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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 Paul Kiparsky FBA

Phonology, morphology, historical linguistics, metrics, and the Sanskrit grammatical tradition. The relation between word structure and sentence structure, and the principles governing language change.

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Professor Elizabeth Traugott FBA

Historical linguistics; semantic change, cognitive and interactional pragmatics; theories of grammaticalisation and construction grammar

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Professor Jennifer Smith FBA

Jennifer Smith's research investigates speech patterns across time, space and the social system, uncovering the mechanisms which drive language variation and change.

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