Table of contents:
- Research topics
- Selected grants
- Teaching
- Supervision
- Administration
- Conference organisation
- Publications
- Recent presentations
- Publications available in HAL
Research topics
• Language typology
• Canonical typology
• Papuan languages and linguistics
• Categorization, language and cognition
• Systems of nominal classification (gender and classifiers)
• Agreement
• Argument realization and alignment
Selected grants
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- Partner investigator: Complex Predicates in Languages: Emergence, Typology, Evolution (comPLETE), binational project ANR-DFG; Principal Investigators Martine Vanhove, Alexandre François, Walter Bisang, Andrej Malchukov (CNRS, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz), 2021-24.
- Valorisation du corpus de langue mian, au travers de la Collection Pangloss, Labex-EFL Action Défis sociétaux (Défi des langues minoritaires et des langues en danger), 2020-21.
- Consultant in Optimal categorisation: the origin and nature of gender from a psycholinguistic perspective (ESRC UK Grant RN0362A); Principal Investigator Greville G. Corbett, University of Surrey), 2018-22.
- Incomplete systems: Evidence from sporadic agreement, Research Incubator grant from the University of Sydney, 2015.
- Combining gender and classifiers in natural language, (with Greville G. Corbett, Dunstan Brown and Matthew Baerman); Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK)/Research Grant, 2013-2016.
Keywords
categorization – classifiers – gender – grammaticography – historical linguistics – morphology – morphosyntax – Papuan languages – psycholinguistics – typology
Mian – Skonga – Wagarabai – Telefol – Tifal – Faiwol – Bimin – Adang – Tok Pisin – German
Teaching
Courses taught at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (2022-24)
Master – Lecture – Soziolinguistik (1,5h per week = 22,5 hours total, face-to-face)
Master – Lecture – Sprachstruktur (1,5h per week = 22,5 hours total, face-to-face)
Master – Seminar – Feldforschung (1,5h per week = 22,5 hours total, face-to-face)
Master – Seminar – Kategorisierung in Sprache und Kognition (1,5h per week = 22,5 hours total, face-to-face)
Master – Lecture – Sprachtypologie (1,5h per week = 22,5 hours total, face-to-face)
Master – Seminar – Papuasprachen (1,5h per week = 22,5 hours total, face-to-face)
Bachelor – Lecture – Sprachtypologie und Kognition 1 (1,5h per week = 22,5 hours total, face-to-face)
Courses given at Sorbonne Nouvelle (2017-2022):
Master – Seminar – Introduction to the structure of a non-Indo-European language (2 hrs per week, face-to-face and distance learning)
Master – Seminar – Anglais pour sciences humaines 1 (1.5 hrs per week, face-to-face)
Master – Seminar – Anglais pour sciences humaines 2 (1.5 hrs per week, face-to-face and distance learning)
Undergrad – Lecture – Typologie linguistique (1.5 hrs per week, face-to-face and distance learning)
Undergrad – Lecture – Morphologie (1.5 hrs per week, face-to-face and distance learning)
Undergrad – Lecture – Linguistique aréale (1.5 hrs per week, face-to-face)
Courses given at the University of Sydney (2015-2016):
Master – Seminar – Structure of language (2 hrs face-to-face)
Master – Seminar – Sociolinguistics (2 hrs face-to-face)
Undergrad – Lecture – Syntax (2 hrs + 2 hrs of tutorials face-to-face)
Undergrad – Lecture – Phonetics and Phonology (2 hrs face-to-face)
Undergrad – Lecture – Phonology (2 hrs face-to-face)
Undergrad – Seminar – Language Diversity and Universals (2 hrs face-to-face)
Undergrad – Seminar – Categorization in language and cognition (2 hrs face-to-face)
All teaching (pdf)
Supervision
– Moisés A. Veláquez, from 2020: “Grammaire du kibiri, un isolat menacé en Papouasie-Nouvelle- Guinée” (Ph.D. thesis) (Sorbonne Nouvelle)
– Neige Rochant, from 2019: “A grammar of Baga Pukur, an Atlantic language of Guinea” (Ph.D. thesis) (Sorbonne Nouvelle)
Administration
– Member of the conseil de gestion (ILPGA, Sorbonne Nouvelle)
– Member of the collège de spécialistes (section 7) (Language sciences: general linguistics and phonetics) (Sorbonne Nouvelle)
– Representative of LACITO at the Doctoral College (ED 622 Sciences du langage)
– Responsible for the Master Language Sciences (ILPGA, Sorbonne Nouvelle)
– Editor of LACITO Publications (Series Linguistic Diversity), a new open-access platform
– Member of the editorial board of Italian Journal of Linguistics
– Co-responsibility « La typologie du genre grammatical » (axe 2 – Labex-EFL) and « Typologie des systèmes flexionnels à flexion non canonique » (axe 3 – Labex-EFL)
Conference organisation
- Workshop “Uninflectedness” (organisé par Sebastian Fedden (LACITO/Sorbonne Nouvelle) & Enrique Palancar (SeDyl)) dans le cadre de la rencontre annuelle de la Société allemande de linguistique (DGfS) à Cologne, mars 2023.
- Descriptive Grammars and Typology II, Paris, December 2021 (organizing committee, with Neige Rochant, Yann le Moullec, Guillaume Segerer and Jeanne Zerner).
- 13th Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics Conference (APLL 13), University of Edinburgh, June 2021 (program committee).
- Current Trends in Papuan Linguistics, LACITO/INALCO, Paris, 11-12 December 2019 (organizing committee, with Sylvain Loiseau and Antoinette Schapper).
- Workshop “New approaches to the typology of inflection systems”, Fédération Typologie et Universaux Linguistiques, University of Chicago Center in Paris, November 2018 (organizing committee, with Olivier Bonami).
- 9th Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics Conference (APLL 9), LACITO, Paris, June 2017 (program committee).
- Gender and classifiers: diachrony and variation, University of Surrey, January 2016 (organizing committee).
- Workshop “Non-canonical gender systems”, 48th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE), University of Leiden, September 2015 (organizing committee, with Jenny Audring).
Publications
In the media
— Time to Think, University of Surrey Featured Story, 24 June 2013..
Videos
— (with Timothy Feist). Nominal classification in Mian, a Papuan language of New Guinea – Part 2. Surrey Morphology Group. 2016, Video clip, length 4:34 mins. [http://www.mian-kilivila.surrey.ac.uk]
— Nominal classification in Mian, a Papuan language of New Guinea. Video clip. Surrey Morphology Group, Video clip, 2015, Length 3:48 mins. [http://www.mian-kilivila.surrey.ac.uk]
Website
— Fedden, Sebastian, Timothy Feist, Matthew Baerman, Dunstan Brown, Greville G. Corbett and Gunter Senft. 2015. Mian and Kilivila Collection. University of Surrey. http://dx.doi.org/10.15126/SMG.30/1.
All publications (pdf)
Recent presentations
All presentations (pdf)
Invited
- “Kanonische Typologie: Wie man Genus und Klassifikatoren in Papua-Sprachen entwirrt”, eingeladener Vortrag, Linguistisches Kolloquium, Université Louis-et-Maximilien de Munich, 8 février 2023.
– « Les langues papoues – synchronie, diachronie, diversité », Société de Linguistique de Paris, 19 novembre 2022. - “Typology meets data-mining: the German gender system”, September 2021 (with Matías Guzmán Naranjo and Greville G. Corbett), Keynote at SLE 2021, 54th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Athens/SLE 2021 platform.
- “Gender: New Horizons”, Abralin Ao Vivo, July 2020 (with Greville G. Corbett, Michael Franjieh, Alexandra Grandison and Erich Round) (https://aovivo.abralin.org/en/lives/greville-corbett- 2/).
At conferences
- « Complex predicates in Mian », project meeting ComPLETE (projet binational ANR-DFG), Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität de Mayence, 16 novembre 2022.
- “Reduced agreement: a system that some elements ignore”, 20th International Morphology Meeting, Budapest, 1 September 2022 (with Tania Paciaroni and Greville G. Corbett).
- “Reduced agreement: a typological approach”, 55th Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europea, Bucharest, 26. August 2022 (with Tania Paciaroni).
- “Reduced agreement: mysterious gaps in the system”, 13th Mediterranean Morphology Meeting, Rhodes, 20. Mai 2022 (with Tania Paciaroni and Greville G. Corbett).
- “Typological richness of the German gender system revealed by data mining”, International Symposium of Morphology (ISMo) 2021 Paris/Online, September 2021 (with Matías Guzmán Naranjo und Greville G. Corbett).
- “Morphological gaps and syntax: Agreement in Mian discourse”, 43. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS): Modell und Evidenz, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg im Breisgau, Workshop 1: Grammatical Gaps: Definition, Typology and Theory, February 2021.
- “Agreement in Mian discourse”, Vielfaltslinguistik IV, University of Bremen. (Meeting cancelled due to Covid-19).
- “Agreement and argument realization in Mian discourse”, SLE 2020: 53rd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea. Bucharest/SLE 2020 Platform, August/September 2020.
- “German gender: A statistical approach”, SLE 2020: 53rd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea. Bucharest/SLE 2020 Platform, August/September 2020 (with Greville G. Corbett).
Recent publications
Books
- Evans, Nicholas D. and Sebastian Fedden (eds.). (contract signed) The Oxford Guide to the Papuan Languages. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Fedden, Sebastian, Jenny Audring and Greville G. Corbett (eds.) 2018. Non-canonical gender systems. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (presented here)
- Fedden, Sebastian. 2011. A grammar of Mian. Mouton Grammar Library 55. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. xxv + 604pp.
Peer-reviewed articles
- Fedden, Sebastian. 2022. Agreement and argument realization in Mian discourse. T. Paciaroni, A. Idone et M. Loporcaro (eds.), The Many Facets of Agreement. Numéro spécial of Word Structure 15/3, p. 283-304. [DOI: 10.3366/word.2022.0211]
- Allassonnière-Tang, Marc, Dunstan P. Brown and Sebastian Fedden. 2021. Testing the dominance of semantics in Mian gender assignment: Three machine learning models. Oceanic Linguistics 60(2): 1-33.
- Fedden, Sebastian. 2020. Morphology in Trans New Guinea Languages. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [DOI:10.1093/acrefore/9780199384655.013.633]
Book chapters
- Fedden, Sebastian (accepted). Historical morphology in Papuan languages. In Peter Arkadiev and Franz Rainer (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Historical Morphology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Fedden, Sebastian (accepted). Telefol grammar sketch. In Nicholas Evans and Sebastian Fedden (eds.), The Oxford Guide to the Papuan Languages. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Fedden, Sebastian (with Nicholas Evans) (accepted). Tense, aspect and mood systems. In Nicholas Evans and Sebastian Fedden (Hrsg.), The Oxford Guide to the Papuan Languages. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Fedden, Sebastian (accepted). Nominal classification in Papuan languages. In N. Evans et S. Fedden (eds.). The Oxford Guide to the Papuan Languages. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Fedden, Sebastian. 2020. Grammaticalization in Mountain Ok (Papua New Guinea). In Walter Bisang and Andrej Malchukov (eds.), Grammaticalization scenarios. Areal patterns and cross-linguistic variation. A comparative handbook (Comparative Handbooks of Linguistics 4), 1007-1041. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.
All publications (pdf)