Professor Peter Trudgill FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Emeritus Fellow
- Year elected
- 1989
- Subjects
- Linguistics
- Sections
- Linguistics and Philology
Current post
Past appointments
University of East Anglia Honorary Professor of Sociolinguistics, University of East Anglia; Emeritus Professor, University of Fribourg
2017 -
University of East Anglia Honorary Professor of Sociolinguistics, University of East Anglia; Professor of Sociolinguistics, University of Agder, Norway; Adjunct Professor, Research Centre for Linguistic Typology, La Trobe University; Emeritus Professor, University of Fribourg
2006 - 2017
University of Fribourg Professor of English Linguistics
1998 -
University of Essex Professor of Sociolinguistics
1987 - 1992
University of Reading Professor of Linguistics
1983 - 1986
Publications
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Anders Holmberg FBA
Comparative syntax and syntactic theory; Finnish and the Scandinavian languages; word order; null arguments; interplay of syntax and morphology; the syntax of questions and answers
Professor Nick Chater FBA
The cognitive and social foundations of rationality & language; general principles of cognition; philosophical, economic & policy implications of cognitive science.
Professor Matthew Baerman FBA
Morphology, especially unusual or theoretically challenging inflectional systems. West Nilotic languages, Seri (isolate), and Slavic languages
