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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
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Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2023
Sections
Linguistics and Philology
Website
https://www.qmul.ac.uk/sllf/linguistics/people/academic/profiles/sharma.html

Current post

Queen Mary University of London Professor, Department of Linguistics

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Theoretical linguistics; syntax; the syntax of Germanic languages; the syntax of Japanese

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Professor Almut Hintze FBA

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