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
Sections: Linguistics and Philology
Website: http://www.stanford.edu/~traugott/

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 Lutz Marten FBA

Lutz Marten specialises in descriptive, comparative and theoretical linguistics; African languages; Bantu languages; Swahili; how language is linked to culture, society, history, identity, nature and other domains of life; African and global area studies

Professor Eleanor Dickey FBA

Greek and Latin languages and literature; ancient scholarship; ancient bilingualism and second-language learning; politeness and forms of address in Latin and Greek; sociolinguistics of ancient languages

Professor Philomen Probert FBA

Greek, Latin and Anatolian languages and literatures; history of linguistics, especially Greek and Latin grammarians; Indo-European historical and comparative linguistics; linguistic theory, especially prosody and diachronic syntax.

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