Background

My surgery/consultation and feedback (office) hours for Semester 1, 2019-2020 are:

Wed 14:00-15:00

Thursday 11:00-12:00

Thursday 13:00-14:00

Please note that Monday is my dedicated research day.

**PLEASE see MY PERSONAL WEBSITE: ---> **

http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/joel.wallenberg/index.html

Research

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; the place of variation in the grammar, and the neuroscientific implications; language and gender, and the biological component of continuous gender identity.

Also: 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:**

https://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/joel.wallenberg/research.html

Teaching

SEL1007 Nature of Language

SEL2212 Topics in the History of English

SEL3046 Topics in Comparative Syntax 

SEL8116 English Sentence Structure (general introduction to generative syntax)

SEL8028 Issues in Syntax 

SEL8500 Research Methods in Language and Linguistics

 

Publications

• Wallenberg JC. A variational theory of specialization in acquisition and diachrony. In: Anne Breitbarth, Miriam Bouzouita, Lieven Danckaert and Melissa Farasyn, ed. The Determinants of Diachronic Stability. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2019, pp.245–262.
• Atkinson BM, Smulders TV, Wallenberg JC. An Endocrine Basis for Tomboy Identity: the second-to-fourth digit ratio (2D:4D) in "tomboys". Psychoneuroendocrinology 2017, 79, 9-12.
• Wallenberg JC. Syntactic Change and Stability: diachronic predictions of antisymmetry in English, Yiddish, and Icelandic. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Submitted.
• Wallenberg JC. Extraposition is disappearing. Language 2016, 92(4), e237-e256.
• Fruehwald J, Wallenberg JC. A Unified Theory of Categorical Linguistic Variation and Change. Lingua 2015. In Preparation.
• 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, UK: Oxford University Press, 2015, pp.336-349.
• Light C, Wallenberg JC. On the use of passives across Germanic. English Language and Linguistics 2015. In Press.
• Light C, Wallenberg J. The expression of impersonals in Middle English. English Language and Linguistics 2015, 19(2), 227-245.
• Ingason AK, Loftsson H, Rognvaldsson E, Sigurdsson EF, Wallenberg J. Rapid Deployment of Phrase Structure Parsing for Related Languages: A Case Study of Insular Scandinavian. In: Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC ’14). 2014, Reykjavik, Iceland.
• Heycock C, Wallenberg J. How variational acquisition drives syntactic change. In: 27th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop. 2013, Connecticut, U.S.A: Springer Netherlands.
• Heycock C, Wallenberg J. How variational acquisition drives syntactic change: The loss of verb movement in Scandinavian. Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics 2013, 16(2-3), 127-157.
• Wallenberg JC. Scrambling, LF, and phrase structure change in Yiddish. Lingua 2013, 133, 289-318.
• 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.
• 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, Sigurðsson 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.