Professor Ayesha Kidwai FBA
Generative grammar, field and descriptive linguistics, language policy in South Asia; Urdu/Hindi--English literary translation, Partition studies; inclusion and justice in higher education
- Fellow type
- International Fellow
- Year elected
- 2023
- Subjects
- Linguistics
- Sections
- Linguistics and Philology
Current post
Centre for Linguistics, School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University Professor
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Daniel Harbour
Theoretical linguistics, especially morphosemantics, morphosyntax and typology; underdocumented languages, especially Afroasiatic, Kiowa-Tanoan and South Caucasian; writing systems, their linguistic structure and decipherment.
Professor Simon Kirby FBA
The origins and evolution of language; the interactions between individual cognition, cultural transmission and biological evolution in human populations; art / science collaboration
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.
