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Professor Greville Corbett FBA

Linguistics, especially typology and morphology
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
1997
Subjects
Linguistics
Sections
Linguistics and Philology
Website
https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/greville-corbett

Current post

Distinguished Professor of Linguistics, University of Surrey

Past appointments

University of Surrey Lecturer, Reader in Russian, Professor then Foundation Research Professor of Linguistics and of Russian Language

1970 -

University of Surrey Distinguished Professor of Linguistics and of Russian Language, University of Surrey

1970 -

Publications

Features 2012

Gender 1991

The Slavonic languages 1993

Number 2000

Agreement 2006

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