Professor Janet Dean Fodor FBA
Theoretical and experimental psycholinguistics; multi-language studies of psychological mechanisms for decoding the structure and meaning of sentences; modelling the process of grammar acquisition by children
- Fellow type
- International Fellow
- Year elected
- 2014
- Year of death
- 2023
- Subjects
- Linguistics
- Sections
- Linguistics and Philology
Last post
The Graduate Center, City University of New York Distinguished Professor of Linguistics
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Mary Dalrymple FBA
Descriptive and theoretical syntax and semantics; language documentation; Austronesian and Papuan languages; grammatical analysis within the theory of Lexical Functional Grammar
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
Professor Irina Nikolaeva FBA
General linguistics; linguistic diversity and linguistic typology; language change; Uralic, Altaic and Palaeosiberian languages and linguistics; documentation and description of endangered languages
