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 Miriam Meyerhoff FBA
The intersection of language variation and change, language contact and language documentation; the sociolinguistics of languages in Vanuatu.
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 Elena Lieven FBA
Children’s language development: the emergence and construction of grammar in typologically different languages; the relationship between input and the process of language development; variation in children’s communicative and linguistic environments.
