Dr Matthew Baerman
Principal Research Fellow (SMG)
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 and. Recent projects include Declining Case: Morphological Loss in Progress (Leverhulme Trust), Seri Verbs: Multiple Complexities, Loss of Inflection, and Morphological Complexity in Nuer (Arts and Humanities Research Council).
Along with the publications page included here, see my Academia.edu and ResearchGate pages.
My qualifications
B.A.
Yale University
M.Arch.
Harvard University
Ph.D.
University of California, Berkely
Supervision
Postgraduate research supervision
As principal supervisor:
Kristian Roncero. A typological approach to West Polesian Morphosyntax (co-supervisor Greville G. Corbett)
Tatiana Reid. Verb morphophonology in Nuer (co-supervisors Oliver Bond and Bert Remijsen)
Borja Herce. 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:
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)
My publications
Publications
Baerman, M. (2020). Gender flip and person marking in Benchnon (North Omotic). Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics, 5(1), 76.
Baerman, M., I. Monich and T. Reid (2019). Nominal inflection classes in verbal paradigms. Morphology 29(3). 317–335.
Baerman, M., O. Bond and A. Hippisley (eds) (2019). Morphological Perspectives: Papers in Honour of Greville G. Corbett
Baerman, M., D. Brown, and G.G. Corbett (2017). Morphological Complexity. Cambridge University Press.
Baerman, M. (2016). Seri verb classes: Morphosyntactic motivation and morphological autonomy. Language, 92(4). 792–823.
Baerman, M. (2015). The Oxford Handbook of Inflection. Oxford University Press.
Baerman, M., D. Brown, and G.G. Corbett (eds.) (2015). Understanding and Measuring Morphological Complexity. Oxford University Press.
Baerman, M. (2014). Suppletive kin term paradigms in the languages of New Guinea. Linguistic Typology, 18 (3). 413-48.
Baerman, M. (2014). Covert systematicity in a distributionally complex system. Journal of Linguistics, 50 (1). 1-47
Baerman, M. and E. Palancar (2014). The organization of Chinantec tone paradigms In: Proceedings of the Décembrettes. 8th International conference on morphology. December 6-7, 2012. Carnets de grammaire. 46-59.
Baerman, M. (2014). Historical development of Slavic inflectional accent In: The Slavic Languages (Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science 32.2), 1590-1596. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Baerman, M. (2014). Inflectional class interactions in Oto-Manguean. In: Patterns in Mesoamerican Morphology, ed. by A. Kihm & J.-L. Léonard, 15–25. Paris: Michel Houdiard.
Baerman, M. (2013). Inflection class interactions In: Morphology in Toulouse: Selected proceedings of Décembrettes 8. Lincom. 11–34.
Baerman, M. and G.G. Corbett (2013). Person by other means. In Languages across boundaries: studies in memory of Anna Siewierska, ed. by D. Bakker & M. Haspelmath, 13–26. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Baerman, M. and G.G. Corbett (2012). Stem alternations and multiple exponence. Word Structure, 5 (1). 52-68.
Baerman, M. (2011). Defectiveness and homophony avoidance. Journal of Linguistics, 47 (1). 1-29.
Krasovitsky, A, M. Baerman, D. Brown and G.G. Corbett (2011). Changing semantic factors in case selection: Russian evidence from the last two centuries. Morphology, 21 (3). 573-592.
Baerman, M. and G.G. Corbett (2010). Defectiveness: typology and diachrony. In Baerman, Brown & Corbett (2010), 1–18.
Krasovitsky, A, M. Baerman, D. Brown, G.G. Corbett and P. Williams (2010). Morphosyntactic Change in Russian: A Corpus-based Approach In: Diachronic Slavic syntax: Gradual changes in focus, 109-119. Verlag Otto Sagner, München-Berlin-Wien.
Baerman, M., G.G. Corbett and D. Brown (2010). Defective Paradigms: missing forms and what they tell us. Oxford University Press.
Baerman, M. (2009). Case syncretism. In: The Oxford Handbook of Case, ed. by A. Spencer & A. Malchukov, 2019–30. Oxford University Press.
Baerman, M. (2009). The diachrony of defectiveness. Chicago Linguistic Society 43(2). 251–65.
Krasovitsky, A, A. Long, M. Baerman, D. Brown and G.G. Corbett (2008). Predicate nouns in Russian. Russian Linguistics, 32 (2). 99-113.
Baerman, M. (2008). Historical observations on defectiveness: the first singular non-past. Russian Linguistics, 32 (1). 81-97.
Baerman, M. (2007). Morphological reversals. Journal of Linguistics, 43 (1). 33-61.
Baerman, M. (2007). Morphological typology of deponency. In: Baerman, Corbett, Brown and Hippisley, 1–19.
Baerman, M., G.G. Corbett, D. Brown and A. Hippisley (2007). Deponency and Morphological Mismatches. Oxford University Press.
Baerman, M. (2007). Syncretism. Language and Linguistics Compass 1(5). 539–551
Baerman, M. and G.G. Corbett (2007). Linguistic typology: Morphology. Linguistic Typology, 11 (1). 115-117.
Baerman, M. and G.G. Corbett (2006). Prolegomena to a typology of morphological features. Morphology, 16 (2). 231-246.
Baerman, M., D. Brown, and G.G. Corbett (2005). The Syntax-Morphology Interface: a Study of Syncretism. Cambridge University Press.
Baerman, M. and D. Brown (2005). Case Syncretism. In: World Atlas of Language Structures, ed. by M. Haspelmath, M. Dryer, D. Gil & B. Comrie, 118–21. Oxford University Press.
Baerman, M. and D. Brown (2005). Syncretism in Verbal Person/Number Marking. In: World Atlas of Language Structures, ed. by M. Haspelmath, M. Dryer, D. Gil & B. Comrie, 118–21. Oxford University Press.
Baerman, M. (2005). Syncretism. In: Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (second edition), ed. by K. Brown. Oxford: Elsevier.
Baerman, M. (2005). Typology and the formal modelling of syncretism. Yearbook of Morphology 2004. 41–72.
Baerman, M. (2004). Post-stressing complementizers in Erkeč (Kozičino). In: Revitalizing Bulgarian Dialectology, ed. by R. Alexander and V. Zhobov. Berkeley: University of California International Press Digital Publications.
Baerman, M. (2004). Directionality and (un)natural classes in syncretism. Language, 80 (4). 807-827.
Corbett, G.G., M. Baerman and D. Brown (2002). Domains of syncretism: a demonstration of the autonomy of morphology. Chicago Linguistic Society 37: The Panels. 385–98.
Baerman, M., D. Brown, and G.G. Corbett (2002). Case syncretism in and out of Indo-European. Chicago Linguistic Society 37: The Main Session. 15–28.
Baerman, M. (2001). Unnatural classes in morphological change. Russian Linguistics, 25 (2). 281-284.
Baerman, M. (2001). The prosodic properties of ne in Bulgarian In: Current issues in formal Slavic linguistics, ed. by G. Zybatow, U. Junghanns, G. Mehlhorn and L. Szucsich, 59-68. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main.
Rudin, C., C. Kramer, L. Billings, and M. Baerman (1999). Macedonian and Bulgarian li questions: Beyond syntax. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 17 (3). 541-586.
Baerman, M. (1998). The evolution of prosodic constraints in Macedonian. Lingua, 104 (1-2). 57-78.
O. Bond, H. Sims-Williams and M. Baerman (2020). Contact and Linguistic Typology. In Raymond Hickey (ed.), The Handbook of Language Contact (2nd Edition), 129-148. Wiley-Blackwell.
M. Baerman and I. Monich (2021). Paradigmatic saturation in Nuer. Language 97(3). (to appear)
Baerman, M. E. Palancar, and T. Feist (2019). Inflectional class complexity in the Oto-Manguean languages. Amerindia 41. 1-18.
Sims-Williams, H,, and M. Baerman (2021). A typological perspective on the loss of inflection. In Svenja Kranich and Tine Breban (eds), Lost in Change: Causes and processes in the loss of grammatical constructions and categories, 21–49. John Benjamins.