Matthew Baerman
List of John Benjamins publications for which Matthew Baerman plays a role.
Articles
2025 Semantic factors in case loss: 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
2023 Agreement in Kadu: Inflectional merger as morphosyntactic abstraction Diachronica 40:1, pp. 1–29 | Article
Krongo, a member of the Kadu family (Nuba Mountains, Sudan), has four agreement classes: feminine, masculine, neuter and plural (Reh 1985). Nominal number-marking prefixes play a key role in class assignment: productive plural prefixes trigger plural agreement, and productive singular prefixes… read more
2021 A typological perspective on the loss of inflection* Lost in Change: Causes and processes in the loss of grammatical elements and constructions, Kranich, Svenja and Tine Breban (eds.), pp. 21–50 | Chapter
The loss of inflectional morphology is a diachronic process which has played a major role in shaping our linguistic landscape, but has never been the target of focussed research in the same way that the origin of inflectional morphology has been. We offer here a preliminary typology of the… read more