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

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 Martin Maiden FBA

Southern Europe Italy Linguistics Romance Eastern Europe including Russia Romania

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Professor Graham Furniss FBA

Oral and written literatures of Africa; orality, performance and genre in the popular cultures of West Africa with particular reference to Hausa-speaking regions of Nigeria and Niger

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Professor Harald Clahsen FBA

Psycholinguistics; first and second language acquisition, developmental and acquired language disorders, the experimental study of language processing in different languages

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