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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Dear connoisseurs of nominal classification,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">my name is Sebastian Fedden. I am a research fellow at the Surrey Morphology Group, where I’m currently working on the AHRC Project: Combining Gender and Classifiers in Natural Language (grant AH/K003194/1) with Greville
Corbett, Dunstan Brown and Matthew Baerman. In this project we investigate languages which combine gender and classifiers, their typology and how the two systems interact in assignment of gender or class and in reference tracking in discourse. I was the main
organizer of the Surrey workshop “Gender and classifiers: Cross-linguistic perspectives” in January.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">My interest in nominal classification and categorization more general goes back to my days as a student when I was lucky enough to attend one of Gunter Senft (see his earlier email) seminars on nominal classification.
In the following years, still a student, I worked on gender and verbal classifiers (as in Navajo or Cherokee), until my PhD project in Melbourne brought me into contact with a language which had both gender and a second system which has properties of gender
and properties of classifier systems. I have described both in detail in my 2011 grammar of Mian, published by De Gruyter Mouton. Needless to say, Mian is a key language in our current project.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sebastian<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Dr Sebastian Fedden</span><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Surrey Morphology Group</span><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">School of English and Languages</span><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">University of Surrey</span><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7XH</span><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">United Kingdom</span><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="http://www.surrey.ac.uk/englishandlanguages/staff_list/complete_staff_list/sebastian_fedden/index.htm"><span style="color:blue">Personal website</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">AHRC Project:</span><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">
<a href="http://www.surrey.ac.uk/englishandlanguages/research/smg/researchprojects/combining_gender_and_classifiers_in_natural_language.htm">
<span style="color:blue">Combining Gender and Classifiers in Natural Language (grant AH/K003194/1)</span></a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">AHRC/ESF(EuroBabel) Project:</span><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">
<a href="http://www.alor-pantar.surrey.ac.uk/"><span style="color:blue">Alor-Pantar languages: origins and theoretical impact (grant AH/H500251/1)</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">A Grammar of Mian. </span></i><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Winner of the 2013 ALT Gabelentz Award<i>.
</i></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Available through all good bookshops, or direct from</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">
<a href="http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/179274?rskey=8aql8G&result=1&q=fedden">
<span style="color:blue">De Gruyter Mouton</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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