David Fertig
Professor
Director of
Graduate Studies
Director of the
German Language Program
Department of Linguistics
Dept. Office: 609 Baldy Hall, Buffalo NY 14260-1030
Dept. Phone: 716-645-2177 Fax: 716-645-3825
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Research
Recent books:
(author)
Analogy and Morphological Change
(Edinburgh University Press, 2013)
(contributor)
Hermann Paul's 'Principles of Language History' Revisited
(de Gruyter, 2015)
Some (so far) unpublished papers:
The Regularization-Through-Derivation Effect and the Historical Development of Verbs in the West Germanic Languages
Some recent articles:
Morphological Change Through Phonological Analogy: 2nd Person Singular
-s → -st
and Related Developments in Germanic
(
Journal of Germanic Linguistics
, 2019)
Mechanisms of paradigm leveling and the role of universal preferences in morphophonological change
(
Diachronica
, 2016)
Some recent talks:
The weakening of strong verbs and the collapse of present-tense inflection-class distinctions in early Middle English
(GLAC 25, Iowa City, Iowa, May 2019)
Hybrid inflection in late Middle and Early Modern English and the regularization of English strong verbs
(2nd Annual Buffalo-Toronto Workshop on Linguistic Perspectives on Variation Within and Across Languages, Toronto, March, 2019.)
The restorative powers of persistent alternations: The interaction of syncope and lenition/loss of /x/ in German and West Saxon verb forms
(GLAC 24, State College, Pennsylvania, May 2018)
The role of perception in paradigm leveling and beyond
(ICHL 23, San Antonio, Texas, August 2017)
Morphological change by phonological analogy: 2sg -s→-st in Old High German and Old English
(GLAC 23, Austin, Texas, April 2017)
Staying weird: Analogical change in high-frequency forms
(GLAC 22, Reykjavík, Iceland, May 2016)
Spreading like wildfire: Morphological variation and the dynamics of the Great English Verb Regularization
(8th International Conference "21st Century Anglistica", St. Petersburg State University, Russia, January 2016)
"Morphology as Lexical Organization" from Hermann Paul to Today
(Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, Freiburg, Germany, November 2015)
Exceptional past and participle forms of
j
-present weak verbs in West Germanic: A reassessment of the Old High German evidence
(ICHL 22, Naples, July 2015)
A closer look at the analogical spread of the High German consonant shift
(GLAC 21, Provo, May 2015)
Paradigm leveling and the role of universal preferences in morphophonological change
(U. at Buffalo Cognitive Science Colloquium, February 2015)
Paradigms, perception, prosody, and palatals: Toward a comprehensive account of the origins and spread of the High German consonant shift (with Jeannette Marsh)
(GLAC 20, Purdue, May 2014)
Analogy Plain and Simple: The Development of Exceptions to Sievers' Law in Gothic and Umlaut Alternations in the Old Norse Short-Stem Class-1 Weak Verbs
(ICHL 21, Oslo, August 2013)
The Limits of Analogy or: Why doesn't Paul agree with Anttila (1977: 20) that "all change is analogical"?
(2nd Colloquium on Hermann Paul's
Prinzipien
, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, June 2013)
Accounting for the "Exceptions" to Sievers' Law in Gothic in an "Output-Based" Approach to Analogical Change
(GLAC 19, Buffalo, April 2013)
Paul's proportional model: Is it really so hard?
(Colloquium on Hermann Paul's
Prinzipien
, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, Germany, May 2012)
Analogical changes in Germanic verbs and the theoretical status of paradigm leveling
(GLAC 18, Indiana U. - Bloomington, April 2012)
On Regular Analogy, Analogical Sound Change, and Neogrammarian Theory
(GLAC 17, U. Texas - Austin, April 2011)
Phonological alternations, word-and-paradigm morphology, and proportional analogy
(Dept. of Linguistics Workshop: Morphology and the Lexicon, Buffalo, April 2011)
Are strong verbs really dying to fit in?
(GLAC 15, Banff, May 2009)
The Role of Multiple Cues in Category Formation and the Development of the Weak Verb Classes in Medieval German and English
(GLAC 14, U. of Wisconsin - Madison, May 2008)
The Many Priests in Kafka's Temple: How Speakers, Linguists, and Prescriptivists 'Do Things With Junk'
(Invited Keynote, 10th annual GSA conference, U. of Wisconsin - Madison, March 2008)