Professor Peter Trudgill FBA

Linguistics
Fellow type
UK Emeritus Fellow
Year elected
1989
Subjects
Linguistics

Current post

Honorary Professor of Sociolinguistics, University of East Anglia; Emeritus Professor, University of Fribourg

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

On dialect 1982

Dialects in contact 1986

Sociolinguistic variation and change 2002

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Professor Devyani Sharma FBA

Social and cognitive basis of language variation and change; new dialects of English; sociolinguistics, bilingualism, typology; accent variation and social perception

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Professor David Denison FBA

History of English, especially syntax, including current change; modelling syntactic change; word classes and word class boundaries, gradience in syntax; corpus construction and problems of tagging

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