Biography

Greville Corbett is a member of the Surrey Morphology Group.

Research Interests

• typology
• morphology (especially Network Morphology)
• morphosyntactic features
• the Slavonic language family especially Russian
• colour terms (joint work with Ian Davies, Psychology)

Publications

2011. Higher order exceptionality in inflectional morphology. In: Horst J. Simon & Heike Wiese (eds) Expecting the unexpected: Exceptions in grammar. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. [With comments by Stephen Anderson.] 107-137. [pdf of preprint]

2010.  Canonical derivational morphology. Word Structure 3.141-155.[pdf]

2010. Features: essential notions. In: Anna Kibort and Greville G. Corbett (eds) Features: perspectives on a key notion in linguistics, 17-36. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [pdf of draft]

2010. Implicational hierarchies. In: Jae Jung Song (ed.) The Handbook of Language Typology, 190-205. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [pdf of preprint]

2010. The penumbra of morphosyntactic feature systems. In: Jonathan Bobaljik, Uli Sauerland & Andrew Nevins (eds) Markedness in the Morphosemantics of φ-Features (special issue of Morphology). [pdf of preprint]

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] ( Adobe Reader)

2006. Agreement: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Link to publisher's site]

2005. (with Matthew Baerman 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