Professor Paul Kerswill FBA
Sociolinguistics; English, Norwegian; language and migration; new dialects; multicultural youth language; language and social structure; sociolinguistics of West Africa; language, media and public dissemination
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2017
- Sections
- Linguistics and Philology
Current post
Professor of Sociolinguistics, University of York
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Philomen Probert FBA
Greek, Latin and Anatolian languages and literatures; history of linguistics, especially Greek and Latin grammarians; Indo-European historical and comparative linguistics; linguistic theory, especially prosody and diachronic syntax.
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 Martin Maiden FBA
Southern Europe Italy Linguistics Romance Eastern Europe including Russia Romania
