Declining Case: Inflectional Loss in Progress

Outputs

Publications

Krasovitsky, Alexander, Maria Kyuseva, Matthew Baerman, Greville G. Corbett (2024).  Diachronic paths to uninflectedness in South Slavic. To appear in  Enrique Palancar and Sebastian Fedden (editors). Uninflectedness. Papers from the German Linguistic Society Conference (DGfS), Cologne, 7-10 March 2023.

Kyuseva, Masha, Alexander Krasovitsky, Matthew Baerman, Greville G. Corbett (2023) Semantic factors in case loss: the Serbian-Bulgarian dialectal continuum. In A. Lahiri et al. (eds.), Historical Linguistics 2022. Selected papers from the 25th ICHL, Oxford, 1–5 August 2022. Accepted for publication.

Invited Presentations

Corbett, Greville G. 8 March 2023. The dog didn’t bark, the noun didn’t inflect: a typology of significant absences. Keynote presentation at the workshop on Uninflectedness at the 45th annual meeting of the German Linguistics Association (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft, DGfS) in Cologne (8-10 March 2023).

Presentations

Kyuseva, Masha (2023) History on the ground: how the case disappears. Presented at the Manchester Forum in Linguistics (MFiL): Manchester, 20-21 April.Baerman, Matthew, Greville G. Corbett, Alexander Krasovitsky, Masha Kyuseva (2023) Diachronic paths to uninflectedness in South Slavonic. Presented at the 45th Annual Conference of German Linguistic Society (DGfS). Workshop 8 Uninflectedness: Cologne, Germany, 7-10 March.Krasovitsky, Alexander, Matthew Baerman, Greville G. Corbett, Masha Kyuseva (2022) Word order and case marking in Bulgarian dialects. Presented at the 55th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE): Bucharest, Romania, 24-27 August.Kyuseva, Masha, Alexander Krasovitsky, Matthew Baerman, Greville G. Corbett (2022) Semantic factors in case loss: the Serbian-Bulgarian dialectal continuum. Presented at the International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL25): Oxford, 1-5 August.

Krasovitsky, Alexander, Matthew Baerman, Greville G. Corbett . Geoinformacionnyj analiz padežnoj variativnosti ličnyx mestoimenij (na materiale govorov Zapadnoj Bolgarii). Presented at: Sovremennye metody izučenija serbskogo jazyka v sinxronii i diaxronii. Moscow, 17-18 May 2021.

Project members

Prof. Matthew Baerman
Dr Alexander Krasovitsky
Prof. Greville G. Corbett
Dr Maria Kyuseva

Consultants:
Prof. Sofija Miloradović (Belgrade, Institute for the Serbian Language SANU)
Prof. Vladimir Zhobov (Sofia, University St. Kliment Ohridski)
Prof. Marjan Markovikj (Skopje, Research Center for Areal Linguistics & MASA)
Davor Jankuloski, MA (Skopje, Research Center for Areal Linguistics & MASA)
Dr Alexander Stewart (statistical modelling)
Nick Harff, MSc., CGeog, FRGS (GIS consultant)

Period of award:

March 2021 - June 2024

Funder

The Leverhulme Trust

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