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Professor Graham Furniss FBA

Oral and written literatures of Africa; orality, performance and genre in the popular cultures of West Africa with particular reference to Hausa-speaking regions of Nigeria and Niger
Fellow type
UK Emeritus Fellow
Year elected
2009
Sections
Africa, Asia and the Middle East , Linguistics and Philology
Website
https://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff122014.php

Current post

Emeritus Professor of African Language Literature, SOAS, University of London

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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 George Hewitt FBA

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Professor David Langslow FBA

Latin, Greek and Indo-European languages and their descriptive, historical and social linguistics; ancient special and technical varieties, especially as reflected in the translation and transmission of ancient medical texts

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