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 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
Professor Daniel Harbour
Theoretical linguistics, especially morphosemantics, morphosyntax and typology; underdocumented languages, especially Afroasiatic, Kiowa-Tanoan and South Caucasian; writing systems, their linguistic structure and decipherment.
Professor Antonella Sorace FBA
Language learning and bilingualism over the lifespan; interfaces between language and cognition; gradience in natural language; public engagement with research
