People

Members of the Surrey Morphology Group collaborate with researchers from institutions in every continent and work closely with a network of visiting academics with whom we have longstanding international research links.

Prof Matthew Baerman

m.baerman@surrey.ac.uk

Prof Matthew Baerman is a specialist in inflectional morphology whose research involves a combination of cross-linguistic surveys, detailed case studies, computational modelling and diachronic reconstruction. His recent work explores morphologically-defined structures both within the paradigm (e.g. syncretism and stem alternations) and across groups of words (e.g. inflection classes).

Dr Sacha Beniamine

s.beniamine@surrey.ac.uk

Dr Sacha Beniamine is a British Academy Newton International Fellow. Starting from large inflected lexicons, his project aims to write computational tools to segment inflected words and study variation in exponence across languages using quantitative Canonical Typology. His research interests include inflection classes, morpho-phonology and language change.

Dr Oliver Bond

o.bond@surrey.ac.uk

Dr Oliver Bond researches the ways in which variation can form the empirical base for developing linguistic theory. His theoretical work primarily concerns how the various components of grammar interface, with a focus on the relationship between morphology, syntax and the lexicon. His language expertise include the Eleme language of Rivers State, Nigeria and the Tamangic languages spoken in Manang District, Nepal.

Dr Nadežda Christopher

n.christopher@surrey.ac.uk

Dr Nadežda Christopher is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow working on morpho-syntactic micro-variation and its relation with mutual intelligibility between three Turkic languages of Central Asia – Kazakh, Uzbek, Karakalpak. Nadezda’s previous work includes fieldwork in Kazakhstan, research on the Kazakh information structure, Russian negation and negative polarity items.

Dr Marina Chumakina

m.chumakina@surrey.ac.uk

Dr Marina Chumakina is an expert in Archi, a Nakh-Daghestanian language spoken in the Caucusus. Her recent research focuses on the challenges that Archi morphosyntax poses for theoretical models of syntax, specifically to what extent the existing infrastructures of HPSG, LFG and Minimalism can adequately account for the highly complex agreement system present in the language.

Prof Greville G. Corbett

g.corbett@surrey.ac.uk

Prof Greville G. Corbett is the leader of the Surrey Morphology Group. He is best known for his research on grammatical gender, number, agreement and colour terms as well as typological studies into various aspects of morphology including periphrasis, deponency and defectiveness. He is a major proponent of Network Morphology, founder of Canonical Typology and an expert in Slavonic languages.

Penny Everson

p.everson@surrey.ac.uk

Penny Everson supports the work of the Surrey Morphology Group on a range of grants including the AHRC funded project "External agreement" and the ESRC funded project "Optimal Categorisation".

Dr Michael Franjieh

m.franjieh@surrey.ac.uk

Dr. Michael Franjieh is a specialist in Oceanic languages. He is currently researching the emergence of grammatical gender from possessive classifier systems in Oceanic from a psycholinguistic perspective as part of the ESRC funded project Optimal Categorisation.

John Hutchinson

j.g.hutchinson@surrey.ac.uk

John Hutchinson is a PhD student investigating patterns of change in morphological paradigms, with a particular focus on the coalescence of multiple independent words into single forms. He has a background in typological, phonological and historical linguistics and is particularly interested in approaching issues in morphology from these perspectives

Dr Steven Kaye

s.kaye@surrey.ac.uk

Dr Steven Kaye is researching the behaviour of Nakh-Daghestanian ‘external agreement’, a phenomenon which is typologically unusual but extremely widespread in this family. He has previously worked on the Iranian language Northern Talyshi (Azerbaijan) and on grammaticalization and non-canonical verb morphology in Italic/Romance.

Dr Alexander Krasovitsky

a.krasovitsky@surrey.ac.uk

Dr Krasovitsky's research interests are in the following areas:

Russian linguistics
Language variation and change
Russian and South Slavonic morphosyntax
Phonology and phonetics
Contact linguistics
Corpus studies
Field linguistics

Dr Masha Kyuseva

m.kyuseva@surrey.ac.uk

Dr Maria (Masha) Kyuseva’s research interests lie in the domains of lexical and morphological typology. Her current project explores patterns of case marking in the dialects of eastern Serbia and western Bulgaria. Dr Kyuseva previously worked on signs denoting size and shape of objects in Russian Sign Language, on computational applications in lexical typology, and on locative predication in North-West Caucasian languages (Adyghe and Kabardian).

Lisa Mack

l.mack@surrey.ac.uk

Lisa Mack supports the work of the Surrey Morphology Group on a range of grants including the AHRC funded project "External agreement" and the ESRC funded project "Optimal Categorisation".

Prof Erich Round

e.round@surrey.ac.uk

Prof Erich Round is a British Academy Global Professor. He is an expert in the languages of Australia and the evolutionary modelling of grammatical features of language. His current research develops models of the evolution of morphological paradigms and promotes the demystification of mathematical modelling in historical linguistics.

Dr Helen Sims-Williams

h.sims-williams@surrey.ac.uk

Dr Helen Sims-Williams’ research investigates the dynamics of morphological change. Her current project aims to produce a statistical model of analogical change in inflectional morphology. Previously she has worked on the typology of inflection loss, computational modelling of the evolution of linguistic complexity, and on morphological change in Greek.

Jurriaan Wiegertjes

j.wiegertjes@surrey.ac.uk

Jurriaan Wiegertjes is a PhD student investigating systems nominal categorization in Northwest Amazonian languages. His main research interests are in linguistic description, areal typology and diachrony, and he approaches grammatical phenomena from these perspectives. He has experience with agreement, serial verbs and Tukanoan linguistics. He also works on Bará-Váímajã for which he was awarded an ELDP-MPI Glottobank fieldwork grant (GLB0016).

Former members and associated staff

Former Members

Dr Julia Barron
Dr Noel Brackney
Dr Maris Camilleri
Dr Scott Collier
Dr Timothy Feist
Dr Magdalena Fialkowska
Dr Antonio Fortin
Dr Norman Fraser
Dr Borja Herce
Prof Andrew Hippisley
Dr Anna Kibort
Dr Emily Lindsay-Smith
Dr Alison Long
Dr Stephen Mann
Dr Katarzyna Marchewka
Prof Paul Marriott
Dr Irina Monich
Dr Bill Palmer
Dr Tatiana Reid
Dr Kristian Roncero
Dr Serge Sagna
Dr Carole Tiberius
Dr Claire K. Turner