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

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Jane Stuart-Smith FBA

Phonetics and phonology, sociolinguistics, sociophonetics; language variation and change, speech and social meaning, media influence on language change; English, especially Scottish English/Scots and British Asian

Jane Stuart-Smith FBA (credit (credit Elizabeth Stuart-Smith))

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

OF Willis David

Professor Alice Harris FBA

Historical linguistics; languages of the Caucasus; morphology

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