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Professor Michael Halliday FBA

Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
1989
Year of death
2018
Sections
Linguistics and Philology

Current post

Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, University of Sydney

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Elizabeth Traugott FBA

Historical linguistics; semantic change, cognitive and interactional pragmatics; theories of grammaticalisation and construction grammar

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Professor Eleanor Dickey FBA

Greek and Latin languages and literature; ancient scholarship; ancient bilingualism and second-language learning; politeness and forms of address in Latin and Greek; sociolinguistics of ancient languages

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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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