Professor Mark Steedman FBA

Psycholinguistics and Cognitive Science Computational Linguistics
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2002
Subjects
Linguistics

Current post

Professor of Cognitive Science, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh

Past appointments

University of Edinburgh Professor of Cognitive Science

1998 -

University of Edinburgh Professor of Cognitive Science in the Division of Informatics, University of Edinburgh

1998 -

University of Pennsylvania Associate and full Professor in Computer and Information Sciences

1988 - 1998

University of Edinburgh Lecturer and Reader in Computational Linguistics

1983 - 1988

University of Warwick

1983 - 1997

Publications

Taking Scope 2012

Surface structure and interpretation 1996

The syntactic process 2000

Information structure and syntax phonology interface Linguistic Inquiry 2000

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor David Denison FBA

History of English, especially syntax, including current change; modelling syntactic change; word classes and word class boundaries, gradience in syntax; corpus construction and problems of tagging

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Professor Jennifer Smith FBA

Jennifer Smith's research investigates speech patterns across time, space and the social system, uncovering the mechanisms which drive language variation and change.

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