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 Paul Kerswill FBA
Sociolinguistics; English, Norwegian; language and migration; new dialects; multicultural youth language; language and social structure; sociolinguistics of West Africa; language, media and public dissemination
Professor Robert Ladd FBA
Phonology and phonetics, and the relation between them ("laboratory phonology"); intonation and prosody, including focus, emotion, pitch perception, tone languages, and links between language and music
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
