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Greville G. Corbett is a Distinguished Professor of Linguistics at the University of Surrey, with a concurrent appointment in Russian Language. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, Member of Academia Europaea, and Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences, reflecting his status as a leading figure in linguistic typology and morphology.
- Education: PhD in Russian/Linguistics (University of Birmingham, 1976), M.A. Russian with Linguistics (Birmingham, 1971), B.A. French and Russian (Birmingham, 1970)
- Key Collaborations: ARC Centre of Excellence for Dynamics of Language, Centre for Advanced Study (Norway), and extensive international partnerships in Slavonic, Daghestanian, and Oceanic language studies
His research spans three major areas: Canonical Typology (exploring deep linguistic similarities across systems), Morphosyntactic Features (gender, number, case, person), and Inflectional Morphology (notably developing Network Morphology with Norman Fraser). Recent work includes analyzing possessive classifiers in Vanuatu and New Caledonia languages.
Articles highlight his expertise in agreement systems (revisiting the Agreement Hierarchy), split phenomena (internal/external), color term typology, and acoustic analysis of English plurals. His methodological innovations include free-listing experiments and visualizing complex inflectional paradigms.
Scientific honors include:
- ESRC Professorial Research Fellowship (2004-2007)
- European Research Council Advanced Grant (2009-2014)
- Center for Advanced Study Fellowship (2001)
- ALT Pāṇini Award Jury Membership (2007)
He has supervised numerous PhD students, including Dunstan Brown (Network Morphology), Jenny Audring (Pronoun Gender), and Alison Long (Russian Adjectives), while maintaining active roles in editorial boards and international linguistic panels.
