Professor John R. Rickford FBA
Theoretical and descriptive aspects of variation and change in Caribbean Anglophone creoles and American vernaculars, especially African American English, and their implications for educational reform and criminal justice
- Fellow type
- International Fellow
- Year elected
- 2022
- Subjects
- Linguistics
- Sections
- Linguistics and Philology
- Website
- http://johnrickford.com/
Current post
Stanford University J E Wallace Sterling Emeritus Professor of the Humanities
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Jane Stuart-Smith FBA
Phonetics and phonology, sociolinguistics, sociophonetics; language variation and change, speech and social meaning, media influence on language change; English, especially Scottish English/Scots and British Asian
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
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
