Professor John Anderson FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Emeritus Fellow
- Year elected
- 1991
- Subjects
- Linguistics
- Sections
- Linguistics and Philology
Current post
Past appointments
University of Edinburgh Emeritus Professor of English Language, University of Edinburgh
2002 -
University of Edinburgh Emeritus Professor of English Language, University of Edinburgh
2002 -
University of Edinburgh Professor of English Language, University of Edinburgh
1988 - 2002
University of Edinburgh Lecturer, Reader, Professor of English Language
1964 - 2001
Publications
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor David Willis FBA
Syntactic variation and change; historical linguistics and digital humanities; linguistics of the Celtic languages, especially Welsh; historical syntax of the Slavonic languages and of English
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.
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
