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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

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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

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Professor Martin Maiden FBA

Southern Europe Italy Linguistics Romance Eastern Europe including Russia Romania

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Professor Aditi Lahiri FBA

Synchronic and diachronic morpho-phonology of Germanic and Indo-Aryan language families, and psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic research on the phonological and morphological representations of the mental lexicon

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