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 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.
Professor Dan Sperber FBA
Cognition, communication and culture in an evolutionary perspective; anthropological fieldwork in Ethiopia, theoretical and experimental work in linguistic pragmatics and in cognitive psychology
