Professor Ian Roberts FBA

Historical and comparative syntax of the Romance, Germanic and Celtic languages; grammatical analysis adopting and adapting the concepts and techniques of Chomskyan generative theory.
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2007
Subjects
Education, Linguistics

Current post

Professor of Linguistics, University of Cambridge

Past appointments

University of Cambridge Professor of Linguistics

2000 -

University of Stuttgart Professor of English Linguistics

1996 - 2000

University of Bangor Professor of Linguistics

1991 - 1996

Publications

Verbs and Diachronic Syntax 1993

Syntactic Change (with A. Roussou, University of Patras) 2003

Diachronic Syntax 2007

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Jenny Cheshire FBA

Sociolinguistics; language change in multilingual urban centres, adolescent language, language & education, syntactic & discourse variation, syntax of spoken English.

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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 Louise Archer FBA

Educational identities and inequalities, particularly in relation to social class, gender and race/ethnicity and equitable participation in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM)

Lousie Archer FBA

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