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 Rajend Mesthrie FBA
Rajend Mesthrie FBA has published extensively on the socio-historical linguistics of Indian languages, African languages and English and Afrikaans in South Africa. At the same time his work on English as a global language and the sociolinguistics of Language Contact and Variation is widely recognised internationally.
Professor Daniel Harbour
Theoretical linguistics, especially morphosemantics, morphosyntax and typology; underdocumented languages, especially Afroasiatic, Kiowa-Tanoan and South Caucasian; writing systems, their linguistic structure and decipherment.
