Professor Matthew Baerman
About
Biography
I work on inflectional morphology, in particular where its structure seems to take on a life of its own, independent of the meanings and functions it expresses. This research involves a combination of cross-linguistic surveys, fieldwork, diachronic reconstruction, and computational modelling. Current or recent projects include NILOMORPH: The evolution of suprasegmental morphology in West Nilotic (ERC Synergy), Predicting language evolution: Analogy in morphological change (Leverhulme Trust), Declining Case: Morphological Loss in Progress (Leverhulme Trust), Seri Verbs: Multiple Complexities (AHRC), and Loss of Inflection (AHRC).
Along with the publications page included here, see my Academia.edu and ResearchGate pages.
Affiliations and memberships
Supervision
Postgraduate research supervision
As principal supervisor
- Jurriaan Wiegertjes. (Current). The Development and Diffusion of Nominal Categorization Systems in Northwest Amazonia (co-supervisor Oliver Bond)
- Kristian Roncero. 2020. A typological approach to West Polesian Morphosyntax (co-supervisor Greville G. Corbett)
- Tatiana Reid. 2019. Verb morphophonology in Nuer (co-supervisors Oliver Bond and Bert Remijsen)
- Borja Herce. 2019. A typological approach to morphomes (co-supervisor Oliver Bond)
- Maris Camilleri. 2014. The stem in inflectional verbal paradigms in Maltese (co-supervisors Greville G. Corbett and Dunstan Brown)
- Scott Collier. 2013. The evolution of complexity in Greek noun inflection (co-supervisors Greville G. Corbett and Dunstan Brown)
As co-supervisor
- Martin Alldrick (Current). John Hutchinson. The development of morphological overabundance in Slavonic nouns (principal supervisor Helen Sims Williams)
- John Hutchinson (Current). The evolution of morphological systems as words undergo fusion (principal supervisor Erich Round)
- Alison Long. 2010. Short-term morphosyntactic change: the development of the Russian predicate adjective 1800-2000 (principal supervisor Greville G. Corbett, co-supervisor Dunstan Brown)
Publications
Highlights
Herce, Borja, Matthew Baerman and Jeff Parker. System size and system complexity: A case study in Pamean nouns and verbs. Journal of linguistics.