Professor Greville Corbett FBA
Linguistics, especially typology and morphology
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 1997
- Subjects
- Linguistics
- Sections
- Linguistics and Philology
Current post
Distinguished Professor of Linguistics, University of Surrey
Past appointments
University of Surrey Lecturer, Reader in Russian, Professor then Foundation Research Professor of Linguistics and of Russian Language
1970 -
University of Surrey Distinguished Professor of Linguistics and of Russian Language, University of Surrey
1970 -
Publications
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Adam Ledgeway FBA
The comparative history and morphosyntax of the Romance languages; Italian and Romance dialectology; Latin; Italo-Greek; syntactic theory, linguistic change and language contact
Professor Mary Dalrymple FBA
Descriptive and theoretical syntax and semantics; language documentation; Austronesian and Papuan languages; grammatical analysis within the theory of Lexical Functional Grammar
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.
