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 Lutz Marten FBA
Lutz Marten specialises in descriptive, comparative and theoretical linguistics; African languages; Bantu languages; Swahili; how language is linked to culture, society, history, identity, nature and other domains of life; African and global area studies
Professor Bill Hardcastle FBA
Theoretical and clinical phonetics and phonology, particularly experimental studies of speech production processes in typical and disordered speech
Professor Bencie Woll FBA
Sign language as a model to understand human language generally: neuroimaging studies of commonalities in processing spoken & signed languages; the influence of modality of communication on language structure; sociolinguistics of Deaf communities.
