Matthew Baerman
List of John Benjamins publications for which Matthew Baerman plays a role.
Articles
Agreement in Kadu: Inflectional merger as morphosyntactic abstraction Diachronica 40:1, pp. 1–29 | Article
2023 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
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
2021 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