Professor Joan Bresnan FBA
Empirical foundations of syntax; corpus and experimental studies of variation in English grammar; cognitive architectures of grammar; the dynamics of probabilistic grammar; linguistic typology; Bantu morphosyntax; lexical-functional grammar
- Fellow type
- International Fellow
- Year elected
- 2015
- Subjects
- Linguistics
- Sections
- Linguistics and Philology
Current post
Sadie Dernham Patek Professor in Humanities, Emerita, Professor of Linguistics, Emerita, and Senior Researcher, CSLI, Stanford University
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
Professor Katalin É. Kiss FBA
Generative linguistic theory; syntax, the syntax of Hungarian, information structure, the grammar of quantification
Professor Paul Kiparsky FBA
Phonology, morphology, historical linguistics, metrics, and the Sanskrit grammatical tradition. The relation between word structure and sentence structure, and the principles governing language change.
