David Willis

1.5k total citations
29 papers, 340 citations indexed

About

David Willis is a scholar working on Language and Linguistics, Linguistics and Language and Aerospace Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, David Willis has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 340 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Language and Linguistics, 16 papers in Linguistics and Language and 4 papers in Aerospace Engineering. Recurrent topics in David Willis's work include Linguistic Variation and Morphology (16 papers), Linguistics and language evolution (12 papers) and Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (9 papers). David Willis is often cited by papers focused on Linguistic Variation and Morphology (16 papers), Linguistics and language evolution (12 papers) and Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (9 papers). David Willis collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Ireland. David Willis's co-authors include Maggie Tallerman, Robert D. Borsley, Christopher J. Lucas, J. Peraire, Anne Breitbarth, Per‐Olof Persson, Emily Israeli, Sharon M. Swartz, Kenneth Breuer and Jacob White and has published in prestigious journals such as Lingua, Linguistics and Journal of Linguistics.

In The Last Decade

David Willis

27 papers receiving 293 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
David Willis United Kingdom 11 257 160 66 37 36 29 340
Jochen Zeller South Africa 12 382 1.5× 243 1.5× 105 1.6× 2 0.1× 92 2.6× 38 464
Juan Romero Spain 8 236 0.9× 95 0.6× 43 0.7× 71 2.0× 15 277
Eric Potsdam United States 12 600 2.3× 215 1.3× 228 3.5× 5 0.1× 159 4.4× 37 653
Cynthia L. Allen Australia 7 224 0.9× 156 1.0× 50 0.8× 38 1.1× 24 270
Winfried Lechner Germany 7 221 0.9× 72 0.5× 96 1.5× 2 0.1× 56 1.6× 11 254
Kersti Börjars United Kingdom 11 237 0.9× 106 0.7× 112 1.7× 76 2.1× 42 281
Hans Bennis Netherlands 10 271 1.1× 158 1.0× 135 2.0× 69 1.9× 33 306
Jeff Good United States 10 197 0.8× 190 1.2× 106 1.6× 71 2.0× 48 331
K. A. Jayaseelan India 11 289 1.1× 119 0.7× 106 1.6× 86 2.4× 19 311
Carol Georgopoulos United States 7 188 0.7× 77 0.5× 87 1.3× 41 1.1× 10 208

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Fields of papers citing papers by David Willis

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Willis

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Haslett, Simon K. & David Willis. (2022). The ‘lost’ islands of Cardigan Bay, Wales, UK: insights into the post-glacial evolution of some Celtic coasts of northwest Europe. ResearchSPAce (Bath Spa University). 58. 131–146. 1 indexed citations
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Breitbarth, Anne, Christopher J. Lucas, & David Willis. (2020). The History of Negation in the Languages of Europe and the Mediterranean. Volume II: Patterns and Processes. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 6 indexed citations
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Willis, David. (2020). Using social-media data to investigate morphosyntactic variation and dialect syntax in a lesser-used language: Two case studies from Welsh. Glossa a journal of general linguistics. 5(1). 4 indexed citations
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Willis, David, et al.. (2016). The rise and fall of a minor category. 6(2). 297–339. 5 indexed citations
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Willis, David, Christopher J. Lucas, & Anne Breitbarth. (2013). The History of Negation in the Languages of Europe and the Mediterranean: Volume I Case Studies. 4 indexed citations
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Lucas, Christopher J. & David Willis. (2012). Never again: the multiple grammaticalization ofneveras a marker of negation in English. English Language and Linguistics. 16(3). 459–485. 15 indexed citations
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Willis, David. (2012). Enriched Basis Functions for Automatically Handling Wake-Body Intersections in Source-Doublet-Potential Panel Methods. 50th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting including the New Horizons Forum and Aerospace Exposition. 2 indexed citations
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Willis, David. (2010). Reconstructing last week's weather: Syntactic reconstruction and Brythonic free relatives. Journal of Linguistics. 47(2). 407–446. 15 indexed citations
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Persson, Per‐Olof, David Willis, & J. Peraire. (2010). The Numerical Simulation of Flapping Wings at Low Reynolds Numbers. 48th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting Including the New Horizons Forum and Aerospace Exposition. 24 indexed citations
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Willis, David. (2010). Motivating the emergence of new markers of sentential negation. Diachronica. 27(1). 110–156. 9 indexed citations
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Willis, David. (2007). Syntactic lexicalization as a new type of degrammaticalization. Linguistics. 45(2). 27 indexed citations
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Willis, David. (2007). Specifier‐to‐head reanalyses in the complementizer domain: evidence from Welsh. Transactions of the Philological Society. 105(3). 432–480. 14 indexed citations
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Borsley, Robert D., Maggie Tallerman, & David Willis. (2007). The Syntax of Welsh. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 62 indexed citations
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Willis, David. (2005). Against N-raising and NP-raising analyses of Welsh noun phrases. Lingua. 116(11). 1807–1839. 17 indexed citations
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Willis, David. (2000). On the distribution of resumptive pronouns and wh-trace in Welsh. Journal of Linguistics. 36(3). 531–573. 29 indexed citations
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Willis, David. (1998). Voice over IP, the way it should be. 10(1). 96–99. 2 indexed citations
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Willis, David. (1965). From Critique to Construction. Theology Today. 22(2). 172–173. 1 indexed citations
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Wilkes, M. V. & David Willis. (1956). A magnetic-tape auxiliary storage system for the Edsac. ˜The œproceedings of the Institution of Electrical Engineers. Part B, Radio and electronic engineering, including communication engineering. 103(2S). 337–345. 1 indexed citations

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