Dr Christopher Beedham, Lecturer
Contact Details
C.Beedham@st-andrews.ac.uk
Phone: 01334 463657
Office: Buchanan 204
Full research profile
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Research 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Article
Descriptive Versus Generative Grammar: The Passive
Beedham, C.
1986
In :
Language Sciences
.
8
,
2
,
p. 103-128.
Research output
:
Contribution to journal
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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
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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
