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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 Almut Hintze FBA

The languages, religions and history of pre-Islamic Iran and Central Asia with special attention to Zoroastrianism; Ancient and Middle Iranian philology and linguistics

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Professor Caroline Heycock FBA

Theoretical linguistics; syntax; the syntax of Germanic languages; the syntax of Japanese

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Professor Bill Hardcastle FBA

Theoretical and clinical phonetics and phonology, particularly experimental studies of speech production processes in typical and disordered speech

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