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 Aditi Lahiri FBA
Synchronic and diachronic morpho-phonology of Germanic and Indo-Aryan language families, and psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic research on the phonological and morphological representations of the mental lexicon
Professor Terttu Nevalainen FBA
The history of the English language, particularly of the Early Modern English period; historical sociolinguistics; language variation and change; corpus linguistics; design and compilation of digital text corpora
Professor Andreas Willi FBA
Historical and comparative grammar of Greek, Latin, and other ancient Indo-European languages; variationist linguistics of Ancient Greek (sociolects, dialects, literary registers); linguistic aspects of the cultural history of classical antiquity
