Dr Christopher Beedham
Lecturer
school of modern languages
University of St Andrews
United Kingdom
Biography
He is developing a 'method of exceptions and their correlations', in which the researcher takes unexplained lexical exceptions to a grammatical rule or form and uses them as a basis for empirical research
Research Interest
linguistics of modern German (also Russian and English), especially irregular verbs, the passive, structuralism, and methodology
Publications
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Das deutsche Passiv: Aspekt, nicht Genus verbi [The German passive: aspect, not voice]
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Descriptive Versus Generative Grammar: The Passive Beedham, C. 1986 In : Language Sciences. 8, 2, p. 103-128
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The passive in English, German and Russian Beedham, C. 1981 In : Journal of Linguistics. 17, p. 319-327 9 p.
