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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

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