Grammatical features: A key to understanding language

Outputs

Publications

Baerman, Matthew & Greville G. Corbett. 2007. Linguistic typology: morphology. Linguistic Typology 11.115-117.

Baerman, Matthew, Greville G. Corbett, Dunstan Brown & Andrew Hippisley (eds) 2007. Deponency and Morphological Mismatches (Proceedings of the British Academy, 145). Oxford: British Academy and Oxford University Press. xv + 324pp.

Brown, Dunstan, Carole Tiberius & Greville G. Corbett. 2007. The alignment of form and function: corpus-based evidence. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 12.511-534.

Chumakina, Marina, Dunstan Brown, Harley Quilliam & Greville G. Corbett. 2007. Slovar´ arčinskogo jazyka (arčinsko-anglo-russkij) [A Dictionary of Archi: Archi-Russian-English]. Makhachkala: Delovoj Mir. xxiv + 410 pp.

Chumakina, Marina, Andrew Hippisley & Greville G. Corbett. 2004. Istoričeskie izmenenija v russkoj leksike: slučaj čeredujuščegosja suppletivizma [Historical changes in the Russian lexicon: a case of alternating suppletion]. Russian Linguistics 28.281-315.

Chumakina, Marina, Anna Kibort & Greville G. Corbett. 2007. Determining a language’s feature inventory: person in Archi. In: Peter K Austin & Andrew Simpson (eds) Endangered Languages. [Linguistische Berichte, Sonderheft 14]. Hamburg: Helmut Buske. 143- 172.

Corbett, Greville G. 2005. The number of genders (chapter and map). In: Martin Haspelmath, Matthew Dryer, David Gil & Bernard Comrie (eds) World Atlas of Language Structures. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 126-129.

Corbett, Greville G. 2005. Sex-based and non-sex-based gender (chapter and map). In: Martin Haspelmath, Matthew Dryer, David Gil & Bernard Comrie (eds) World Atlas of Language Structures. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 130-133.

Corbett, Greville G. 2005. Systems of gender assignment (chapter and map). In: Martin Haspelmath, Matthew Dryer, David Gil & Bernard Comrie (eds) World Atlas of Language Structures. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 134-137.

Corbett, Greville G. 2005. Suppletion in personal pronouns: theory versus practice, and the place of reproducibility in typology. Linguistic Typology 9.1-23. Corbett, Greville G. 2006. Agreement. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Corbett, Greville G. 2006. Grammatical gender. In: Keith Brown (ed.) Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd Edition, Volume 4. Oxford: Elsevier. 749-756. Corbett, Greville G. 2006. Linguistic features. In: Keith Brown (ed.) Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd Edition, Volume 7. Oxford: Elsevier. 193-194.

Corbett, Greville G. 2006. Number. In: Keith Brown (ed.) Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd Edition, Volume 8. Oxford: Elsevier. 724-731.

Corbett, Greville G. 2006. Morphosyntactic features: the special contribution of the Slavonic languages. To appear in: S. Birzer, M. Finkelstein & I. Mendoza (eds) Perspectives on Slavistics II (special volume of Die Welt der Slaven). Munich: Otto Sagner.

Corbett, Greville G. 2007. Canonical typology, suppletion and possible words. Language 83.8-42. Corbett, Greville G. 2007. Gender and noun classes. In: Timothy Shopen (ed.) Language Typology and Syntactic Description. III: Grammatical categories and the lexicon. Second edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 241-279.

Corbett, Greville G. 2007. Deponency, syncretism and what lies between. In: Matthew Baerman, Greville G. Corbett, Dunstan Brown & Andrew Hippisley (eds) Deponency and Morphological Mismatches (Proceedings of the British Academy, 145), 21-43. Oxford: British Academy and Oxford University Press.

Corbett, Greville G. 2007. Gradience in morphosyntactic features. To appear in: Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS 43).

Corbett, Greville G. 2008. Determining morphosyntactic feature values: the case of case. To appear in: Greville G. Corbett & Michael Noonan (eds) Case and Grammatical Relations: Papers in Honour of Bernard Comrie. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Corbett, Greville G. 2009. Features and universals. In: Sergio Scalise & Elisabetta Magni (eds) Universals of Language Today. Heidelberg: Springer.

Corbett, Greville G. 2010. Features: some key concepts. In: Anna Kibort & Greville G. Corbett (eds) Features: Perspectives on a Key Notion in Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Corbett, Greville G. 2010. Implicational hierarchies. To appear in: Jae Jung Song (ed.) The Handbook of Language Typology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Corbett, Greville G. 2011. Higher order exceptionality in inflectional morphology. To appear in: Horst J. Simon & Heike Wiese (eds) Expecting the Unexpected: Exceptions in Grammar. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Corbett, Greville G. 2012. Grammatical relations in a typology of agreement systems. To appear in:Bernard Comrie, Pirkko Suihkonen & Valery Solovyev (eds) Proceedings of LENCA-II. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Corbett, Greville G. 2014. Agreement. To appear in: Tilman Berger, Karl Gutschmidt, Sebastian Kempgen & Peter Kosta (eds) Slavische Sprachen/Slavic Languages: An International Handbook of their History, their Structure and their Investigation. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.

Corbett, Greville G. & Matthew Baerman. 2006. Prolegomena to a typology of morphological features. Morphology 16.231-246.

Corbett, Greville G. & Michael Noonan (eds) 2008. Case and Grammatical Relations: Papers in Honour of Bernard Comrie. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Kibort, Anna. 2005. The INs and OUTs of the Participle-Adjective Conversion Rule. In: Miriam Butt & Tracy Holloway King (eds) Proceedings of the LFG05 Conference, University of Bergen, Norway. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications. 205-225.

Kibort, Anna. 2006. On three different types of subjectlessness and how to model them in LFG. In: Miriam Butt & Tracy Holloway King (eds) Proceedings of the LFG06 Conference, University of Konstanz, Germany. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications. 289-309.

Kibort, Anna. 2007. Extending the applicability of Lexical Mapping Theory. In: Miriam Butt & Tracy Holloway King (eds) Proceedings of the LFG07 Conference, Stanford University. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications. 250-270.

Kibort, Anna 2010.  Number. To appear in: Patrick Hogan (ed.) The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Kibort, Anna 2010. Towards a typology of grammatical features. In: Anna Kibort & Greville G. Corbett (eds) Features: Perspectives on a Key Notion in Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Kibort, Anna 2010. Tracking the origins of the concept ‘feature’. In: Anna Kibort & Greville G. Corbett (eds) Features: Perspectives on a Key Notion in Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Kibort, Anna 2010. Impersonals in Polish - an LFG perspective. To appear in: Anna Siewierska (ed.) Impersonal Constructions. (Special issue of the Transactions of the Philological Society). Oxford: Blackwell.

Kibort, Anna 2010. Gender marking. To appear in: Patrick Hogan (ed.) The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Kibort, Anna 2011. The feature of tense at the interface of morphology and semantics. To appear in: Alexandra Galani, George Tsoulas & Glyn Hicks (eds) Morphology and Its Interfaces. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Kibort, Anna & Greville G. Corbett (eds) 2010.  Features: Perspectives on a Key Notion in Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Seminars

8 April 2005. A seminar on “Daghestanian Lexicology and Typology”, at the University of Surrey. Invited speakers: Professor Aleksandr Kibrik and Professor Sandro Kodzasov (both Moscow State University), Professor Andrew Spencer (University of Essex).

21 April 2005. An all-day seminar on “Formal Feature Theories 1958-1988”, at the University of Surrey, led by Professor Gerald Gazdar (University of Sussex). 19 December 2005. An all-day Morphology Meeting on “Feature-based Grammars”, at the University of Surrey, with guest tutorial by Dr Jim Blevins (University of Cambridge).

16-17 January 2006. A two-day workshop on “Deponency and Morphological Mismatches”, held at the British Academy, London (co-organised with Matthew Baerman, Dunstan Brown & Andrew Hippisley). Invited speakers: Professor Mark Aronoff (State University of New York, Stony Brook), Professor Jonathan Bobaljik (University of Connecticut), Professor Nicholas Evans (University of Melbourne), Professor Andrew Spencer (University of Essex), Professor Gregory Stump (University of Kentucky), Professor Nigel Vincent (University of Manchester).

3 March 2006. An all-day Morphology Meeting on “Morphosyntactic Features: Tense, Aspect, Mood”, at the University of Surrey, with guest tutorial by Professor Östen Dahl (University of Stockholm).

19 May 2006. An all-day Morphology Meeting on “Feature-based Approaches to Morphology and their Implementation”, at the University of Surrey, with guest presentation by Professor James Kilbury (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf). 13 October 2006. An all-day Morphology Meeting on “Morphosyntactic Features: Case”, at the University of Surrey, with guest tutorial by Professor Miriam Butt (Universität Konstanz).

15 December 2006. An all-day Morphology Meeting on “Tagging for morphosyntactic features in large corpora”, at the University of Surrey, with guest tutorial by Dr Adam Przepiórkowski (Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw).

12 January 2007. An all-day Morphology Meeting entitled “Is case a feature of the verb?”, University of Surrey, with guest tutorial by Professor Alice Harris (State University of New York, Stony Brook).

9-11 May 2007. A three-day workshop on “Grammatical features in an ontology of linguistic description”, University of Surrey. Guest participants: Prof. Helen Aristar Dry (Eastern Michigan University; Moderator of the Linguist List), Prof. William Lewis (University of Washington), Michael Appleby (Eastern Michigan University; Managing Editor of the Linguist List), Martin Warin (Eastern Michigan University; Editor of the Linguist List).

8 June 2007. An all-day Morphology Meeting on “Features: Morphological Aspect”, University of Surrey, with guest presentation by Dr Leora Bar-El (SOAS).

1-2 September 2007. “Workshop on Features” - a two-day conference held at King’s College London, dedicated to grammatical features and aiming at disseminating the results of the Features Project. Invited speakers: Prof. David Adger (Queen Mary University of London), Dr Ann Copestake (Cambridge University), Prof. Ronald Kaplan (Powerset Inc. and Stanford University), Prof. Maria Polinsky (Harvard University), Prof. Geoffrey K. Pullum (Edinburgh University), Prof. Ivan Sag (Stanford University).

Lectures and presentations

24 February 2005. Corbett, Greville G. Higher order exceptionality in inflectional morphology. Paper read at the Arbeitsgruppe ‘Auf alles gefasst sein: Ausnahmen in der Grammatik’ at the 27th Annual Meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft, Cologne, 23-25 February 2005. 8 April 2005.

Chumakina, Marina, Anna Kibort & Greville G. Corbett. Determining a language’s feature inventory: person in Archi. Paper read at the Workshop on Daghestanian Lexicology and Typology, University of Surrey, 8 April 2005. [Presented by MC]

12 April 2005. Corbett, Greville G. The world’s words: typology and diversity. Talk given at the Institute for Language and Linguistic Studies, University of St. Andrews.

3 May 2005. Corbett, Greville G. Canonical agreement. Paper read at the Morphology and Typology Seminar at Lietuviø kalbos institutas (Institute of Lithuanian Language), Vilnius, 3-5 May 2005.

3 May 2005. Corbett, Greville G. A typology of suppletion. Paper read at the Morphology and Typology Seminar at Lietuviø kalbos institutas (Institute of Lithuanian Language), Vilnius, 3-5 May 2005.

30 May 2005. Corbett, Greville G. Agreement features. Talk given at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig.

3 July 2005. Kibort, Anna & Greville G. Corbett. Proposed Grammatical Features Resource. Paper read at E-MELD 2005 Workshop on Digital Language Documentation: Linguistic Ontologies and Data Categories in Morphosyntactic Annotation, Cambridge, MA, 1-3 July 2005. [Presented by AK]

20 July 2005. Kibort, Anna. The INs and OUTs of the Participle-Adjective Conversion Rule. Poster presented at the 2005 International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference LFG05, Bergen, 16-21 July 2005.

23 July 2005. Corbett, Greville G. & Anna Kibort. On the problem of feature compatibility. Paper read at the Workshop on the World Atlas of Language Structures at the 6th Biennial Meeting of the Association for Linguistic Typology, Padang, 21-25 July 2005. [Presented by GGC]

24 July 2005. Corbett, Greville G. The canonical approach in typology: suppletion and features. Paper read at the 6th Biennial Meeting of the Association for Linguistic Typology, Padang, 21-25 July 2005. 1 September 2005. Corbett, Greville G. Resolving the resolution rule problem. Paper read at the annual meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain, Cambridge, 31 August-3 September 2005.

16 September 2005. Baerman, Matthew & Greville G. Corbett. Typological aspects of defectiveness. Paper read at the Fifth Mediterranean Morphology Meeting, Fréjus, France, 15-18 September 2005. [Presented by MB & GGC]

23 September 2005. Chumakina, Marina & Greville G. Corbett. Èlektronnyj slovar´ arčinskogo jazyka [An electronic dictionary of Archi.] Presentation at the Fourth International School in Typology and Anthropology, Tsaghkadzor, Armenia, 21-28 September 2005. [Presented by MC]

23 September 2005. Corbett, Greville G. The role of features in typology. Plenary paper at the Fourth International School in Typology and Anthropology, Tsaghkadzor, Armenia, 21-28 September 2005.

7 October 2005. Corbett, Greville G. Features: the evidence from resolution. Talk given at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen.

11 October 2005. Corbett, Greville G. Interactions and features. Keynote lecture at the colloquium ‘The Interaction of Gender and Number in the Languages of the World’, University of Leiden.

28 October 2005. Corbett, Greville G. Prolegomena to a typology of morphosyntactic features. Paper read at the International Conference on Slavonic Syntax (Session of the International Commission on the Grammatical Structure of the Slavonic Languages), Matica Srpska, Novi Sad, 27-29 October 2005.

31 October 2005. Corbett, Greville G. Features, resolution rules and typology. Talk given at Laboratorija za informatiku, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Belgrade. 17 November 2005. Corbett, Greville G. Features: the evidence from agreement. Talk given at Roehampton Research Seminar series, University of Surrey Roehampton.

30 November 2005. Kibort, Anna. Grammatical features: problems of analysis and standardisation. Talk given at the Department of Linguistics, University of Cambridge. 19 December 2005. Kibort, Anna & Greville G. Corbett. Constructing an inventory of grammatical features. Talk at the Morphology Meeting, University of Surrey. [Presented by AK]

7 January 2006. Baerman, Matthew & Greville G. Corbett. Three types of defective paradigm. Paper read at the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Albuquerque, 5-8 January 2006. [Presented by MB]

8 January 2006. Corbett, Greville G. Peripheral and peculiar? Understanding resolution rules. Paper read at the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Albuquerque, 5-8 January 2006. 13 January 2006. Corbett, Greville G. The typology of features: what coordination tells us. Paper read at the Symposium on Current Topics in Typology, Department of English, Freie Universität Berlin, 13-14 January 2006.

17 January 2006. Corbett, Greville G. Deponency, syncretism, and what lies between. Paper given at the Workshop on Deponency and Morphological Mismatches, British Academy, London, 16-17 January 2006. 1 February 2006. Corbett, Greville G. Feature interactions. Talk given at the Linguistics Seminar, University College London.

3 March 2006. Kibort, Anna. What are the possible values for the tense feature? Talk given at the Morphology Meeting, University of Surrey.

28 April 2006. Corbett, Greville G. Features: Germanic and typological aspects. Keynote lecture at the Twelfth Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference (GLAC-12), The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, April 28-29, 2006.

4 May 2006. Corbett, Greville G. Impossible interactions of morphosyntactic features. Talk given at the Department of Linguistics, State University of New York, Stony Brook. 15 May 2006. Corbett, Greville G. & Matthew Baerman. The typology of features: the place of morphological features. Paper given at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig. [Presented by GGC]

12 July 2006. Kibort, Anna. On three different types of subjectlessness and how to model them in LFG. Paper read at the 2006 International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference LFG06, Konstanz, 10-13 July 2006.

13-14 September 2006. Corbett, Greville G. Set of lectures on ‘Features in syntax’ at the Typology Seminar, Vilnius: ‘Agreement features’, ‘Coordination, and what it tells us about features’, ‘What are canonical morphosyntactic features?’

15 September 2006. Corbett, Greville G. The place of gender in the system of morphosyntactic features. Invited paper at the Amsterdam Gender Colloquium, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 15-16 September 2006.

24 September 2006. Corbett, Greville G. Features: Slavonic and typological perspectives. Keynote lecture at The Second ‘Perspectives on Slavistics’ Conference, University of Regensburg, 21-24 September 2006.

6 October 2006. Corbett, Greville G. Number in the typology of features. Invited paper for the workshop ‘Dépendances distributives: pluralité nominale et verbale’ (under the auspices of Fédération typologie et universaux linguistiques), Université Paris VIII, 6-7 October 2006.

13 October 2006. Corbett, Greville G. Canonical case. Talk given at the Morphology Meeting, University of Surrey. 20 October 2006. Corbett, Greville G. Gender as a key morphosyntactic feature. Ontology Workshop, Eastern Michigan University, 19-21 October 2006.

27 October 2006. Corbett, Greville G. Determining features and their values. Invited paper at the International Workshop ‘New Perspectives on Morphological Change’, Freie Universität Berlin, 27-28 October 2006.

7 November 2006. Corbett, Greville G. Some impossible interactions of morphosyntactic features. Lecture given at Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz. 20 January 2007. Corbett, Greville G. Universals and features. Invited paper at the international conference ‘With more than chance frequency. Forty years of Universals of Language’, University of Bologna, 19-20 January 2007.

5-9 February 2007. Corbett, Greville. G. Features in syntax, morphology and typology. Course of ten lectures for the Interdepartmental PhD Program in Linguistics at the University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain.

15 February 2007. Corbett, Greville G. The typology of morphosyntactic features: can we keep it simple? Invited paper, University of York.

8-16 March 2007. Corbett, Greville G. The Galileo Lectures. A course of six lectures on ‘Grammatical features: a key to understanding natural language’ at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, sponsored by the Associazione degli Amici della Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa.

3 May 2007. Corbett, Greville G. Gradience in morphosyntactic features. Paper given at the 43rd Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS 43), 3-5 May 2007. 30 May 2007. Corbett, Greville G. Morphosyntactic features: issues in typology and theory. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig.

19 July 2007. Corbett, Greville G. Justifying morphosyntactic features and their values. Guest lecture in the Morphology course at the 2007 LSA Summer Institute, Stanford University, July 2007.

19 July 2007. Corbett, Greville G. The typology of features. Guest lecture in the Morphology course at the 2007 LSA Summer Institute, Stanford University, July 2007.

25 July 2007. Krasovitsky, Alexander, Alison Long, Dunstan Brown, Matthew Baerman & Greville G. Corbett. Changing semantic factors in case selection: Russian evidence from the last two centuries. Paper given at the ‘Workshop on empirical approaches to morphological case’ (within the Linguistics Society of America Summer Institute 2007), Stanford University, 25 July 2007. [Presented by GGC]

28 July 2007. Kibort, Anna. Extending the applicability of Lexical Mapping Theory. Poster presented at the 2007 International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference LFG07, Stanford, 28-30 July 2007.

1 September 2007. Corbett, Greville G. Features: some key concepts. Introductory talk at the ‘Workshop on Features’ organised as part of the Features Project. King’s College London, 1-2 September 2007.

1 September 2007. Kibort, Anna. Towards a typology of grammatical features. Paper given at the ‘Workshop on Features’ organised as part of the Features Project. King’s College London, 1-2 September 2007.

14 September 2007. Corbett, Greville G. Adjectives, features and lexical categories. Invited paper at the Colloque international sur «Les adjectifs», Université Lille III, 13-15 September 2007.

25 September 2007. Baerman, Matthew & Greville G. Corbett. Defective paradigms. Paper given at the ‘Association for Linguistic Typology VII’, Paris, 24-28 September 2007. [Presented by MB]

26 September 2007. Corbett, Greville G. The typology of morphosyntactic features: impossible interactions. Paper given at the ‘Association for Linguistic Typology VII’, Paris, 24-28 September 2007.

28 September 2007. Corbett, Greville G. A canonical approach to morphosyntactic features. Paper given at the 6th Mediterranean Morphology Meeting, University of Patras, Ithaca, Greece, 27-30 September 2007.

4 October 2007. Kibort, Anna & Greville G. Corbett. Justifying morphosyntactic features. Poster presented at the international conference “Where Do Features Come From? Phonological Primitives in the Brain, the Mouth, and the Ear”, University of Paris 3 (Sorbonne-nouvelle), 4-5 October 2007. [Presented by AK]

12 October 2007. Corbett, Greville G. Features: essential notions. Natural Language Technology Group, University of Brighton. 12 October 2007. Corbett, Greville G. Canonical features and canonical parts of speech. Natural Language Technology Group, University of Brighton.

12 October 2007. Kibort, Anna. A typological view of feature assignment. Natural Language Technology Group, University of Brighton.

Project members

Prof Greville G. Corbett
Dr Anna Kibort

Period of award:

November 2004 - October 2007

Funder

Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)

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