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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 Terttu Nevalainen FBA

The history of the English language, particularly of the Early Modern English period; historical sociolinguistics; language variation and change; corpus linguistics; design and compilation of digital text corpora

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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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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.

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