, 1 million words.
• Fruewald J, Gress-Wright J, Wallenberg JC. Phonological Rule Change: The Constant Rate Effect. In: 40th Meeting of the Northeast Linguistic Society (NELS). 2009, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.
• Dredze M, Wallenberg JC. Further Results and Analysis of Icelandic Part of Speech Tagging. Technical Report MS-CIS-08-13. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA: Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania, 2008. Department of Computer and Information Science Technical Report Series MS-CIS-08-13.
• Dredze M, Wallenberg JC. Icelandic Data Driven Part of Speech Tagging. In: 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computation Linguistics (ACL). 2008, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
• Wallenberg JC. English Weak Pronouns and Object Shift. In: 26th West Coast Conference in Formal Linguistics (WCCFL). 2007, University of California, Berkeley: Cascadilla Press.
• Wallenberg JC. Formal linguistics meets the Boojum: metrical variation in Lewis Carroll’s verse. In: 31st Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistic Society (BLS). 2005, University of California, Berkeley.
• Wallenberg JC. The Story of the American –self: a case study in morphological variation. In: 28th Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium. 2005, Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania.