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.
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2024
- Honours
- FBA
- Sections
- Classical Antiquity , Linguistics and Philology
Current post
University of Oxford Professor of Classical Philology and Linguistics; Fellow, Wolfson College
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Christopher Pelling FBA
Greek and Latin historiography and biography, especially the literary criticism of prose texts, in particular Herodotus, Thucydides, Plutarch, and Tacitus
Professor Elizabeth Traugott FBA
Historical linguistics; semantic change, cognitive and interactional pragmatics; theories of grammaticalisation and construction grammar
Professor Katherine J. Clarke FBA
The relationship between space and time in ancient historical narratives; Greek and Roman geographical traditions as reflective of changing geopolitical realities; kingly power in the Roman Principate
