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 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.
Professor Rajend Mesthrie FBA
Rajend Mesthrie FBA has published extensively on the socio-historical linguistics of Indian languages, African languages and English and Afrikaans in South Africa. At the same time his work on English as a global language and the sociolinguistics of Language Contact and Variation is widely recognised internationally.
