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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 Janet Watson FBA

The documentation and morpho-syntactic description of modern Arabic dialects and Modern South Arabian languages; theoretical phonology and morphology with reference to Arabic and Modern South Arabian

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Professor Robyn Carston FBA

The human capacity for ostensive communication; its relation to linguistic competence and theory of mind; the semantics and pragmatics of word meaning; metaphorical and other non-literal uses of language

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Professor Bill Hardcastle FBA

Theoretical and clinical phonetics and phonology, particularly experimental studies of speech production processes in typical and disordered speech

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