Professor Greville G. Corbett
Distinguished Professor of Linguistics
BA, MA, PhD (University of Birmingham)
FBA, AcSS
Greville Corbett is a member of the Surrey Morphology Group.
Research Interests
- typology
- morphology (especially Network Morphology)
- morphosyntactic features
- colour terms (joint work with Ian Davies, Psychology)
- the Slavonic language family especially Russian
Major Publications
2008: (with Michael Noonan) (editors). Case and grammatical relations: papers in honor of Bernard Comrie (Typological Studies in Language 81). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. ix + 290pp. [Link to publisher's site]
2007. Canonical typology, suppletion and possible words. Language 83.8-42. [pdf of preprint]
2006. Agreement: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Link to publisher's site]
2005. (with Matthew Berman and Dunstan Brown) The Syntax-Morphology Interface: A Study of Syncretism: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [pdf of excerpt]
2004. The Russian Adjective: a pervasive yet elusive category. In: RMW Dixon and Alexandra Y Aikhenvald (editors) Adjective classes: a cross linguistic typology, 199-222. Oxford: Oxford university Press. [pdf]
2003. Agreement: The range of the phenomenon and the principles of the Surrey Database of Agreement. In: Dunstan Brown, Greville G. Corbett & Carole Tiberius (eds) Agreement: A Typological Perspective (special number of Transactions of the Philological Society 101, no. 2), 155-202. [pdf]
2000. Number. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [pdf of excerpt]
2000. (with Nicholas Evans and Dunstan Brown) The Semantics of gender in Mayali: partially parallel systems and formal implementation. Language 78. 111-155. [pdf]
2000 (with Norman M. Fraser) Gender assignment: a typology and a model. In: Gunter Senft (ed.) Systems of Nominal Classification (Language, Culture and Cognition 4), 293-325. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
1999. (editor) Agreement (Special issue of Folia Linguistica XXXIII/2).
1999 (with Marianne Mithun) The effect of noun incorporation on argument structure. In: Lunella Mereu (ed.) Boundaries of morphology and syntax (Series: Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 180), 49-71. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
1993. (with Bernard Comrie) (editors) The Slavonic Languages. London: Routledge. [Link to publisher's site]
1993. (with Norman M. Fraser and Scott McGlashan) (editors) Heads in Grammatical Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [pdf of excerpt]
1991. Gender. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, xix + 363 pp. [pdf of excerpt]
1987. The morphology/syntax interface: evidence from possessive adjectives in Slavonic. Language, 63, no. 2, 299-345. [pdf]
For a full list of publications see here
g.corbett@surrey.ac.uk
