Optimal Categorisation: the origin and nature of gender from a psycholinguistic perspective

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Publications 

Corbett, Greville G. 2023. The Agreement Hierarchy and (generalized) semantic agreement. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 8(1). pp. 1–39. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.9164

Corbett, Greville G. 2023. The typology of external splits. Language 99(1). 108-153. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/884311.

Corbett, Greville G. 2023. The typology of external splits: Supplementary Material. Online only at https://muse.jhu.edu/article/884975/summary

Franjieh, M., Grandison, A., Dotte, A-L., & Corbett, G. G. (2022). Implementing free-listing: possessive classifiers in Oceanic. Semantic Fieldwork Methods, (4).

Corbett, Greville G. (2022). The Agreement Hierarchy revisited: the typology of controllers. Word Structure 15(3). 181-225. (Thematic issue The many facets of agreement edited by Tania Paciaroni, Alice Idone & Michele Loporcaro) doi:10.3366/word.2022.0208.

Grandison, A., Franjieh, M., Greene, L., & Corbett, G. G. (2021). Optimal Categorisation: The Nature of Nominal Classification Systems. Cadernos de Linguística, v. 2, n. 1, e393. DOI: 10.25189/2675-4916.2021.V2.N1.ID393

Franjieh, M., Corbett, G. G. & Grandison, A. (2021). Uncovering variation in classifier assignment in Oceanic. ExLing 2021: Proceedings of 12th International Conference of Experimental Linguistics, 11-13 October 2021, Athens, Greece: 81-84.

Corbett, G. G., & Fedden S. (2018). New approaches to the typology of gender. In Fedden S, Audring J, Corbett G G. (Ed.), Non-canonical gender systems  (pp. 9-35). Oxford: OUP.

Corbett, G. G. (2018). Pluralia tantum nouns in the Slavonic languages. XVI International Congress of Slavists, Belgrade 20-27 August 2018.

Fedden, Sebastian, Jenny Audring & Greville G. Corbett. (2018). Non-Canonical Gender Systems. United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.

Fedden Sebastian & Greville G. Corbett. (2018). Extreme classification. Cognitive Linguistics, (4), doi: 10.1515/cog-2017-0109

Franjieh, M. (2018). North Ambrym possessive classifiers from the perspective of canonical gender. In Fedden S, Audring J, Corbett GG. (Ed.), Non Canonical Gender Systems OUP.

Invited Presentations

Corbett, Greville G. 3-7 July 2023. Course on ‘Canonical Typology’ (five lectures). LOT summer school, Utrecht University.

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).

Franjieh, M., Grandison, A., & Corbett, G. G. 2022. Psycholinguistic investigations into Oceanic possessive classifiers. Invited seminar at the Université de la Nouvelle-Calédonie, New Caledonia

Corbett, Greville G. 7-11 September 2022. A displaced image of word properties: splits and agreement in typological perspective. Set of four invited lectures at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa (1. Lexical splits: a canonical approach; 2. External splits: 3. Internal and external splits: relations between them; 4. The Agreement Hierarchy revisited: controllers and (generalized) semantic agreement).

Corbett, Greville G. 1 June 2022: Gender and number hybrids: the Agreement Hierarchy revisited. MultiGender final retreat, Engø gård, 30 May –3 June 2022.

Corbett, Greville G. 25 November 2021. Renewing the Agreement Hierarchy: A Canonical Typology approach. Keynote talk at 18th Conference on Typology and Grammar for Young Scholars, Institute for Linguistic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg, online, 25-27 November 2021.

Corbett, Greville G. 16 November 2021. The Agreement Hierarchy: Updating the typology of controllers. Surrey Linguistic Circle.

Fedden, Sebastian, Matías Guzmán Naranjo and Greville Corbett. 1 September 2021. Typology meets data-mining: the German gender system. Plenary talk at Societas Linguistica Europaea, Athens (online).  31 August-3 September 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEcP2-6Ww0Q

Franjieh, Michael, Greville G. Corbett & Alexandra Grandison. Optimal Categorisation: emergent gender in Oceania. 12 July 2021. Seminar at the Research Forum at the Graduate School Empirical and Applied Linguistics, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster (online).

Corbett, Greville G., Michael Franjieh and Alexandra Grandison. 1 September 2020. Languages are VERY different. Invited keynote lecture at: European Association of Social Psychology Summer School (online), University of Surrey, 24 August – 4 September 2020. 

Corbett, Greville G. Sebastian Fedden, Michael Franjieh, Alexandra Grandison & Erich Round. 14 July 2020. Gender: new horizons. Invited talk in the series Abralin ao Vivo – Linguists Online. Available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmJDV5q7zqQ

Fedden, Sebastian & Greville G. Corbett. 4 March 2020. The German gender system: typological treasure hiding in plain sight. Invited talk at the Centre for Advanced Study workshop “The typology of gender systems” (within the project MultiGender: A Multilingual Approach to Grammatical Gender), Oslo, 3-4 March 2020.

Corbett, Greville G. & Sebastian Fedden. 3 March 2020. Typology meets reality: nominal classification systems. Talk at the Centre for Advanced Study workshop “The typology of gender systems” (within the project MultiGender: A Multilingual Approach to Grammatical Gender), Oslo, 3-4 March 2020.

Fedden, Sebastian & Greville G. Corbett. 22 October 2019. Nominal classification: The usefulness of the Canonical Approach. Keynote lecture at Various Dimensions of Contrastive Studies: Language Contact. Ustroń, Poland. Organized by the University of Silesia in Katowice, 21-22 October 2019. [Presented by SF.]

Corbett, Greville G. 3 October 2019. The Agreement Hierarchy revisited. Invited lecture at “The many facets of agreement”, University of Zürich, 3-5 October 2019.  

Corbett, Greville G. and Sebastian Fedden. 18 September 2019. Getting to grips with nominal classification systems: a Canonical Typology. Seminar at the Multigender Project, Centre for Advanced Study, Oslo. [Presented by GGC.]

Corbett, Greville G. 4 July 2019. Features: what we learn from indigenous languages. Workshop “The alphabet of universal grammar”, British Academy, London. 4-5 July 2019.

Corbett, Greville G., Michael Franjieh & Alexandra Grandison. 23 May 2019. The origin and nature of gender: a psycholinguistic perspective. Paper at the Centre for Advanced Study, project kick-off: “MultiGender: A Multilingual Approach to Grammatical Gender”. Oslo, 23-24 May 2019.

Corbett, Greville G. & Sebastian Fedden. 29 November 2018.  The typology of nominal classification. Invited lecture for the PhD course Theoretical perspectives on grammatical gender, November 27-29 2018, NTNU Trondheim.

Corbett, Greville G. 27 November 2018. The typology of gender. Invited lecture for the PhD course Theoretical perspectives on grammatical gender, November 27-29 2018, NTNU Trondheim.

Presentations

Franjieh, Michael, Alexandra Grandison and Greville G. Corbett. 13 July 2023. Vanuatu Languages Conference, Port Vila 10-13 July 2023.

Grandison, Alexandra, Michael Franjieh, Greville G. Corbett. 5 December 2022. Optimal categorisation: Tracking Change in Endangered Languages. Linguistweets: 3rd International Twitter Conference on Linguistics Annual Meeting. 5th December 2022.

Fedden, Sebastian, Tania Paciaroni and Greville G. Corbett. 20 May 2022. Reduced agreement: mysterious gaps in the system. MMM13 (13th Mediterranean Morphology Meeting), Rhodes, 19-22 May 2022. [presented by Sebastian Fedden]

Corbett, Greville G. 7 April 2022. A great PhD: strategies to use from the typology of agreement. LiZZ-Kolloquium, University of Zürich.

Franjieh, Michael, Greville G. Corbett & Alexandra Grandison. 17 December 2021. Comparing possessive classifier systems across Oceanic languages. 6th Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory Conference (LDLT6), London (Virtual). 16-18 December 2021

Franjieh, Michael, Greville G. Corbett and Alexandra Grandison. 12 October 2021. Uncovering variation in classifier assignment in Oceanic. 12th International Conference on Experimental Linguistics, Athens. 11-13 October 2021

Fedden, Sebastian,  Matías Guzmán Naranjo and Greville Corbett. 23 September 2021. Typological richness of the German gender system revealed by data mining. ISMo 2021: 3rd International Symposium of Morphology 2021, CLLE laboratory (CNRS & Université de Toulouse Jean Jaurès), online, 22-24 September 2021.

Franjieh, Michael, Greville G. Corbett & Alexandra Grandison. 31 August 2021. Cognitive effects of possessive classifiers: visualising complex data with dendrograms. Paper at 54th Societas Linguistica Eurpoaea 2021 (SLE 2021), Athens (Virtual), 30 August - 3 September 2021

Franjieh, Michael, Alexandra Grandison and Greville G. Corbett. 10 June 2021. Visualising complex data: dendrograms help in interpreting possessive classifier membership. 13th International Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics Conference (APLL13) Edinburgh (online). 10-12 June 2021.

Corbett, Greville G., Michael Franjieh and Alexandra Grandison. 9 February 2021. Languages are more different than you think. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Leipzig, Department of Human Behavior, Ecology and Culture (online). 

Franjieh, Michael, Greville G. Corbett & Alexandra Grandison. 26 August 2020. How classifiers become gender in Oceanic: an experimental approach. Paper at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistic Europaea, Bucharest (virtual), 26-29 August 2020. 

Corbett, Greville G. & Sebastian Fedden. 26 August 2020. German gender: A statistical approach. Paper at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistic Europaea, Bucharest (virtual), 26-29 August 2020.

Franjieh, Michael, Greville G. Corbett & Alexandra Grandison. 19 June 2020. Typology meets psycholinguistics: the rise of gender in Oceania. Paper at the 12th International Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics Conference, Oslo, (virtual), 18-20 June 2020. 

Franjieh, Michael, Greville G. Corbett & Alexandra Grandison. October 9 2019. Optimal categorisation: a psycholinguistic perspective on the development of gender systems. 11th Conference on Oceanic Linguisitcs (COOL 11), Noumea, New Caledonia, 7-11th October 2019 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvN8Eh0-B64

Grandison, Alexandra, Michael Franjieh, and Greville G. Corbett. 4 September 2019. Optimal categorisation: the cognition and development of nominal classification systems. Cognitive Psychology Section & Developmental Psychology Section's Joint Conference, Stoke-on-Trent, 4-6 September 2019.  [Presented by Alexandra Grandison.]

Corbett, Greville G. and Sebastian Fedden. 22 August 2019. Progress on Nominal classification: a Canonical Typology. SLE 2019: 52nd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Leipzig University, 21-24 August 2019.

Franjieh, Michael, Greville G. Corbett and Alexandra Grandison.21 August 2019. Optimal categorisation: a psycholinguistic perspective on the development of gender systems. SLE 2019: 52nd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Leipzig University, 21-24 August 2019. 

Franjieh, Michael and Greville G. Corbett. 27 July 2018. Possessive Classifiers in Central Vanuatu. Vanuatu Languages Conference, Port Vila, Vanuatu. 25 – 27 July 2018.

Grandison, Alexandra, Michael Franjieh and Greville G. Corbett. 26 July 2019.  Optimal categorisation: the cognition and development of nominal classification systems. Poster at CogSci 2019, The 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Montreal, Canada, 24-27 July 2019. [Presented by Alexandra Grandison.]

 

Project members

Prof. Greville G Corbett
Dr. Alexandra Grandison
Dr. Mike Franjieh

Consultants:
Dr. Isabelle Bril (Paris, CNRS)
Dr. Anne-Laure Dotte (New Caledonia)
Dr. Sonja Eisenbeiss (Cologne)
Prof. Sebastian Fedden (Paris, Sorbonne) 
Dr. Eleanor Ridge (Massey University)

Stakeholders:
Prof. Robert Early (Vanuatu, USP)
Helen Tamtam (Vanuatu, CDU)
Albert Sio (New Caledonia)

 

Period of award:

1 September 2018 - 31 August 2023

Funder

ESRC

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