Professor Peter Matthews FBA

Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
1985
Year of birth
1934
Year of death
2023
Subjects
Linguistics

Last post

Emeritus Professor of Linguistics, University of Cambridge

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Aditi Lahiri FBA

Synchronic and diachronic morpho-phonology of Germanic and Indo-Aryan language families, and psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic research on the phonological and morphological representations of the mental lexicon

aditi-lahiri.jpg

Professor Adam Ledgeway FBA

The comparative history and morphosyntax of the Romance languages; Italian and Romance dialectology; Latin; Italo-Greek; syntactic theory, linguistic change and language contact

adam-ledgeway.jpg

Professor Philomen Probert FBA

Greek, Latin and Anatolian languages and literatures; history of linguistics, especially Greek and Latin grammarians; Indo-European historical and comparative linguistics; linguistic theory, especially prosody and diachronic syntax.

Philomen Probert FBA

Sign up to our email newsletters

Join our mailing list to explore the ideas and impact of the British Academy. Get updates on research, funding, policy, international collaborations, and events that bring the humanities and social sciences to life.