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 Philomen Probert FBA
Greek, Latin and Anatolian languages and literatures; history of linguistics, especially Greek and Latin grammarians; Indo-European historical and comparative linguistics; linguistic theory, especially prosody and diachronic syntax.
Professor David Denison FBA
History of English, especially syntax, including current change; modelling syntactic change; word classes and word class boundaries, gradience in syntax; corpus construction and problems of tagging
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.
