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
Sections: Linguistics and Philology , Education
Website: https://www.languagesciences.cam.ac.uk/directory/[email protected]

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.

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

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)

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