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 Janet Watson FBA
The documentation and morpho-syntactic description of modern Arabic dialects and Modern South Arabian languages; theoretical phonology and morphology with reference to Arabic and Modern South Arabian
Professor Eleanor Dickey FBA
Greek and Latin languages and literature; ancient scholarship; ancient bilingualism and second-language learning; politeness and forms of address in Latin and Greek; sociolinguistics of ancient languages
