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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

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Professor Anders Holmberg FBA

Comparative syntax and syntactic theory; Finnish and the Scandinavian languages; word order; null arguments; interplay of syntax and morphology; the syntax of questions and answers

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Professor Lutz Marten FBA

Lutz Marten specialises in descriptive, comparative and theoretical linguistics; African languages; Bantu languages; Swahili; how language is linked to culture, society, history, identity, nature and other domains of life; African and global area studies

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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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