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 Adger FBA

Syntactic theory; grammatical variation across and within languages; interactions between syntax and other areas of grammar, including morphology, semantics, and sociolinguistics; syntax in cognitive science

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Professor Paul Kiparsky FBA

Phonology, morphology, historical linguistics, metrics, and the Sanskrit grammatical tradition. The relation between word structure and sentence structure, and the principles governing language change.

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Professor Bill Hardcastle FBA

Theoretical and clinical phonetics and phonology, particularly experimental studies of speech production processes in typical and disordered speech

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