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Professor Calvert Watkins FBA

Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
1987
Year of birth
1933
Year of death
2013
Honours
FBA
Sections
Linguistics and Philology

Current post

Professor-in-residence, Classics and Indo-European, University of California at Los Angeles, and Victor S Thomas Professor of Linguistics and the Classics, Emeritus, Harvard University

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Greville Corbett FBA

Linguistics, especially typology and morphology

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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 Elena Lieven FBA

Children’s language development: the emergence and construction of grammar in typologically different languages; the relationship between input and the process of language development; variation in children’s communicative and linguistic environments.

Elena Lieven FBA

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