Professor Geoffrey Khan FBA

Philology
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
1998
Subjects
Linguistics

Current post

Regius Professor of Hebrew, University of Cambridge

Past appointments

University of Cambridge Regius Professor of Hebrew, University of Cambridge

2012 -

University of Cambridge Reader in Semitic Philology

1999 -

University of Cambridge Lecturer in Hebrew and Aramaic

1993 - 1999

Publications

Studies in Semitic syntax 1988

A grammar of Neo-Aramaic 1999

The early Karaite tradition of Hebrew grammatical thought 2000

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor David Willis FBA

Syntactic variation and change; historical linguistics and digital humanities; linguistics of the Celtic languages, especially Welsh; historical syntax of the Slavonic languages and of English

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Professor Robert Ladd FBA

Phonology and phonetics, and the relation between them ("laboratory phonology"); intonation and prosody, including focus, emotion, pitch perception, tone languages, and links between language and music

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Professor Antonella Sorace FBA

Language learning and bilingualism over the lifespan; interfaces between language and cognition; gradience in natural language; public engagement with research

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