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 Bencie Woll FBA
Sign language as a model to understand human language generally: neuroimaging studies of commonalities in processing spoken & signed languages; the influence of modality of communication on language structure; sociolinguistics of Deaf communities.
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
