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 Shalom Lappin FBA

Computational learning theory and machine learning applied to grammar induction and natural language processing, computational and formal semantics, and computational modeling of cognitive processes

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Professor Joan Bresnan FBA

Empirical foundations of syntax; corpus and experimental studies of variation in English grammar; cognitive architectures of grammar; the dynamics of probabilistic grammar; linguistic typology; Bantu morphosyntax; lexical-functional grammar

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Professor Nick Chater FBA

The cognitive and social foundations of rationality & language; general principles of cognition; philosophical, economic & policy implications of cognitive science.

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