Professor Dell Hymes FBA
- Fellow type
- International Fellow
- Year elected
- 1991
- Year of birth
- 1927
- Year of death
- 2009
- Honours
- FBA
- Sections
- Linguistics and Philology
Current post
Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and English, University of Virginia
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Matthew Baerman FBA
Morphology, especially unusual or theoretically challenging inflectional systems. West Nilotic languages, Seri (isolate), and Slavic languages
Professor Robyn Carston FBA
The human capacity for ostensive communication; its relation to linguistic competence and theory of mind; the semantics and pragmatics of word meaning; metaphorical and other non-literal uses of language
Professor Rajend Mesthrie FBA
Rajend Mesthrie FBA has published extensively on the socio-historical linguistics of Indian languages, African languages and English and Afrikaans in South Africa. At the same time his work on English as a global language and the sociolinguistics of Language Contact and Variation is widely recognised internationally.
