Professor Elizabeth Traugott FBA

Historical linguistics; semantic change, cognitive and interactional pragmatics; theories of grammaticalisation and construction grammar
Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
2009
Subjects
Linguistics

Current post

Emeritus Professor of Linguistics and English, Stanford University

Past appointments

Stanford University, California Emeritus Professor of Linguistics and English

2003 -

Stanford University, California Professor of Linguistics and English

1968 - 2003

Publications

Constructionalization and Constructional Changes 2013

Other Fellows of the British Academy

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 Nigel Vincent FBA

Historical linguistics, Italian, Romance, Latin

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Professor Simon Kirby FBA

The origins and evolution of language; the interactions between individual cognition, cultural transmission and biological evolution in human populations; art / science collaboration

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