Endangered complexity: inflectional classes in Oto-Manguean languages

Period of award: March 2012 to February 2015
Grant : AHRC & ESRC
Investigators: Dunstan Brown (York), Matthew Baerman, Greville Corbett
Researcher: Enrique Palancar

From competing theories to fieldwork: the challenge of an extreme agreement system

Period of award: January 2012 to December 2014
Grant: £489,037 (AHRC)
Investigators: Dunstan Brown (York), Bob Borsley (Essex), Greville Corbett, Maria Polinsky (Harvard), Louisa Sadler (Essex). Researcher: Marina Chumakina

SENĆOŦEN on the web: access for linguists and community

Period of award: Jan 2011 to July 2011
Grant: £7458 (BA)
Investigators: Greville Corbett, Dunstan Brown, Claire Turner

Alor-pantar languages: origins and theoretical impact (ALOR-PANTAR)

Period of award: October 2009 to September 2012
Grant: AHRC (European Science Foundation-EuroBabel) 
Investigators: Greville Corbett, Matthew Baerman, Dunstan Brown
Postdoc: Sebastian Fedden

The corpus of Russian regional dialects - acoustic database with discourse annotation

Grant: Ruhr - Universitat Bochum
Period of award: October 2009 to August 2011
Investigators: Greville Corbett, Alexander Krasovitsky, Christian Sappok (Ruhr Universitat Bochum)

Morphological complexity: typology as a tool for delineating cognitive organization

Period of award: Feb 2009 - Jan 2014
Grant: €1,712,538 (ERC)
Investigators: Greville G. Corbett, Matthew Baerman, Dunstan Brown (York)

Brighter, cleverer, but more intelligent: understanding periphrasis

Period of award: Nov 2007 - Oct 2010
Grant: £316,725 (ESRC)
Investigators: Greville G. Corbett, Dunstan Brown
Researcher: Marina Chumakina

A typology of defectiveness

Period of award: Sept 2006-Feb 2009
Grant: £227,486 (AHRC)
Investigators: Greville G. Corbett, Matthew Baerman, Dunstan Brown

Turning owners into actors: Possessive morphology as subject-indexing in languages of the Bougainville region

Period of award: Feb 2005-Feb 2008
Grant: £238,569 (AHRC)
Investigators: Greville G. Corbett, Dunstan Brown
Researcher: Bill Palmer
Evaluated as 'outstanding'

Short term morphosyntactic change

Period of award: Sept 2004-May 2008
Grant: £199,279 (AHRC)
Investigators: Greville G. Corbett, Matthew Baerman, Dunstan Brown
Researcher: Alexander Krasovitsky
Doctoral student: Alison Long
Evaluated as 'outstanding'

Dictionary of Archi (Daghestanian) with sound files and cultural materials

Period of award: Feb 2004 - July 2007
Grant: £111,260 (Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project)
Investigators: Greville G. Corbett
Researcher: Marina Chumakina
Consultants: Aleksandr Kibrik, Sandro Kodzasov, Dzhalil Samedov, Dunstan Brown, Nicholas Evans, Peter Lutzeier, Harley Quilliam

Grammatical Features: A Key to Understanding Language

Period of award: Nov 2004 - Oct 2007
Grant: £394,237 (ESRC)
Investigators: Greville Corbett
Researchers: Greville Corbett, Anna Kibort
Evaluated as 'outstanding'

Essential documentation of seven highly endangered Oceanic languages

Period of award: Jul 2006 - July 2007
Grant: £17357 (British Academy)
Investigators: Bill Palmer
Researchers: Claire Turner

Extended deponency: the right morphology in the wrong place

Period of award: 2004-2006
Grant: £142,746 (ESRC)
Investigators: Greville Corbett, Matthew Baerman, Dunstan Brown
Researcher: Matthew Baerman
Evaluated as 'outstanding'

'Possible words': the outer bounds of inflectional morphology

Period of award: July 2002-June 2004
Grant: £148,031 (ESRC)
Investigators: Greville Corbett
Researchers: Greville Corbett
Evaluated as 'outstanding'

Paradigms in Use

Period of award: Jan 2003-Dec 2005
Grant: £98,512.64 (ESRC)
Investigators: Dunstan Brown, Greville Corbett, Trevor Sweeting and Carole Tiberius
Researchers: Carole Tiberius and Peter Williams (Statistics)
Evaluated as 'good'

The notion 'possible word' and its limits: a typology of suppletion

Period of award: 2000 - 2003
Grant: £108,838 (AHRB)
Investigators: Greville G. Corbett, Dunstan Brown, Andrew Hippisley
Researcher: Marina Chumakina

Agreement: an investigation into the distribution of information

Period of award: 1999-2002
Grant: £118,456 (ESRC)
Investigators: Greville G. Corbett, Dunstan Brown, Andrew Hippisley
Researchers: Julia Barron (till Aug 2000), Carole Tiberius (from Nov 2000)
Evaluated as 'outstanding'

A typology of syncretism

Period of award: 1999-2002
Grant: £105,505 (ESRC)
Investigators: Greville G. Corbett, Dunstan Brown
Researcher: Matthew Baerman
Evaluated as 'outstanding'

Predicting the past: reconstructing the Slavonic colour lexicon

Period of award: 1998-2000
Grant: £86,000 (ESRC)
Investigators: Greville G. Corbett, Ian Davies, Andrew Hippisley
Researcher: Andrew Hippisley
Evaluated as 'outstanding'

Number use in language: a quantitative and typological investigation

Period of award: 1997-1998
Grant: £40,661 (ESRC)
Investigators: Greville G. Corbett, Dunstan Brown, Andrew Hippisley, Paul Marriott
Researcher: Andrew Hippisley
Completed and evaluated as 'outstanding'

Feature-based Approaches to Exceptional Cases in Russian

Period of award: 1997-98
Grant: £1,000 (British Council) & NOK 11,000 (Research Council of Norway)
Applicants: Dunstan Brown and Tore Nesset
Participating institutions: Surrey and Tromsø

Challenges for inflectional Description

Period of award: 1997-98
Grant: £12,834 (ESRC Research Seminar)
Coordinator: Greville G. Corbett
Participating institutions: Surrey, Brighton, Essex, Sussex and SOAS

The theory of Network Morphology

Period of award: 1995-98
Grant: £106,000 (ESRC)
Investigators: Greville G. Corbett, Dunstan Brown, Norman M. Fraser
Researcher: Dunstan Brown
Evaluated as 'outstanding'

Russian Verbal Morphology: Alternative Perspectives and Implementations

Period of award: 1995-1997
Grant: £3,300 (British Counci & DAAD)
Coordinators: Greville G. Corbett and Dieter Wunderlich
Participating institutions: Düsseldorf, Surrey and Sussex

Frontiers of Research in Morphology

Period of award: 1995-96
Grant: £9098 (ESRC Research Seminar)
Coordinator: Greville G. Corbett
Participating institutions: Surrey, Brighton, Essex, Sussex and SOAS

A DATR Theory of Russian Morphology

Period of award: 1992-95
Grant: £60,500 (ESRC)
Investigators: Greville G. Corbett, Norman M. Fraser
Researcher: Dunstan Brown

A Computer Implementation of Russian Derivational Morphology

Period of award: 1992-95
Grant: £62,000 (Leverhulme Trust)