Professor Mary Dalrymple FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2013
- Subjects
- Linguistics
- Sections
- Linguistics and Philology
- Website
- http://users.ox.ac.uk/~cpgl0015/
Summary
Mary Dalrymple is Professor of Syntax at the University of Oxford. She completed her PhD in linguistics at Stanford University in 1990, and spent the next thirteen years as a researcher at Xerox PARC, now the Palo Alto Research Center. She left PARC in 2003 to take up a position in the computer science department at King's College London, and moved from King's to Oxford's Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics in 2004. Her main interests are in syntax, semantics, and the interface between them.
Current post
Professor of Syntax, Faculty of Linguistics, Philology, and Phonetics, University of Oxford; Fellow, Linacre College, Oxford
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Robert Ladd FBA
Phonology and phonetics, and the relation between them ("laboratory phonology"); intonation and prosody, including focus, emotion, pitch perception, tone languages, and links between language and music
Professor Paul Kiparsky FBA
Phonology, morphology, historical linguistics, metrics, and the Sanskrit grammatical tradition. The relation between word structure and sentence structure, and the principles governing language change.
