Skip to content

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
Website
https://www.york.ac.uk/language/people/academic-research/paul-kerswill/

Current post

Professor of Sociolinguistics, University of York

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Devyani Sharma FBA

Social and cognitive basis of language variation and change; new dialects of English; sociolinguistics, bilingualism, typology; accent variation and social perception

Devyani Sharma FBA

Professor Elizabeth Traugott FBA

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

elizabeth-traugott.jpg

Professor Nick Evans FBA

An anthropologist linguist. In addition to primary work recording the endangered indigenous languages of Australia & New Guinea, he has written widely on their implications for linguistics, cognitive science, anthropology, prehistory & other fields

nick-evans.jpg

Sign up to our email newsletters

Join our mailing list to explore the ideas and impact of the British Academy. Get updates on research, funding, policy, international collaborations, and events that bring the humanities and social sciences to life.