Dr Matthew Baerman

Biography

Research Fellow in the Surrey Morphology Group. Currently working on the ERC funded project Morphological Complexity. See also Academia.edu page.

Employed since 1999 as Research Fellow in the Surrey Morphology Group, University of Surrey.

Publications

Forthcoming. Covert order in a distributionally complex system. To appear in Journal of Linguistics.

Forthcoming. Historical development of Slavic inflectional accent. In: P. Kosta, K. Gutschmidt, S. Kempgen and T. Berger (eds) Slavic Languages (Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

2012. Paradigmatic chaos in Nuer. Language 88/3. 467-494.

2012. (with G. G. Corbett) Stem alternations and multiple exponence. Word Structure 5/1. 52–68.

2011. Defectiveness and homophony avoidance. Journal of Linguistics 47/1. 1-29.

2010. (with G. G. Corbett & D. Brown). Defective paradigms (Proceedings of the British Academy 145). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2010. Defectiveness: typology and diachrony. In Baerman, Brown and Corbett (2010). 1-18.

2009. The diachrony of defectiveness. In Chicago Linguistic Society 43/2. 251-265.

2009. Case syncretism. In: A. Spencer and A. Malchukov (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Case. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2008. (with A.Krasovitsky, A. Long, D. Brown and G. G. Corbett). Predicate nouns in Russian. Russian Linguistics 32/2. 99-113.

2008. Historical observations on defectiveness: the first singular non-past. Russian Linguistics 32/1. 81-97.

2007. (with G. G. Corbett, D. Brown and A. Hippisley, eds). Deponency and morphological mismatches (Proceedings of the British Academy 145). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2007. Morphological typology of deponency. In: Baerman, Corbett, Brown and Hippisley (2007). 1-19.

2007. Syncretism. Language and Linguistics Compass 1.

2007. (with G. Corbett). Linguistic typology: Morphology. Linguistic Typology 11/1. 3-5.

2007. Morphological reversals. Journal of Linguistics 43.1. 33-51.

2006. (with G. Corbett). Prolegomena to a typology of morphological features. Morphology 16/2. 231-246.

2005. (with D. Brown and G. Corbett). The syntax-morphology interface: a study of syncretism (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics 109). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

2005. (with D. Brown). Case syncretism. In: M. Haspelmath, M. Dryer, D. Gil and B. Comrie (eds) World atlas of language structures. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 118-121.

2005. (with D. Brown). Verbal person/number syncretism. In: M. Haspelmath, M. Dryer, D. Gil and B. Comrie (eds) World atlas of language structures. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 122-125.

2005. Typology and the formal modelling of syncretism. In: G. Booij and J. van Marle (eds) Yearbook of Morphology 2004. Dordrecht: Kluwer. 41-72.

2005. Syncretism. In: K. Brown (ed.) Encyclopedia of language and linguistics (second edition). Oxford: Elsevier.

2004. Directionality and (un)natural classes in syncretism. Language 80. 807-827.

2004. Post-stressing complementizers in Erkeč (Kozičino). In: R. Alexander and V. Zhobov (eds) Revitalizing Bulgarian dialectology. Berkeley: University of California International & Press Digital Publications.

2002. (with D. Brown and G. Corbett). Case syncretism in and out of Indo-European. In: M. Andronis, C. Ball, H. Elston and S. Neuvel (eds) CLS 37: The Main Session. Papers from the 37th Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, Vol. 1. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society. 15-28.

2002. (with G. Corbett and D. Brown). Domains of syncretism: a demonstration of the autonomy of morphology. In: M. Andronis, C. Ball, H. Elston and S. Neuvel (eds) CLS 37: The Panels. Papers from the 37th Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, Vol. 2. Chicago : Chicago Linguistic Society. 385-398.

2001. Unnatural classes in morphological change. Russian Linguistics 25/2. 281-284.

2001. The prosodic properties of ne in Bulgarian. In: G. Zybatow, U. Junghanns, G. Mehlhorn and L. Szucsich (eds) Current issues in formal Slavic linguistics. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. 59-68.

1999. (with C. Rudin, C. Kramer and L. Billings). Macedonian and Bulgarian li questions: beyond syntax. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 17. 541-586.

1999. The evolution of fixed stress in Slavic. Munich: Lincom Europa.

1998. The evolution of prosodic constraints in Macedonian. Lingua 104/1-2. 57-78.

1998. (with L. Billings). Macedonian clitics and the trisyllabic stress window. In: M. Dimitrova-Vulchanova, L. Hellan, I. Kasabov and I. Krapova (eds) Papers from the Second Conference on Formal Approaches to South Slavic Languages, Sofia , September 1997 (Trondheim Working Papers in Linguistics 31).

Electronic Resources

2009. (with G. Corbett and D. Brown). The Surrey Defectiveness Databases (consisting of a Typological Database and a 100-language Survey).

2006. (with G. Corbett, D. Brown and A. Hippisley). The Surrey Deponency Databases.

2002. Syncretism: an annotated bibliography.

2002. The Surrey Person Syncretism Database.

2002. (with D. Brown and G. Corbett). The Surrey Syncretisms Database.

Conference or workshop presentations

2011. Covert order in Võro conjugation classes. Workshop ‘Complexity and Isolation’, Freiburg (FRIAS), December 8-9.

2011. Realization and implication. 8th Mediterranean Morphology Meeting, Cagliari , September 14-17.

2011. Inflection class interactions: Diachronic and comparative perspectives. International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Osaka, July 25-29.

2011. Inflectional interactions in Oto-Manguean. Invited paper read at the Meso-American Inflectional Morphology meeting, Paris, January 31-February 1.

2010. Inflection class interactions. Keynote paper read at the Décembrettes 7 conference, University of Toulouse, 2-3 December.

2010. Metamorphomes. Workshop "Perspectives on the Morphome", University of Coimbra, 29-30 October 2010.

2010. (with G. G. Corbett). Where is the information in the word? Stems as inflection. Talk given to the Linguistics Program, University of Kentucky, November 17.

2010. (with G. G. Corbett). A typology of inflectional class interaction. 14th International Morphology Meeting, Budapest, Hungary, May 13-16 2010.

2010. (with G. G. Corbett). Stem alternations and multiple exponence. Workshop “Stems in Inflection and Word Formation”, Budapest, Hungary, May 13-14 2010.

2010. (with G. G. Corbett). “Deep irregularity”: when the expected lexical splits follow the wrong pattern. 14th International Morphology Meeting, Budapest, Hungary, May 13-16 2010.

2010. (with S. Collier) Stems in a database of morphological complexity. Workshop “Stems in Inflection and Word Formation”, Budapest, Hungary, May 13-14 2010.

2010. Nuer and Mazatec: why they matter. Speech and Language Group, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, 25 March 2010.

2010. (with G. G. Corbett, D. Brown & S. Collier. Morphological Complexity: introduction. Workshop “Morphological Complexity: Implications for the Theory of Language”, Harvard University, 22 January 2010.

2009. (with D. Brown & G. G. Corbett) Morphological complexity: the view from typology. Centre for Linguistics, Department of Humanities, University of Hamburg, 11 November 2009.

2009 (with D. Brown & G. G. Corbett) Morphological Complexity: a typological perspective. Invited paper at the European Science Foundation Exploratory Workshop on “Words In Action”, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale “Antonio Zampolli” CNR Pisa, 12-13 October 2009.

2009. (with Greville G. Corbett) A typology of inflectional exponence: stems, affixes and what lies between. Mediterranean Morphology Meeting 7. University of Cyprus, Nicosia, 11-12 September 2009.

2009. Inflection classes without allomorphy. Linguistic Association of Great Britain Annual Meeting, University of Edinburgh, 6-9 September 2009.

2009. Inflection classes through profligate syncretism? Invited paper at the ‘Workshop on Polyfunctionality and Underspecification' (convened by the University of Leipzig), Wittenberg, 31 August 31- 1 September 2009.

2009. Paradigmatic opacity in Nuer. ‘Morphology of the World's Languages', University of Leipzig, 11-13 June 2009.

2009. Constraining inflection classes. Southeastern Seminar Series. April 24.

2008. Defectiveness and homophony avoidance. Décembrettes 6: Morphologie et classes flexionnelles, Université de Bordeaux 3, December.

2008. Defectiveness and morphosyntactic deviance. Workshop on Theoretical Morphology, University of Leipzig, June.

2008. Origin and development of defective paradigms. 13th International Morphology Meeting, Vienna, February.

2007. The historic roots of Russian defective verbs. American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages. Chicago, December.

2007. (with G. Corbett). Defective paradigms. Association for Linguistic Typology, Paris, September.

2007. Congruent and incongruent morphological defectiveness. Linguisitics Association of Great Britain, King's College, London, August.

2007. Diachrony of defectiveness. Chicago Linguistic Society, May.

2006. Morphological reversals: polarity and exchange rules. Linguistic Society of America, Albuquerque, January.

2006. (with G. Corbett). Three types of defective paradigm. Linguistic Society of America, Albuquerque, January.

2006. Morphological typology of deponency. 'Deponency and morphological mismatches' conference, London, January.

2005. (with G. Corbett). Typological aspects of defectiveness. Mediterranean Morphology Meeting 5, Fréjus, September.

2005. Morphosyntactic polarity. Linguisitics Association of Great Britain, University of Cambridge, September.

2005. The limits of morphological underspecification. 27th meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft, University of Cologne, February.

2004. The location of deponency. Invited paper at the 2nd York-Essex Morphology Meeting, University of Essex. November.

2004. (with D. Brown, M. Chumakina, G. Corbett, A. Hippisley and C. Tiberius). The Surrey Typological Databases. Annual meeting of the Language Typology Resource Center, Freie Universität, Berlin, October.

2004. (with G. Corbett). Towards a typology of deponency: features and domains. Linguisitics Association of Great Britain, University of Surrey at Roehampton, September.

2004. (with G. Corbett, D. Brown, N. Evans and M. Mithun). Extended deponency: the right morphology in the wrong place. 11th International Morphology Meeting, Vienna, February.

2004. (with D. Brown, M. Chumakina, G. Corbett, A. Hippisley and C. Tiberius) Resources for morphological typology: the Surrey databases. Workshop ‘Possible Word’, at the 11th International Morphology Meeting, Vienna, February.

2003. Typology and the formal modelling of syncretism. Mediterranean Morphology Meeting 4. University of Catania, September.

2002. Results of the Surrey Syncretism Project. Surrey Linguistics Circle, University of Surrey, October.

2002. Indexing and directionality in inflection. Linguisitics Association of Great Britain, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, Manchester, September.

2002. Rules of referral without directionality. Economic and Social Research Council seminar series ‘Methods and Models in Morphology’, School of African and Oriental Studies, University of London, May.

2002. Against ordered rules. Linguistics Association of Great Britain, Edgehill College of Higher Education, April.

2001. Resolving rule competition. Economic and Social Research Council seminar ‘Methods and Models in Morphology’, University of Essex, December.

2001. The interpretation of person syncretism. Association for Linguistic Typology, University of California at Santa Barbara, July.

2002. (with D. Brown and G. Corbett). Case syncretism in and out of Indo-European. Chicago Linguistic Society 37, Chicago, April.

2002. (with G. Corbett and D. Brown). Domains of syncretism: a demonstration of the autonomy of morphology. Chicago Linguistic Society 37, Chicago, April.

2001. The typology of syncretism in two-argument verbs. Linguisitics Association of Great Britain, University of Leeds, April.

2001. (with D. Brown). Slavonic syncretisms. British Association for the Advancement of Slavonic Studies, University of Cambridge, April.

2000. Is there a semantic basis for person syncretism in verb forms? Economic and Social Research Council seminar ‘Methods and Models in Morphology’, University of Sussex, November.

2000. Contrary syncretic structure. Linguistics Association of Great Britain, University College, London, April.

2000. Defaults and syncretism in the Latvian noun paradigm. British Association for the Advancement of Slavonic Studies, University of Cambridge, April.

1998. The accentuation of ne in Balkan Slavic. American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages, San Francisco, December.

1997. Morphology versus prosodic constraints: adjectival accentuation in Macedonian. American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. Seattle, December.

1997. (with L. Billings). Macedonian clitics and the trisyllabic stress window. Second Conference on Formal Approaches to South Slavic Languages, Sofia, September.

1996. The emergence of prosodic constraints in Macedonian. Workshop on Conflicting Constraints, School of Behavioral and Cognitive Neurosciences, University of Groningen, the Netherlands, July.

1995. Implications of dialectal variation for the history of nominal accentuation in Bulgarian. Workshop on Dialectology and Historical Linguistics: Contributions of South Slavic, University of California at Berkeley, April.