Loss of inflection

Outputs

Publications

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.

Sims-Williams, Helen and Hans Olav Enger. The loss of inflection as grammar complication: Evidence from Mainland Scandinavian. Dec 2020 Diachronica.

Bond, Oliver, Helen Sims-Williams and Matthew Baerman. Contact and linguistic typology. To appear in Raymond Hickey (ed.), Handbook of Language Contact (Second edition). Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.

Fedden, Sebastian and Greville G. Corbett. Gender and classifiers in concurrent systems Refining the typology of nominal classification. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 2(1): 34. 1–47. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.177

Invited Presentations

Corbett, Greville G. 30 November 2016. Types of generalization as a measure of morphological complexity. Invited paper at the workshop: “New Fields for Morphology”, University of Melbourne, Australia, 29-30 November 2016.

Presentations

Enger, Hans-Olav, and Sims-Williams, Helen. 10 May 2018. Loss of Inflection in North Germanic Adjectives – or is it? Paper presented at the 18th International Morphology Meeting, Budapest, Hungary, 10-13 May 2018.

Sims-Williams, Helen. 7 March 2018. The External Typology of the Loss of Inflection. Paper presented at the workshop "Lost in change: causes and processes in the loss of grammatical constructions and categories" (40. Jahrestagung der Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft), University of Stuttgart, Germany, 7-9 March 2018.

Sims-Williams, Helen, Baerman, Matthew, Bond, Oliver & Corbett, Greville G. 4 August 2017. The Loss of Inflection. Paper presented at the workshop “Loss of Inflection”, ICHL 23, San Antonio, Texas, 31 July - 4 August 2017.

Sims-Williams, Helen. 10 March 2017. A diachronic mechanism for form-frequency asymmetries in inflectional paradigms. Paper presented at the workshop "Sprachliche Kodierungs-Asymmetrien, Gebrauchsfrequenz und Informativität" (39. Jahrestagung der Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft), University of the Saarland, Germany, 8-10 March 2017.

Sims-Williams, Helen, Baerman, Matthew, Bond, Oliver & Corbett, Greville G. 27 January 2017. The loss of inflection from the perspective of areal typology. Paper presented at the workshop "Diachronic Morphology: theoretical, areal and phylogenetic perspectives", University of Zürich, Switzerland, 26-27 January 2017.

 

 

 

Project members

Dr Matthew Baerman
Dr Oliver Bond
Prof Greville G. Corbett
Dr Helen Sims-Williams

Period of award:

May 2016 - May 2019

Funder

Arts and Humanitites Research Council

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