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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 Ayesha Kidwai FBA

Generative grammar, field and descriptive linguistics, language policy in South Asia; Urdu/Hindi--English literary translation, Partition studies; inclusion and justice in higher education

Ayesha Kidwai FBA (credit Rahul Roy)

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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Professor David Langslow FBA

Latin, Greek and Indo-European languages and their descriptive, historical and social linguistics; ancient special and technical varieties, especially as reflected in the translation and transmission of ancient medical texts

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