Professor Joan Bresnan FBA
Empirical foundations of syntax; corpus and experimental studies of variation in English grammar; cognitive architectures of grammar; the dynamics of probabilistic grammar; linguistic typology; Bantu morphosyntax; lexical-functional grammar
- Fellow type
- International Fellow
- Year elected
- 2015
- Subjects
- Linguistics
- Sections
- Linguistics and Philology
Current post
Sadie Dernham Patek Professor in Humanities, Emerita, Professor of Linguistics, Emerita, and Senior Researcher, CSLI, Stanford University
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor David Adger FBA
Syntactic theory; grammatical variation across and within languages; interactions between syntax and other areas of grammar, including morphology, semantics, and sociolinguistics; syntax in cognitive science
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 Bill Hardcastle FBA
Theoretical and clinical phonetics and phonology, particularly experimental studies of speech production processes in typical and disordered speech
