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 Li Wei FBA
Language contact; bilingualism and multilingualism; language learning, and language education
Professor Ayesha Kidwai FBA
Generative grammar, field and descriptive linguistics, language policy in South Asia; Urdu/Hindi--English literary translation, Partition studies; inclusion and justice in higher education
Professor Elizabeth Traugott FBA
Historical linguistics; semantic change, cognitive and interactional pragmatics; theories of grammaticalisation and construction grammar
