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Professor Peter Matthews FBA

Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
1985
Year of birth
1934
Year of death
2023
Subjects
Linguistics
Sections
Linguistics and Philology
Website
https://www.mmll.cam.ac.uk/professor-peter-matthews

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Emeritus Professor of Linguistics, University of Cambridge

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