Features: Perspectives on a Key Notion in Linguistics

This book presents a critical overview of current work on linguistic features and establishes new bases for their use in the study and understanding of language.

Anna Kibort is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Linguistics, University of Cambridge, and Visiting Researcher in the Surrey Morphology Group, University of Surrey. Her research interests are in morphosyntax and linguistic typology. She is a contributing author in TheCambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences, edited by Patrick Hogan (forthcoming).

Greville Corbett is Distinguished Professor of Linguistics, University of Surrey. He is the editor, along with Bernard Comrie, of The Slavonic Languages (Routledge 1993) and author of Gender (CUP 1991), Number (CUP 2000), Agreement (CUP 2006), and The Syntax-Morphology Interface: a study ofsyncretism, along with Matthew Baerman and Dunstan Brown (CUP 2005).