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Professor Oswald Szemerenyi FBA

Linguistics - Philology
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
1982
Year of birth
1913
Year of death
1996
Honours
FBA
Sections
Linguistics and Philology

Current post

Professor Emeritus of Indo-European and General Linguistics, University of Freiburg i.B

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Ianthi Tsimpli FBA

First and second language acquisition, multilingualism, language impairment, language attrition and language development in exceptional circumstances; the interface between language and cognition and the role of the language of education in linguistic and cognitive development

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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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Professor Alice Harris FBA

Historical linguistics; languages of the Caucasus; morphology

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