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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
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2017
Subjects
Education, Linguistics
Sections
Linguistics and Philology , Education
Website
http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/anl21

Current post

Professor of Italian and Romance Linguistics and Chair of the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages, University of Cambridge; Fellow, Downing College, Cambridge

Past appointments

University of Cambridge Lecturer, Senior Lecturer

1996 - 2013

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor David Langslow FBA

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

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Professor Andreas Willi FBA

Historical and comparative grammar of Greek, Latin, and other ancient Indo-European languages; variationist linguistics of Ancient Greek (sociolects, dialects, literary registers); linguistic aspects of the cultural history of classical antiquity

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Professor Devyani Sharma FBA

Social and cognitive basis of language variation and change; new dialects of English; sociolinguistics, bilingualism, typology; accent variation and social perception

Devyani Sharma FBA

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