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 Elaine Unterhalter FBA
Education, gender and international development; comparative work on education systems, policies, and practices with reviews of debates concerning inequalities, equality, the capability approach and human development
Professor Shalom Lappin FBA
Computational learning theory and machine learning applied to grammar induction and natural language processing, computational and formal semantics, and computational modeling of cognitive processes
Professor Anders Holmberg FBA
Comparative syntax and syntactic theory; Finnish and the Scandinavian languages; word order; null arguments; interplay of syntax and morphology; the syntax of questions and answers
