Andrew Hippisley

Andrew Hippisley is the Dean of the Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Wichita State University. His academic focus lies at the intersection of morphology and grammatical typology, with a particular emphasis on defaults-based theoretical frameworks such as Network Morphology. He has contributed significantly to the study of inflectional systems, gender assignment, and morphosyntactic features across languages.

His research explores topics like paradigm uniformity, sporadic agreement phenomena, and the interaction between syntax, semantics, and morphology. He has co-edited influential volumes such as Morphological Perspectives: Papers in Honour of Greville G. Corbett (2019) and authored foundational works like Network Morphology: A Defaults-Based Theory of Word Structure (2012). His work often integrates computational methods for language documentation and analysis, including the development of databases like the Surrey Deponency Databases (2006) and Surrey Suppletion Database (2004).

Key research themes include historical changes in lexical systems (e.g., Russian suppletion), cross-linguistic typology of grammatical number, and formal semantic approaches to morphological licensing. His contributions bridge theoretical linguistics, computational linguistics, and language documentation.