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 David Willis FBA
Syntactic variation and change; historical linguistics and digital humanities; linguistics of the Celtic languages, especially Welsh; historical syntax of the Slavonic languages and of English
Professor Lutz Marten FBA
Lutz Marten specialises in descriptive, comparative and theoretical linguistics; African languages; Bantu languages; Swahili; how language is linked to culture, society, history, identity, nature and other domains of life; African and global area studies
Professor Jenny Cheshire FBA
Sociolinguistics; language change in multilingual urban centres, adolescent language, language & education, syntactic & discourse variation, syntax of spoken English.
