Professor Devyani Sharma FBA
Social and cognitive basis of language variation and change; new dialects of English; sociolinguistics, bilingualism, typology; accent variation and social perception
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2023
- Sections
- Linguistics and Philology
Current post
Queen Mary University of London Professor, Department of Linguistics
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Adam Ledgeway FBA
The comparative history and morphosyntax of the Romance languages; Italian and Romance dialectology; Latin; Italo-Greek; syntactic theory, linguistic change and language contact
Professor Bencie Woll FBA
Sign language as a model to understand human language generally: neuroimaging studies of commonalities in processing spoken & signed languages; the influence of modality of communication on language structure; sociolinguistics of Deaf communities.
Professor Katalin É. Kiss FBA
Generative linguistic theory; syntax, the syntax of Hungarian, information structure, the grammar of quantification
