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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

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Professor Paul Kerswill FBA

Sociolinguistics; English, Norwegian; language and migration; new dialects; multicultural youth language; language and social structure; sociolinguistics of West Africa; language, media and public dissemination

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Professor Irina Nikolaeva FBA

General linguistics; linguistic diversity and linguistic typology; language change; Uralic, Altaic and Palaeosiberian languages and linguistics; documentation and description of endangered languages

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Professor David Willis FBA

Syntactic variation and change; historical linguistics and digital humanities; linguistics of the Celtic languages, especially Welsh; historical syntax of the Slavonic languages and of English

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