Professor Robyn Carston FBA
The human capacity for ostensive communication; its relation to linguistic competence and theory of mind; the semantics and pragmatics of word meaning; metaphorical and other non-literal uses of language
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2016
- Subjects
- Linguistics
- Sections
- Linguistics and Philology
Current post
Professor of Linguistics, University College London; Senior Researcher, Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature, University of Oslo
Past appointments
University College London Professor of Linguistics
1970 -
Other Foreign Institutions Senior Researcher, Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature, University of Oslo
1970 -
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Elena Lieven FBA
Children’s language development: the emergence and construction of grammar in typologically different languages; the relationship between input and the process of language development; variation in children’s communicative and linguistic environments.
Professor Martin Maiden FBA
Southern Europe Italy Linguistics Romance Eastern Europe including Russia Romania
Professor Anders Holmberg FBA
Comparative syntax and syntactic theory; Finnish and the Scandinavian languages; word order; null arguments; interplay of syntax and morphology; the syntax of questions and answers
