Professor Daniel Harbour FBA
Theoretical linguistics, especially morphosemantics, morphosyntax and typology; underdocumented languages, especially Afroasiatic, Kiowa-Tanoan and South Caucasian; writing systems, their linguistic structure and decipherment.
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2024
- Honours
- FBA
- Sections
- Linguistics and Philology
Current post
Queen Mary University of London Professor of the Cognitive Science of Language
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Andreas Willi FBA
Historical and comparative grammar of Greek, Latin, and other ancient Indo-European languages; variationist linguistics of Ancient Greek (sociolects, dialects, literary registers); linguistic aspects of the cultural history of classical antiquity
Professor Graham Furniss FBA
Oral and written literatures of Africa; orality, performance and genre in the popular cultures of West Africa with particular reference to Hausa-speaking regions of Nigeria and Niger
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
