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.
- Fellow type
- International Fellow
- Year elected
- 2010
- Subjects
- Linguistics
- Sections
- Linguistics and Philology
Current post
Robert M and Anne T Bass Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Daniel Harbour
Theoretical linguistics, especially morphosemantics, morphosyntax and typology; underdocumented languages, especially Afroasiatic, Kiowa-Tanoan and South Caucasian; writing systems, their linguistic structure and decipherment.
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
