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Professor Robert Dixon FBA

Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
1998
Sections
Linguistics and Philology

Current post

Adjunct Professor, Cairns Institute, James Cook University, Australia

Other Fellows of the British Academy

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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Professor Jenny Cheshire FBA

Sociolinguistics; language change in multilingual urban centres, adolescent language, language & education, syntactic & discourse variation, syntax of spoken English.

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Professor Almut Hintze FBA

The languages, religions and history of pre-Islamic Iran and Central Asia with special attention to Zoroastrianism; Ancient and Middle Iranian philology and linguistics

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