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Professor James Higginbotham FBA

Philosophy; Linguistics
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
1995
Year of birth
1941
Year of death
2014
Honours
FBA
Sections
Linguistics and Philology

Current post

Linda Hilf Chair in Philosophy, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Linguistics, and Chairman of Linguistics, University of Southern California

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Nick Evans FBA

An anthropologist linguist. In addition to primary work recording the endangered indigenous languages of Australia & New Guinea, he has written widely on their implications for linguistics, cognitive science, anthropology, prehistory & other fields

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Professor Antonella Sorace FBA

Language learning and bilingualism over the lifespan; interfaces between language and cognition; gradience in natural language; public engagement with research

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Professor Dr Bernd Heine FBA

Linguistics and African Studies

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