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 David Adger FBA
Syntactic theory; grammatical variation across and within languages; interactions between syntax and other areas of grammar, including morphology, semantics, and sociolinguistics; syntax in cognitive science
Professor Lutz Marten FBA
Lutz Marten specialises in descriptive, comparative and theoretical linguistics; African languages; Bantu languages; Swahili; how language is linked to culture, society, history, identity, nature and other domains of life; African and global area studies
