Professor Ian Roberts FBA

Historical and comparative syntax of the Romance, Germanic and Celtic languages; grammatical analysis adopting and adapting the concepts and techniques of Chomskyan generative theory.

Elected 2007

Fellow type: UK Fellow
Year elected: 2007
Sections: Linguistics and Philology, Education
Website: https://www.languagesciences.cam.ac.uk/directory/[email protected]

Current post

Professor of Linguistics, University of Cambridge

Past appointments

University of Cambridge Professor of Linguistics

2000 -

University of Stuttgart Professor of English Linguistics

1996 - 2000

University of Bangor Professor of Linguistics

1991 - 1996

Publications

Verbs and Diachronic Syntax 1993

Syntactic Change (with A. Roussou, University of Patras) 2003

Diachronic Syntax 2007

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Janet Watson FBA

The documentation and morpho-syntactic description of modern Arabic dialects and Modern South Arabian languages; theoretical phonology and morphology with reference to Arabic and Modern South Arabian

Professor Alice Harris FBA

Historical linguistics; languages of the Caucasus; morphology

Professor David Gillborn FBA

Race inequity in education policy and practice; critical race theory; sociology of education