Professor Calvert Watkins FBA

Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
1987
Year of birth
1933
Year of death
2013
Honours
FBA

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 Paul Kiparsky FBA

Phonology, morphology, historical linguistics, metrics, and the Sanskrit grammatical tradition. The relation between word structure and sentence structure, and the principles governing language change.

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Professor Shalom Lappin FBA

Computational learning theory and machine learning applied to grammar induction and natural language processing, computational and formal semantics, and computational modeling of cognitive processes

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Professor George Hewitt FBA

Modern and Medieval Middle Eastern Language and Literature Linguistics

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