Professor Devyani Sharma FBA
Social and cognitive basis of language variation and change; new dialects of English; sociolinguistics, bilingualism, typology; accent variation and social perception
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2023
- Sections
- Linguistics and Philology
Current post
University of Oxford Professor of Language and Communication
Previous post
Queen Mary University of London Professor, Department of Linguistics
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Anders Holmberg FBA
Comparative syntax and syntactic theory; Finnish and the Scandinavian languages; word order; null arguments; interplay of syntax and morphology; the syntax of questions and answers
Professor John Rickford FBA
Theoretical and descriptive aspects of variation and change in Caribbean Anglophone creoles and American vernaculars, especially African American English, and their implications for educational reform and criminal justice
Professor Debra Myhill FBA
Writing and the teaching of writing, particularly linguistic and metalinguistic development; the composing processes involved in writing; the talk-writing relationship; the teaching of grammar; and creative writing
