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.