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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
Website
http://web.stanford.edu/~bresnan/

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 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.

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Professor Paul Kerswill FBA

Sociolinguistics; English, Norwegian; language and migration; new dialects; multicultural youth language; language and social structure; sociolinguistics of West Africa; language, media and public dissemination

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Professor Hagit Borer FBA

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