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

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 Lindsay Paterson FBA

Educational stratification; social mobility; education and civic values; history of education; the culture, society and politics of Scotland; quantitative methods in social science

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Professor Stephen Ball FBA

Sociology of education with a focus on policy processes and social class equalities.

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Professor Dan Sperber FBA

Cognition, communication and culture in an evolutionary perspective; anthropological fieldwork in Ethiopia, theoretical and experimental work in linguistic pragmatics and in cognitive psychology

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