Professor Manfred Woidich FBA
The descriptive dialectology, dialect geography of the Arabic language; historical linguistics of Arabic, in particular syntactic and semantic issues in Egyptian dialects. Teaching Arabic as a foreign language, colloquial first
- Fellow type
- International Fellow
- Year elected
- 2017
- Sections
- Africa, Asia and the Middle East
Current post
Emeritus Professor of Arabic Language and Linguistics, University of Amsterdam
Other Fellows of the British Academy
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
Professor Janet Watson FBA
The documentation and morpho-syntactic description of modern Arabic dialects and Modern South Arabian languages; theoretical phonology and morphology with reference to Arabic and Modern South Arabian
Professor Yutaka Yoshida FBA
The philological and historical studies of Sogdian and other Middle Iranian texts unearthed from the area along the ancient Silk Roads
