Professor James Higginbotham FBA

Philosophy; Linguistics
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
1995
Year of birth
1941
Year of death
2014
Honours
FBA

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 David Langslow FBA

Latin, Greek and Indo-European languages and their descriptive, historical and social linguistics; ancient special and technical varieties, especially as reflected in the translation and transmission of ancient medical texts

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Professor Greville Corbett FBA

Linguistics, especially typology and morphology

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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

Ayesha Kidwai FBA (credit Rahul Roy)

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