Greville G. Corbett

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf Linguist
gptkbp:academicAdvisor gptkb:John_Lyons
gptkb:Richard_Hudson
Professor of Linguistics
Head_of_Department_of_Linguistics
gptkbp:affiliation gptkb:University_of_Surrey
gptkbp:awards gptkb:Fellow_of_the_British_Academy
Fellow_of_the_Linguistic_Society_of_America
gptkbp:birthDate 1949-01-01
gptkbp:birthPlace gptkb:England
gptkbp:collaborations gptkb:Andrew_Spencer
Bernard Comrie
gptkbp:contribution Analyzed gender systems in languages
Developed theories on grammatical number
Published extensively on linguistic theory
gptkbp:editor gptkb:Journal_of_Linguistics
gptkbp:education gptkb:University_of_Cambridge
gptkb:University_of_Edinburgh
gptkbp:field Linguistics
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Greville G. Corbett
gptkbp:influenced Linguistic_typology
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:Noam_Chomsky
gptkbp:knownFor Research on morphology
Work on grammatical gender
gptkbp:languageSpoken English
French
German
gptkbp:nationality British
gptkbp:notableWorks Number in Grammar
Gender_in_English
gptkbp:releaseYear 1991
2000
2003
2012
2015
2019
2021
gptkbp:researchInterest Semantics
Morphology
Syntax
Grammatical_Gender_Project
Morphological_Typology_Project
gptkbp:website http://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/greville-corbett