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 Bencie Woll FBA
Sign language as a model to understand human language generally: neuroimaging studies of commonalities in processing spoken & signed languages; the influence of modality of communication on language structure; sociolinguistics of Deaf communities.
Professor Anders Holmberg FBA
Comparative syntax and syntactic theory; Finnish and the Scandinavian languages; word order; null arguments; interplay of syntax and morphology; the syntax of questions and answers
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
