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

Current post

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

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Elizabeth Traugott FBA

Historical linguistics; semantic change, cognitive and interactional pragmatics; theories of grammaticalisation and construction grammar

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Professor Irina Nikolaeva FBA

General linguistics; linguistic diversity and linguistic typology; language change; Uralic, Altaic and Palaeosiberian languages and linguistics; documentation and description of endangered languages

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Professor Miriam Meyerhoff FBA

The intersection of language variation and change, language contact and language documentation; the sociolinguistics of languages in Vanuatu.

Miriam Meyerhoff FBA

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