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Dr Christopher Beedham, Lecturer

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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

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).
Beedham, C. 2005 John Benjamins . 225 p.
Research output : Book/Report Book

Langue and parole in synchronic and diachronic perspective:  Selected Proceedings of the XXXIst Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, St Andrews 1998 (Reviewed by John O. Askedal in Studies in Language 2001/25.3:693‑8;  W. Anderson in Linguist List 8.8.2001.  Book notice by John E. Joseph in Historiographica Linguistica 2000/2001 27/2‑3:450)
Beedham, C. 1999 Elsevier (incl. Pergamon ) . 519 p.
Research output : Book/Report Book

German Linguistics: an Introduction (Reviewed by:  C.M. Stevens in Michigan Germanic Studies 1994/XX.2:165‑8;  C.V.J. Russ in The Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies 1995 1996/57:630;  W.J. Dodd in German Teaching December 1996/14:47‑8;  R. Hartmann in Informationen Deutsch als Fremdsprache 1997/24:198‑200;  M.R. Townson in Modern Language Review 1997/92:1004‑6;  H.‑J. Grimm in Deutsch als Fremdsprache 1998/35:247‑8.  Book Notice by P.E. Webber in Language 1997/73:687)
Beedham, C. 1995 Iudicium . 239 p.
Research output : Book/Report Book

The Passive Aspect in English, German and Russian (Reviewed by Catherine Chvany in Folia Slavica 1987/88:352‑60)
Beedham, C. 1982 Gunter Narr Verlag . 159 p.
Research output : Book/Report Book

 

The equivocation of form and notation in generative grammar
Beedham, C. 2010 In: Chomskyan (R)evolutions: Festschrift on the occasion of E.F.K. Koerner's 70th birthday. Kibbee, D. A. (ed.). Amsterdam: John Benjamins , p. 19-42.
Research output : Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding Chapter

Les verbes irréguliers et la création phonotactique du sens "résultatif" [Irregular verbs and the phonotactic creation of the meaning 'resultative']
Beedham, C. 2010 In: Res per nomen II: Language, reference and anthropology. Frath, P., Lansari, L. & Pauchard, J. (eds.). Reims: EPURE (Editions et Presses universitaires de Reims) , p. 329-344.
Research output : Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding Conference contribution

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]
Beedham, C. 2009 In: Res per nomen I: Taking stock of reference in the study of language. Frath, P., Gledhill, C. & Pauchard, J. (eds.). Reims: EPURE (Editions et Presses universitaires de Reims) , p. 215-229.
Research output : Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding Conference contribution

Über die Anwendbarkeit der theoretischen Grammatik in pädagogischen Grammatiken: Saussure, das Passiv und starke Verben. [On the applicability of theoretical grammar in pedagogical grammars: Saussure, the passive and strong verbs]
Beedham, C. 2002 In: Akten des X. Internationalen Germanistenkongresses Wien 2000. Bern: Peter Lang , p. 37-42.
Research output : Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding Conference contribution

Introduction
Beedham, C. 1999 In: C. Beedham (ed.), Langue and parole in synchronic and diachronic perspective: Selected Proceedings of the XXXIst Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, St Andrews 1998. Elsevier/Pergamon , p. 1-15.
Research output : Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding Chapter

Structuralism and lexical exceptions in three languages
Beedham, C. 1998 In: Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Congress of Linguists (Paris 1997), ed. by B.Caron (CD-ROM). Elsevier/Pergamon , p. Paper No. 0195.
Research output : Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding Conference contribution

Das deutsche Passiv: Aspekt, nicht Genus verbi [The German passive: aspect, not voice]
Beedham, C. 1990 In: Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Congress of Linguists (Berlin 1987), ed. by Werner Bahner et al.. Akademie-Verlag , p. 722-725.
Research output : Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding Conference contribution

 

Eine phonotaktische Verbindung zwischen starken Verben und grammatischen Wörtern der deutschen Gegenwartssprache
Beedham, C. Oct-2005 In : Deutsch als Fremdsprache . 42 , 3 , p. 167-172.
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

Последовательности "Гласный + Согласный" в простых непродуктивных глаголах на –ать⁄–ять и –еть в русском языке
Beedham, C. Jan-2004 In : Язык и Речевая Деятельность . 7 , 1 , p. 9-37.
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

Irregularity in language: Saussure versus Chomsky versus Pinker
Beedham, C. Dec-2002 In : Word . 53 , 3 , p. 341-367. 27 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

A Critique of the Model-Building Approach.  A review of Participial Passive and Aspect in Russian, by M. Schoorlemmer
Beedham, C. Apr-2001 In : Word . 52 , 1 , p. 79-94. 16 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

The Perfect Passive Participle in Russian.  A review of Participial Passive and Aspect in Russian, by M. Schoorlemmer
Beedham, C. Jun-1998 In : Lingua . 105 , 1-2 , p. 79-94. 16 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

Vowel + consonant and consonant + vowel sequences in the strong verbs of German and English
Beedham, C. 1995 In : Cahiers Ferdinand de Saussure . 49 , p. 139-163.
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

Die starken Verben als Analogon zu transitiven, nicht passivfähigen Verben:  eine methodologische Skizze [The strong verbs as analogy to non‑passivizable transitive verbs: a methodological outline].
Beedham, C. 1994 In : Deutsch als Fremdsprache . 31 , 3 , p. 163-167.
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

The role of consonants in marking strong verb conjugation in German and English
Beedham, C. 1994 In : Folia Linguistica . XXVIII , 3-4 , p. 279-296. 18 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

Language varieties and how to teach them.  A review of Variation in German: A critical approach to German sociolinguistics, by S.Barbour and P.Stevenson
Beedham, C. 1993 In : New German Studies . 17 , p. 229-255.
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

School Grammar and University Linguistics: A Review Article.  A review of The structure of German, by A.Fox
Beedham, C. Jul-1992 In : Modern Language Review . 87 , 3 , p. 636-651. 16 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

Investigating grammar through lexical exceptions: tense and irregular verbs in English, German and Russian
Beedham, C. Dec-1989 In : Journal of Literary Semantics . XVIII , 3 , p. 187-202. 16 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

English for Computer Science and the formal realization of communicative functions
Beedham, C. & Bloor, M. 1989 In : Fachsprache . 11 , 1-2 , p. 13-24.
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

The language of management case studies: discussion
Beedham, C. & Charles, D. 1989 In : Fachsprache . 11 , 3-4 , p. 135-153.
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

Видовое значение конструкции «быть + сдрадательное причастие» [The aspectual meaning of the construction ‘ byt’ + passive participle’]
Beedham, C. 1988 In : Voprosy Yazykoznania . 6 , p. 63-68.
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

The English passive as an aspect
Beedham, C. Apr-1987 In : Word . 38 , 1 , p. 1-12. 12 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

Das deutsche Passiv: Aspekt, nicht Genus verbi [The German passive: aspect, not voice]
Beedham, C. 1987 In : Deutsch als Fremdsprache . 24 , 3 , p. 160-165.
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

Form, Meaning and Syntax as Interdependent Hypotheses
Beedham, C. Apr-1986 In : Journal of Literary Semantics . XV , 1 , p. 3-11. 9 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

Descriptive Versus Generative Grammar: The Passive
Beedham, C. 1986 In : Language Sciences . 8 , 2 , p. 103-128.
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

Language, indoctrination and nuclear arms
Beedham, C. 1983 In : UEA Papers in Linguistics (University of East Anglia) . 19 , p. 15-29.
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

The passive in English, German and Russian
Beedham, C. 1981 In : Journal of Linguistics . 17 , p. 319-327. 9 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

The perfect passive participle in English
Beedham, C. 1979 In : Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik . 27 , 1 , p. 75-81. 7 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

 

Die Methode der lexikalischen Ausnahmen:  die Untersuchung von syntaktischen Eigenschaften unregelmäßiger Verben [The method of lexical exceptions: the investigation of syntactic properties of irregular verbs].
Beedham, C. 1994 L.A.U.D. (Linguistische Arbeiten der Universität Duisburg) , 44 p.
Research output : Working paper