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Dr Christopher Beedham, Lecturer

Contact Details

C.Beedham@st-andrews.ac.uk
Phone: 01334 463657
Office: Buchanan 204

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Dr Christopher BeedhamResearch and Teaching

Dr Beedham's research area is the linguistics of modern German (also Russian and English), especially strong verbs, the passive, structuralism, and methodology. He is developing a 'method of lexical exceptions', in which the researcher takes unexplained lexical exceptions to a grammatical rule and uses them as a basis for empirical research. A video of Dr Beedham giving a paper at the IVG (Internationale Vereinigung für Germanistik) congress in Warsaw 2010 on a newly discovered formal link between strong verbs and prefixes in German is available on Dr Beedham's web pages. Dr Beedham teaches Honours (= 3rd and 4th year) modules GM3080 'Grammatical Rules and Lexical Exceptions in Modern German' to students of German and ML3201 ‘Grammatical Rules and Lexical Exceptions’ to language students not specialising in German. You can watch a video of a sample class of GM3080, on the passive, and a video of a sample class of ML3201, also on the passive. Dr Beedham invites proposals for a PhD using the method of lexical exceptions.

PhD Supervision

Daniel Honert, Edith Shame, Samirah Aljohani

Publications

Beedham, C 2010, ' Les verbes irréguliers et la création phonotactique du sens "résultatif" [Irregular verbs and the phonotactic creation of the meaning 'resultative'] ', in P Frath, L Lansari & J Pauchard (eds) , Res per nomen II: Language, reference and anthropology EPURE (Editions et Presses universitaires de Reims), Reims, pp. 329-344, Res per nomen II, Reims, France , 28/05/09 .
Beedham, C 2010, ' The equivocation of form and notation in generative grammar ', in DA Kibbee (ed.) , Chomskyan (R)evolutions Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 19-42.
Beedham, C 2008, ' La méthode des exceptions lexicales et la relation entre la langue et la réalité [The method of lexical exceptions and the relationship between language and reality] ', in P Frath, C Gledhill & J Pauchard (eds) , Res per nomen EPURE (Editions et Presses universitaires de Reims), Reims, pp. 215-229, Res per nomen, Reims, France , 24/05/07 .
Beedham, C 2005, ' Eine phonotaktische Verbindung zwischen starken Verben und grammatischen Wörtern der deutschen Gegenwartssprache ', Deutsch als Fremdsprache , vol 42, no. 3, pp. 167-172.
Beedham, C 2005 , Language and Meaning: The Structural Creation of Reality . (Reviewed by Peter Suchsland in Deutsch als Fremdsprache 2007/44.1:51-52; Amy Gregory in LINGUIST List 2006 Vol-17-3168. Book notice in Forum for Modern Language Studies 2007.43.1:94)., John Benjamins.