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Greville G. Corbett

Greville G. Corbett

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
56
Citations
10079
World Ranking
1920
National Ranking
341

Overview

Greville G. Corbett is affiliated with the University of Surrey in the United Kingdom, specializing in Arts and Humanities with a primary focus on Language and Linguistics. Their research spans several subfields including Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Artificial Intelligence, Cultural Studies, and General Social Sciences.

Their scholarly contributions predominantly address themes related to Syntax, Semantics, and Linguistic Variation. Other key topics in their work include Natural Language Processing Techniques, linguistics and terminology studies, Phonetics and Phonology Research, Linguistics and language evolution, Discourse Analysis and Cultural Communication, and Cultural, Linguistic, Economic Studies.

Corbett has published papers in journals and conference venues such as Language, Morphology, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Linguistic Typology, and WORD Structure. Notable recent publications include:

  • "Comparability and measurement in typological science: The bright future for linguistics" (2020) in Linguistic Typology
  • "The duration of word-final s in English: A comparison of regular-plural and pluralia-tantum nouns" (2021) in Morphology
  • "Splits, internal and external, as a window into the nature of features" (2021) in Morphology
  • "The Agreement Hierarchy revisited: The typology of controllers" (2022) in WORD Structure
  • "The Agreement Hierarchy and (generalized) semantic agreement" (2023) in Glossa a journal of general linguistics

Their research collaborations frequently include work with Michael Franjieh, Alexandra Grandison, Marcel Schlechtweg, Sebastian Fedden, and Matías Guzmán Naranjo.

Best Publications

  • Canonical Typology, Suppletion, and Possible Words

    Greville G. Corbett

  • The Syntax-Morphology Interface: A Study of Syncretism

    Matthew Baerman;Dunstan Brown;Greville G. Corbett

  • The agreement hierarchy

    G. G. Corbett

  • Hierarchies, Targets and Controllers: Agreement Patterns in Slavic

    Greville G. Corbett

  • Network morphology: A DATR account of Russian nominal inflection

    Greville G. Corbett;Norman M. Fraser

  • The Morphology/Syntax Interface: Evidence from Possessive Adjectives in Slavonic

    Greville G. Corbett

  • The canonical approach in typology

    Greville G. Corbett

  • Heads in grammatical theory

    Greville G. Corbett;Norman M. Fraser;Scott McGlashan

  • A cross‐cultural study of colour grouping: Evidence for weak linguistic relativity

    Ian R. L. Davies;Greville G. Corbett

  • The basic colour terms of Russian

    Ian Davies;Greville Corbett

  • Gender and Noun Classes

    Greville G. Corbett

  • Universals in the syntax of cardinal numerals

    G.G. Corbett

  • The Slavonic Languages

    Bernard Comrie;Greville G. Corbett

  • Dalabon pronominal prefixes and the typology of syncretism: a Network Morphology analysis

    Nicholas Evans;Dunstan Brown;Greville G. Corbett

  • Gender in Russian: An Account of Gender Specification and Its Relationship to Declension

    Greville G. Corbett

  • 8. Resolution rules: agreement in person, number, and gender

    Greville Corbett

  • Agreement: the range of the phenomenon and the principles of the Surrey Database of Agreement

    Greville G. Corbett

  • Gender, Animacy, and Declensional Class Assignment: A Unified Account for Russian

    Norman M. Fraser;Greville G. Corbett

  • A cross cultural study of English and Setswana speakers on a colour triads task: a test of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.

    Ian R. L. Davies;Paul T. Sowden;David T. Jerrett;Tiny Jertett

  • Comparability and measurement in typological science: the bright future for linguistics

    Erich R. Round;Greville G. Corbett

  • Deponency and morphological mismatches

    Matthew Baerman;Greville G. Corbett;Dunstan Brown;Andrew Hippisley

  • Canonical inflectional classes.

    Greville G. Corbett

  • The Semantics of Gender in Mayali: Partially Parallel Systems and Formal Implementation

    Nicholas Evans;Dunstan Brown;Greville G. Corbett

  • Gender and classifiers in concurrent systems: Refining the typology of nominal classification

    Sebastian Fedden;Greville G. Corbett

Frequent Co-Authors

Nicholas Evans
Nicholas Evans Australian National University
Morten H. Christiansen
Morten H. Christiansen Cornell University
Elena Lieven
Elena Lieven University of Manchester
Larry M. Hyman
Larry M. Hyman University of California, Berkeley
Maria Polinsky
Maria Polinsky University of Maryland, College Park
N. J. Enfield
N. J. Enfield University of Sydney
Bernard Comrie
Bernard Comrie University of California, Santa Barbara

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