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 Irina Nikolaeva FBA
General linguistics; linguistic diversity and linguistic typology; language change; Uralic, Altaic and Palaeosiberian languages and linguistics; documentation and description of endangered languages
Professor Elinor Saiegh-Haddad FBA
Elinor Saiegh-Haddad's research interests are Arabic Linguistics, Diglossia, Literacy, Intervention, and typical and atypical language acquisition.
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.
