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Dunstan Brown
Anniversary Professor

Profile

Biography

Dunstan Brown is a morphologist and typologist. He is interested in complex morphological systems and understanding the world’s linguistic diversity.

Career

  • Surrey University
    • Research Fellow 1992-1998
    • Foundation Fund Lecturer in Linguistics and Russian Language 1998-2001
    • Lecturer in Linguistics and Russian Language 2001-2005
    • Senior Lecturer in Linguistics 2005-2012
    • Professor in Linguistics April 2012-Sept. 2012
  • University of York
    • Anniversary Professor 2012-2016
    • Anniversary Professor and Head of the Department of Language and Linguistic Science 2016-2021
    • Anniversary Professor 2021-

Research

Projects

Matches and mismatches in nominal morphology and agreement: Learning from the acquisition of Eegimaa

Period of award: April 2017 to July 2020
Grant: ESRC & AHRC

Investigators: Dunstan Brown, Serge Sagna, Marilyn Vihman

Project outputs

  • Preserving local culture and enabling wider communication: the case of Eegimaa

Period of award: February and March 2017

Grant: Newton Fund

Investigators: Dunstan Brown and Serge Sagna

Recently Completed Projects (since 2010)

Research group(s)

Available PhD research projects

I am happy to supervise research projects on morphology, including computational and theoretical approaches, morphology-syntax interaction and typology.

Contact details

Dunstan Brown
Anniversary Professor
Department of Language and Linguistic Science
Vanbrugh College C Block
Room: V/B/121

Tel: (0)1904 322653

Teaching

Undergraduate

Semester 1:

  • Morphology (LAN00083H)

Semester 2:

  • English Corpus Linguistics (LAN00032H)
  • Typology: Structures of the World’s Languages (LAN00052H)

Postgraduate

  • Research Training Seminar (session on using corpora)