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 Eleanor Dickey FBA
Greek and Latin languages and literature; ancient scholarship; ancient bilingualism and second-language learning; politeness and forms of address in Latin and Greek; sociolinguistics of ancient languages
Professor Debra Myhill FBA
Writing and the teaching of writing, particularly linguistic and metalinguistic development; the composing processes involved in writing; the talk-writing relationship; the teaching of grammar; and creative writing
