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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

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor David Willis FBA

Syntactic variation and change; historical linguistics and digital humanities; linguistics of the Celtic languages, especially Welsh; historical syntax of the Slavonic languages and of English

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Professor Elena Lieven FBA

Children’s language development: the emergence and construction of grammar in typologically different languages; the relationship between input and the process of language development; variation in children’s communicative and linguistic environments.

Elena Lieven FBA

Professor Matthew Baerman FBA

Morphology, especially unusual or theoretically challenging inflectional systems. West Nilotic languages, Seri (isolate), and Slavic languages

Professor Matthew Baerman FBA

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