Professor Anna Morpurgo Davies FBA
Linguistics
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 1985
- Year of birth
- 1937
- Year of death
- 2014
- Honours
- Hon DBE, FBA
- Sections
- Linguistics and Philology
Current post
Diebold Professor Emeritus of Comparative Philology, University of Oxford
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Bencie Woll FBA
Sign language as a model to understand human language generally: neuroimaging studies of commonalities in processing spoken & signed languages; the influence of modality of communication on language structure; sociolinguistics of Deaf communities.
Professor Matthew Baerman FBA
Morphology, especially unusual or theoretically challenging inflectional systems. West Nilotic languages, Seri (isolate), and Slavic languages
Professor Nick Chater FBA
The cognitive and social foundations of rationality & language; general principles of cognition; philosophical, economic & policy implications of cognitive science.
