Jim Blevins

Professor

morphology, syntax, quantitative linguistics, history of ideas

Current academic positions

Professor, Linguistics Program

Program Faculty, GLOA

Faculty Affiliate, IDIA

Current administrative roles

Vice-Chair, CHSS Faculty Assembly

Research and Long-Term Planning Committee (ex officio)

Faculty Workload Working Group

Selected Publications

Blevins, J. P. 2016. Word and Paradigm Morphology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Blevins, J. P. 2006. Word-based morphology. Journal of Linguistics 42(3), 531–573.

Blevins, J. P. 2003. Passives and impersonals. Journal of Linguistics 39(3), 473–520.

Baayen, R. H., Y.-Y. Chuang, E. Shafaei-Bajestan, and J. P. Blevins. 2019. The discriminative lexicon. Complexity, Special Issue on Cognitive Network Science: A New Frontier, 1–39.

Geertzen, Jeroen, James P. Blevins, and Petar Milin. 2016. The informativeness of linguistic unit boundaries. Italian Journal of Linguistics 28(1), 25–48.

Expanded Publication List

Kiefer, F., J. P. Blevins, and H. Bartos (eds.). 2017. Perspectives on Morphological Structure: Data and Analyses. Leiden: Brill.

Blevins, J. P., and J. Blevins. 2009 (eds.). Analogy in Grammar: Form and Acquisition. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Marzi, C., J. P. Blevins, G. Booij, & V. Pirrelli. 2020. Inflection at the morphology-syntax interface. In Word Knowledge and Word Usage: A Cross-disciplinary Guide to the Mental Lexicon, ed. by V. Pirrelli, I. Plag, and W. U. Dressler. Berlin: De Gruyter, 228–294.

Milin, P., & J. P. Blevins. 2020. Paradigms in morphology. In The Oxford Encylopedia of Morphology, ed. by R. Lieber, S. Arndt-Lappe, A. Fàbregas, C. Gagné, and F. Masini. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Blevins, J. P., P. Milin & M. Ramscar. 2017. The Zipfian Paradigm Cell Filling Problem. In Perspectives on Morphological Structure: Data and Analyses, ed. by F. Kiefer, J. P. Blevins, and H. Bartos. Leiden: Brill, 141–158.

Ackerman, F., J. P. Blevins, and R. Malouf. 2009. Parts and wholes: Implicative patterns in inflectional paradigms. In Analogy in Grammar: Form and Acquisition, ed. by J. P. Blevins and J. Blevins. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 54–81.

Courses Taught

Number	Topic	Semester(s)
ENGH 301	The Fields of English	Fall 2020
LING 306	General linguistics	Fall 2019
LING 522	Modern English grammar	Spring 2020, 2021
LING 650	Introduction to Sociolinguistics	Spring 2021
LING 686	Special topics: Morphology	Fall 2019, 2020

Education

1990 – Linguistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

1983 – English & Philosophy, Bishop's University, Quebec