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 Li Wei FBA
Language contact; bilingualism and multilingualism; language learning, and language education
Professor Debra Myhill FBA
Writing and the teaching of writing, particularly linguistic and metalinguistic development; the composing processes involved in writing; the talk-writing relationship; the teaching of grammar; and creative writing
Professor David Denison FBA
History of English, especially syntax, including current change; modelling syntactic change; word classes and word class boundaries, gradience in syntax; corpus construction and problems of tagging
