Professor Oswald Szemerenyi FBA

Linguistics - Philology
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
1982
Year of birth
1913
Year of death
1996
Honours
FBA

Current post

Professor Emeritus of Indo-European and General Linguistics, University of Freiburg i.B

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Monika Schmid FBA

The psycho- and neurolinguistics of bilingual development, in particular first and second language attrition, that is, the effect of non-use on the accessibility, deterioration and maintenance of linguistic knowledge

Monika Schmid FBA

Professor Patrick Sims-Williams FBA

Celtic Languages and Literatures

Patrick Sims-Williams FBA

Professor David Denison FBA

History of English, especially syntax, including current change; modelling syntactic change; word classes and word class boundaries, gradience in syntax; corpus construction and problems of tagging

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