Greville G. Corbett (born 23 December 1947[1]) is Distinguished Professor of Linguistics at the
University of Surrey and founder member of the Surrey Morphology Group.
Typology. He works on the typology of features, as in Gender (1991), Number (2000), Agreement (2006) and Features (2012), all with
Cambridge University Press. Recently, with several colleagues, he has been developing the canonical approach to typology. Within that approach he has papers in Language, on suppletion (2007)
[1] and on lexical splits (2015). [3] For some years he has been developing the
Canonical Typology framework,[4] which has expanded beyond its original heartland of morphology and syntax to include work in phonology and sign language.
Morphosyntactic features. Number, gender, person and case all offer interesting challenges.
Inflectional Morphology (especially
Network Morphology)[5] the
European Research Council funded project Morphological Complexity [6] which examined the ways in which morphological structure introduces complexity which has no apparent function outside this component. Corbett's resulting research on the typology of splits in paradigms has appeared in Language.[7] His most recent work is on conditions on inflection, the generalizations which cross-cut the generalizations provided by inflection classes, and concerned with the practical issue of how inflectional material is represented in a transparent and comprehensible way.
Published works
Corbett, Greville G. (1991). Gender. Cambridge University Press.
ISBN978-0-521-32939-2.
Comrie, Bernard; —— (1993). The Slavonic Languages. Routledge.
ISBN978-0-415-04755-5.
Greville G. Corbett (born 23 December 1947[1]) is Distinguished Professor of Linguistics at the
University of Surrey and founder member of the Surrey Morphology Group.
Typology. He works on the typology of features, as in Gender (1991), Number (2000), Agreement (2006) and Features (2012), all with
Cambridge University Press. Recently, with several colleagues, he has been developing the canonical approach to typology. Within that approach he has papers in Language, on suppletion (2007)
[1] and on lexical splits (2015). [3] For some years he has been developing the
Canonical Typology framework,[4] which has expanded beyond its original heartland of morphology and syntax to include work in phonology and sign language.
Morphosyntactic features. Number, gender, person and case all offer interesting challenges.
Inflectional Morphology (especially
Network Morphology)[5] the
European Research Council funded project Morphological Complexity [6] which examined the ways in which morphological structure introduces complexity which has no apparent function outside this component. Corbett's resulting research on the typology of splits in paradigms has appeared in Language.[7] His most recent work is on conditions on inflection, the generalizations which cross-cut the generalizations provided by inflection classes, and concerned with the practical issue of how inflectional material is represented in a transparent and comprehensible way.
Published works
Corbett, Greville G. (1991). Gender. Cambridge University Press.
ISBN978-0-521-32939-2.
Comrie, Bernard; —— (1993). The Slavonic Languages. Routledge.
ISBN978-0-415-04755-5.