Professor Philomen Probert FBA

Greek, Latin and Anatolian languages and literatures; history of linguistics, especially Greek and Latin grammarians; Indo-European historical and comparative linguistics; linguistic theory, especially prosody and diachronic syntax.
A photo of Philomen Probert FBA. Photo: David Jeffrey
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2024
Honours
FBA

Current post

University of Oxford Professor of Classical Philology and Linguistics; Fellow, Wolfson College

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Professor Paul Kerswill FBA

Sociolinguistics; English, Norwegian; language and migration; new dialects; multicultural youth language; language and social structure; sociolinguistics of West Africa; language, media and public dissemination

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Professor Gillian Clark FBA

The social & intellectual history of late antiquity, & early Christian (patristic) studies, in the Mediterranean world of the third to the seventh century

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Dr Miltiades Hatzopoulos FBA

The epigraphy, ancient topography, language, religion, institutions and political history of Macedonia in classical antiquity

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