Dr Dunstan Brown
Senior Lecturer in Linguistics
Qualifications: Ph.D in Linguistics (University of Surrey). MLing (University of Manchester). BA in Modern Languages (University of Manchester)
Email: d.brown@surrey.ac.uk
Phone: Work: 01483 68 9957
Room no: 01 AC 05
Further information
Biography
Chair of Dept. Research Committee
Senior Lecturer in Linguistics
Member of the Surrey Morphology Group
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Research Interests
- Morphology
- Morphology-Syntax interaction
- Computational Linguistics
- Ontologies for Linguistics
- Typology
- Oceanic Language
- Slavonic Languages
Publications
Journal articles
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(2012) 'Defining ‘periphrasis’: key notions'. Morphology,
[ Status: Accepted ] - . (2010) 'Changing semantic factors in case selection: Russian evidence from the last two centuries'. Morphology, Online First, pp. 1-20.
- . (2008) 'Predicate nouns in Russian'. Russian Linguistics, 32, pp. 99-113.
- . (2008) 'Review: Gereon Müller, Lutz Gunkel and Gisela Zifonun (eds), Explorations in nominal inflection. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2004'. Word Structure, 1, pp. 237-244.
- . (2007) 'Heads in Oceanic indirect possession'. Oceanic Linguistics, 46, pp. 200-209.
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(2007) 'The Alignment of Form and Function: Corpus-based evidence from Russian'. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 12, pp. 511-534.Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/1320/
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(2007) 'Peripheral functions and overdifferentiation: The Russian second locative'. Russian Linguistics, 31 (1), pp. 61-76.Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/1334/
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(2004) 'Suppletion: Frequency, categories and distribution of stems'. Studies in Language, 28 (2), pp. 387-418.Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/2229/
- . (2004) 'Review: Jae Jung Song, Linguistic typology: morphology and syntax. Harlow: Longman'. Journal of Linguistics 40, , pp. 198-200.
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(2004) 'Review: R.M.W. Dixon and Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald (eds), Word: a cross-linguistic typology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press'. Journal of Linguistics, 40, pp. 409-415.Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/1327/
- . (2002) 'The Semantics of Gender in Mayali: partially parallel systems and formal implementation'. Language, 78 (1), pp. 111-155.
- . (1998) 'Defining 'subgender': virile and devirilised nouns in Polish'. Lingua, 104, pp. 187-233.
- . (1997) 'Review: Robert Beard, Lexeme-Morpheme Base Morphology. A General Theory of Inflection and Word Formation. Albany: State University of New York Press'. Linguistics, 35, pp. 597-600.
- . (1996) 'Russian Noun Stress and Network Morphology'. Linguistics, 34 (1), pp. 53-107.
- . (1995) 'Setevaja morfologija i russkaja glagol'naja sistema'. ser. 9. Filologija Edition. Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta, ser. 9. Filologija, 6, pp. 91-108.
- . (1995) 'Review: Dominiek Sandra, Morphology in the reader's mental lexicon. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1994'. Lexicology, 2, pp. 332-333.
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(1994) 'Conflict in Russian Genitive Plural Assignment: A
Solution Represented in DATR'. Slavica Publishers Journal of Slavic Linguistics, 2 (1), pp. 48-76.Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/7522/
Conference papers
- . (2010) 'Inflectional Defaults and Principal Parts: an Empirical Investigation'. In: Stefan Müller (ed.) Stanford : CSLI Proceedings of the HPSG10 Conference, Université Paris Diderot, Paris 7, France: 17th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar HPSG10, pp. 234-254. [Available at: http://csli-publications.stanford.edu/HPSG/2010/toc.shtml], pp. 234-254.
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(2004) 'Inflectional Syncretism and Corpora'. Geneva : 5th International Workshop on Linguistically Interpreted Corpora (LINC-04) held at the 20th International Conference on Computational LinguisticsFull text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/1059/
- . (2003) 'A large-scale inheritance based morphological lexicon for Russian'. Budapest : EACL Budapest: In: T. Erjavec and D. Vitas (eds.) Proceedings of the Workshop on morphological processing of Slavic Languages, 10th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 9-16.
- . (2003) 'Russian Lemmatisation with DATR'. Bratislava : Slovko '03
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(2002) 'A typological database of agreement'. Las Palmas, Spain : Las Palmas: LREC2002, the Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, pp. pp1843-pp1846.Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/1070/
- . (2001) 'Constructing a typological database for inflectional morphology: the SMG database for syncretism.'. Institute for Research in Cognitive Science, University of Pennsylvania : Institute for Research in Cognitive Science, University of Pennsylvania Proceedings of the IRCS/National Science Foundation Workshop on Linguistic Databases, Philadelphia: IRCS/National Science Foundation Workshop on Linguistic Databases, pp. 56-64.
- . (1998) 'Emu Divorce: A Unified Account of Gender and Noun Class Assignment in Mayali'. Chicago Linguistic Society In: M. Catherine Gruber, Derrick Higgins, Kenneth S. Olson & Tamra Wysocki (eds). Papers from 34th Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, Chicago: 34th Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, pp. 147-172.
Books
- . (2012) Network Morphology. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
- . (2010) (Eds.) Defective Paradigms: missing forms and what they tell us. Oxford : Oxford University Press. 163, pp. 1-216.
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(2007) Slovar´ arčinskogo jazyka (arčinsko-russko-anglijskij) [A dictionary of Archi: Archi-Russian-English]. Makhachkala : Delovoj Mir, xxiv + 410 pp. Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/1356/
- . (2007) (Eds.) Deponency and morphological mismatches. Oxford University Press (Proceedings of the British Academy 145)
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(2005) The Syntax-Morphology Interface: a Study of Syncretism. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. xix + 281pp. Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/1307/
- . (2003) (Eds.) Agreement: A Typological Perspective. Special Issue of Transactions of the Philological Society 101 (2).. Oxford: Blackwell
Book chapters
- . (2011) 'Morphological Typology. In: Jae Jung Song (ed.) The Handbook of Linguistic Typology, 487-503'. in Song JJ (ed.) Handbook of Linguistic Typology Oxford : Oxford University Press Article number 22 , pp. 487-503.
- . (2010) 'Morphosyntactic Change in Russian: A Corpus-based Approach'. in Hansen B, Grković-Major J (eds.) Diachronic Slavic Syntax: gradual changes in focus München-Berlin-Wien : Verlag Otto Sagner 74, pp. 109-119.
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(2009) 'Databases designed for investigating specific phenomena.'. in Everaert M, Musgrave S, Dimitriadis A (eds.) The Use of Databases in Cross-Linguistic Studies
Mouton De Gruyter 41, pp. 117-154.Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/1335/
- . (2005) 'Syncretism in Verbal Person/Number Marking. In: M. Haspelmath, M. Dryer, D. Gil and B. Comrie (eds.) World Atlas of Language Structures'. in Martin Haspelmath MSD (ed.) The World Atlas of Language Structures Oxford University Press , pp. 122-125.
- . (2005) 'Case Syncretism. In: M. Haspelmath, M. Dryer, D. Gil and B. Comrie (eds.) World Atlas of Language Structures'. in Martin Haspelmath MSD (ed.) The World Atlas of Language Structures Oxford : Oxford University Press , pp. 118-121.
- . (2005) 'Declension and Conjugation. In: D. A. Cruse, M. Job and P. L. Lutzeier (eds) Handbuch der Lexikologie.'. in D. Alan Cruse FH (ed.) Lexicology. An international handbook on the nature and structure of words and vocabularies, Volume 2, Berlin/New York : Mouton De Gruyter , pp. 1646-1655.
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(2002) 'Case syncretism in and out of Indo-European.'. in Andronis M, Ball C, Elston H, Neuvel S (eds.) Papers from the 37th Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society
Chicago : Chicago Linguistic Society 1, pp. 15-28.Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/1062/
- . (2002) 'Domains of syncretism: a demonstration of the autonomy of morphology'. in Andronis M, Ball C, Elston H, Neuvel S (eds.) CLS 37: The Panels: 2001: Proceedings from the Parasessions of the 37th Meeting of the Chicago linguistics Society. Vol 37-2, 385-398 Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society
- . (2002) 'Morphology, typology, computation. In: S. Bendjaballah, W.U. Dressler, O.E. Pfeiffer and M. Voeikova (eds) Morphology 2000, Selected papers from the 9th Morphology Meeting, Vienna, 24-25 February 2000'. in Bendjaballah S, Dressler U, Pfeiffer OE, Voeikova M (eds.) Morphology 2000: Selected Papers from the 9th Morphology Meeting, Vienna 24-28 February 2000 Amsterdam : Benjamins , pp. 91-104.
- . (2001) 'Dalabon pronominal prefixes and the typology of syncretism: a Network Morphology analysis. In: G. Booij and J. van Marle (eds) Yearbook of Morphology 2000'. in Marle GBJV (ed.) Yearbook of Morphology 2000 Dordrecht : Kluwer , pp. 187-231.
- . (2001) 'Case syncretism in and out of Indo-European.'. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society
- . (2001) 'Frequency, regularity and the paradigm: a perspective from Russian on a complex relation. In: J. Bybee and P. Hopper (eds) Frequency and the Emergence of Linguistic Structure'. in Hopper JBAP (ed.) Frequency and the Emergence of Linguistic Structure Amsterdam : John Benjamins , pp. 201-226.
- . (2001) 'Domains of syncretism: a demonstration of the autonomy of morphology. In: M. Andronis, C. Ball, H. Elston and S. Neuvel (eds.) CLS 37: The Panels. Papers from the 37th Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, Vol. 2'. in Meeting CLS, Society CL (eds.) CLS 37: The Panels. Papers from the 37th Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, Vol. 2 , pp. 385-398.
- . (1998) 'Stem Indexing and Morphonological Selection in the Russian Verb.In: R. Fabri, A. Ortmann and T. Parodi (eds) Models of Inflection'. in Fabri R, Ortmann A, Parodi T (eds.) Models of Inflection Tübingen : Niemeyer , pp. 161-221.
Reports
- . (2003) Russian Lemmatisation with DATR.
Internet publications
- . (2011) Surrey Periphrasis Database [Available at: http://www.smg.surrey.ac.uk/Peri/].
- . (2009) The Surrey Defectiveness Database (consisting of a Typological Database and a 100-language Survey) [Available at: http://www.defectiveness.surrey.ac.uk/ ].
- . (2009) Database of Short Term Morphosyntactic Change: variation in Russian 1801-200. [Available at: http://www.surrey.ac.uk/LIS/SMG/STMC/ ].
- . (2008) Turning Owners into Actors. Possessive morphology as subject-indexing in the languages of the Bougainville region [Available at: http://www.smg.surrey.ac.uk/NWS/ ].
- . (2007) A Dictionary of the Languages of the Archi villages, south Daghestan [Available at: http://www.smg.surrey.ac.uk/archi/linguists/index.aspx ].
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(2006) The Surrey Deponency databases [Available at: http://www.smg.surrey.ac.uk/Deponency/Deponency_home.htm ]. Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/1355/
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(2005) Resources for suppletion: A typological database and a bibliography.. Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/1077/
- . (2004) Suppletion Database. [Available at: http://www.smg.surrey.ac.uk/Suppletion/index.aspx ].
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(2004) The Surrey Suppletion database. Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/1354/
- . (2002) The Surrey Syncretisms Database. [ Available at: www.smg.surrey.ac.uk/Syncretism/index.aspx ].
- . (2002) The Surrey Database of Agreement. [Available at: www.smg.surrey.ac.uk/Agreement/index.aspx ].
Other publications
- . (2008) Archi: A dictionary of the language of the Archi People, Daghestan, Caucasus, with sounds and pictures (reference edition, DVD for Windows).
Posters
- . (2008) Animacy in the development of the Russian predicative adjective in the 19th and 20th centuries. 13th International Morphology Meeting, Vienna
- . (2005) Diachronic processes in Russian morphosyntax (a corpus based approach). Corpora 2006, St Petersburg
Teaching
- Global Diversity in Language and Communication (UG), module co-ordinator
- Global Diversity in Language and Communication (PG), module co-ordinator
Research Grants
See the Surrey Morphology Group projects page.
External Activities
- Committee member, United Kingdom Austronesian Research Group (current)
- External Examiner for UG English Language and Linguistics Programmes, University of Manchester (2006-2010)
- Treasurer Linguistics Assocation of Great Britain (2003-2006)
- Member of ESRC Virtual College (2003-2006)
- Member of ESRC PhD Board of Examiners (2005-2006)
Professional Associations
Dr Brown is member of the following societies:
- Association for Linguistic Typology
- British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies
- Linguistics Association of Great Britain
- Linguistic Society of America
PhD Students
- Scott Collier (supervised with Prof. G. Corbett and Dr. M. Baerman)
- Magdalena Fialkowska (supervised with Prof. G. Corbett)
- Katarzyna Marchewka (supervised with Prof. G. Corbett)
- Alison Long (supervised with Prof. G. Corbett and Dr. M. Baerman)
- Claire Turner (supervised with Prof. G. Corbett)
