Elected 1985
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
Latin, Greek and Indo-European languages and their descriptive, historical and social linguistics; ancient special and technical varieties, especially as reflected in the translation and transmission of ancient medical texts
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.