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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 David Willis FBA

Syntactic variation and change; historical linguistics and digital humanities; linguistics of the Celtic languages, especially Welsh; historical syntax of the Slavonic languages and of English

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Professor David Langslow FBA

Latin, Greek and Indo-European languages and their descriptive, historical and social linguistics; ancient special and technical varieties, especially as reflected in the translation and transmission of ancient medical texts

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Professor Dan Sperber FBA

Cognition, communication and culture in an evolutionary perspective; anthropological fieldwork in Ethiopia, theoretical and experimental work in linguistic pragmatics and in cognitive psychology

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