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Professor Manfred Mayrhofer FBA

Linguistics and Particular Languages or Families, Indo-European Linguistics; Comparative Linguistics
Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
2001
Year of birth
1926
Year of death
2011
Honours
FBA
Sections
Linguistics and Philology

Current post

Emeritus Professor der Allg. und Indogermanischen Sprachwissenschaft, University of Vienna

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Philomen Probert FBA

Greek, Latin and Anatolian languages and literatures; history of linguistics, especially Greek and Latin grammarians; Indo-European historical and comparative linguistics; linguistic theory, especially prosody and diachronic syntax.

Philomen Probert FBA

Professor Devyani Sharma FBA

Social and cognitive basis of language variation and change; new dialects of English; sociolinguistics, bilingualism, typology; accent variation and social perception

Devyani Sharma FBA

Professor Anders Holmberg FBA

Comparative syntax and syntactic theory; Finnish and the Scandinavian languages; word order; null arguments; interplay of syntax and morphology; the syntax of questions and answers

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