Professor John Anderson FBA

Linguistics
Fellow type
UK Emeritus Fellow
Year elected
1991
Subjects
Linguistics

Current post

Emeritus Professor of English Language, University of Edinburgh

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

The substance of language 2011

The grammar of case 1971

Principles of dependancy phonology 1987

A notional theory of syntactic categories 1997

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