Professor Greville Corbett FBA

Linguistics, especially typology and morphology
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
1997
Subjects
Linguistics

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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Professor Adam Ledgeway FBA

The comparative history and morphosyntax of the Romance languages; Italian and Romance dialectology; Latin; Italo-Greek; syntactic theory, linguistic change and language contact

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Professor Mary Dalrymple FBA

Descriptive and theoretical syntax and semantics; language documentation; Austronesian and Papuan languages; grammatical analysis within the theory of Lexical Functional Grammar

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Professor Paul Kiparsky FBA

Phonology, morphology, historical linguistics, metrics, and the Sanskrit grammatical tradition. The relation between word structure and sentence structure, and the principles governing language change.

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