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Professor Eli Fischer-Jørgensen FBA

Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
1995
Year of birth
1911
Year of death
2010
Honours
FBA
Sections
Linguistics and Philology

Current post

Professor Emeritus, University of Copenhagen

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Professor John Wells FBA

Linguistics

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Professor Harald Clahsen FBA

Psycholinguistics; first and second language acquisition, developmental and acquired language disorders, the experimental study of language processing in different languages

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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

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