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Professor Angus McIntosh FBA

English Language and Literature; Medieval Studies
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
1989
Year of birth
1914
Year of death
2005
Honours
FBA
Sections
Linguistics and Philology

Current post

Professor Emeritus of English Language, University of Edinburgh; Honorary consultant, Institute for Historical Dialectology and Honorary Research Fellow, University of Glasgow

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Professor Rajend Mesthrie FBA

Rajend Mesthrie FBA has published extensively on the socio-historical linguistics of Indian languages, African languages and English and Afrikaans in South Africa. At the same time his work on English as a global language and the sociolinguistics of Language Contact and Variation is widely recognised internationally.

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Professor Joan Bresnan FBA

Empirical foundations of syntax; corpus and experimental studies of variation in English grammar; cognitive architectures of grammar; the dynamics of probabilistic grammar; linguistic typology; Bantu morphosyntax; lexical-functional grammar

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