Case and Grammatical Relations: Studies in honor of Bernard Comrie
Edited by Greville G. Corbett and Michael Noonan
[Typological Studies in Language, 81] 2008. ix, 290 pp.
Greville G. Corbett
List of John Benjamins publications for which Greville G. Corbett plays a role.
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Subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
2025 日本言語政策学会 / Japan Association for Language Policy. 言語政策 / Language
Policy 10. 2014: The Serbian-Bulgarian dialectal continuum Historical Linguistics 2022: Selected papers from the 25th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Oxford, 1–5 August 2022, Kennard, Holly, Emily Lindsay-Smith, Aditi Lahiri and Martin Maiden (eds.), pp. 166–183 | Chapter
Policy 10. 2014: The Serbian-Bulgarian dialectal continuum Historical Linguistics 2022: Selected papers from the 25th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Oxford, 1–5 August 2022, Kennard, Holly, Emily Lindsay-Smith, Aditi Lahiri and Martin Maiden (eds.), pp. 166–183 | Chapter
The South Slavic dialect continuum formed by Serbian and Bulgarian provides a fine environment to investigate case loss. Different points on this continuum show varying degrees of case loss: standard Serbian represents a conservative variety with six cases, and standard Bulgarian represents an… read more
2021 Chapter 10. Feature-based competition: A thousand years of Slavonic possessives All Things Morphology: Its independence and its interfaces, Moradi, Sedigheh, Marcia Haag, Janie Rees-Miller and Andrija Petrovic (eds.), pp. 171–198 | Chapter
Competition takes many forms. A newly identified type of competition involves the featural specification of one of the competitors as a key factor. In the particular instance treated here, whether a given item has a competitor depends on its number (and sometimes its person). We focus on the use… read more
2012 Grammatical relations in a typology of agreement systems Argument Structure and Grammatical Relations: A crosslinguistic typology, Suihkonen, Pirkko, Bernard Comrie and Valery Solovyev (eds.), pp. 37–54 | Article
It has been suggested that grammatical relations should be sufficient to determine agreement relations within the clausal domain. Three types of counter-example to this proposal are presented. Then evidence is presented which suggests that the rules for agreement require access to thematic roles… read more
2008 Determining morphosyntactic feature values: The case of case Case and Grammatical Relations: Studies in honor of Bernard Comrie, Corbett, Greville G. and Michael Noonan (eds.), pp. 1–34 | Article
Determining the number of cases (case values) in a given language may be a challenging analytical task. In establishing the techniques, special attention has been devoted to Russian, since it exhibits a whole set of difficult problems. It has been claimed to have as few as six case values or as… read more
2008 The basic colour terms of Lower Sorbian and Upper Sorbian and their typological relevance Studies in Language 32:1, pp. 56–92 | Article
Berlin & Kay’s basic colour term framework claims that there is an ordering in the diachronic development of languages’ colour systems. One generalisation is that primary colours, WHITE, BLACK, RED, YELLOW, GREEN, BLUE, are lexicalised before derived colours, which are perceptual blends, e.g.… read more
2007 The alignment of form and function: Corpus-based evidence from Russian International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 12:4, pp. 511–534 | Article
This paper analyses constraints on inflectional syncretism and inflectional allomorphy using frequency information. Syncretism arises where one form is associated with more than one function, whereas inflectional allomorphy occurs where there is more than one inflectional class, and a single… read more
2005 The canonical approach in typology* Linguistic Diversity and Language Theories, Frajzyngier, Zygmunt, Adam Hodges and David S. Rood (eds.), pp. 25–49 | Article
2004 Suppletion: Frequency, categories and distribution of stems Studies in Language 28:2, pp. 387–418 | Article
Suppletion is where the word-forms of the same lexeme have phonologically distinct stems. A study of thirty languages shows it to be surprisingly widespread, suggesting resistance to the pressure of paradigmatic levelling. While a major factor in its preservation appears to be the high frequency… read more
2002 7. Morphology, typology, computation Morphology 2000: Selected papers from the 9th Morphology Meeting, Vienna, 24–28 February 2000, Bendjaballah, Sabrina, Wolfgang U. Dressler, Oskar E. Pfeiffer and Maria D. Voeikova (eds.), pp. 91–104 | Chapter
2001 Frequency, regularity and the paradigm: A perspective from Russian on a complex relation Frequency and the Emergence of Linguistic Structure, Bybee, Joan L. and Paul J. Hopper (eds.), pp. 201–226 | Article
1999 The Effect of Noun Incorporation on Argument Structure Boundaries of Morphology and Syntax, Mereu, Lunella (ed.), pp. 49–72 | Article
1995 Linguistic and Behavioural Measures for Ranking Basic Colour Terms Studies in Language 19:2, pp. 301–357 | Article
We report an attempt to find more objective measures for identifying basic colour terms. We investigate the types of measure available, both linguistic and behavioural, and the statistical techniques for establishing the closeness of fit with the predictions derived from Berlin and Kay. This leads… read more