David Fertig

PhD

David Fertig.

David Fertig

PhD

David Fertig

PhD

Director of Graduate Studies
Professor

Specialties

Germanic Linguistics, Historical linguistics, Dialectology, Sociolinguistics, Morphology, and Phonology

Education

  • PhD, University of Michigan

Selected Publications

  • Fertig, David (forthcoming) "Morphological change through phonological analogy: 2sg -s→-st and related developments in Germanic". Journal of Germanic Linguistics.
  • Fertig, David (2016) "Mechanisms of paradigm leveling and the role of universal preferences in morphophonological change". Diachronica 33(4).423–460.
  • Fertig, David (2015) “New translation of Chapter 5: ‘Analogy’ of Hermann Paul’s Prinzipien der Sprachwissenschaft”. Hermann Paul’s Principles of Language History Revisited, ed. by Peter Auer and Robert W. Murray, 87–98. Boston: de Gruyter.
  • Fertig, David (2015) “Two Conceptions of Analogical Innovation/Change”. Hermann Paul’s Principles of Language History Revisited, ed. by Peter Auer and Robert W. Murray, 209–236. Boston: de Gruyter.
  • Fertig, David (2015) “Analogy and Morphophonological Change”. The Handbook of Historical Phonology, ed. by Patrick Honeybone and Joseph C. Salmons, 205–218. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Fertig, David (2014) “A History of German, by Joseph Salmons”. Language 90.548–551.
  • Fertig, David (2013) Analogy and Morphological Change. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.