Professor Ruth Kempson FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 1989
- Subjects
- Linguistics
- Sections
- Linguistics and Philology
Current post
Past appointments
King's College London University of London Professor of General Lingusitics
1970 -
King's College London University of London Leverhulme Research Professor, King's College London
1970 -
Soas, University Of London Lecturer, Reader then Professor of General Linguistics
1970 -
Soas, University Of London Lecturer, Reader then Professor of General Linguistics
1970 -
King's College London University of London Professor of General Lingusitics
1970 -
King's College London University of London Leverhulme Research Professor, King's College London
1970 -
Publications
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Janet Watson FBA
The documentation and morpho-syntactic description of modern Arabic dialects and Modern South Arabian languages; theoretical phonology and morphology with reference to Arabic and Modern South Arabian
Professor Irina Nikolaeva FBA
General linguistics; linguistic diversity and linguistic typology; language change; Uralic, Altaic and Palaeosiberian languages and linguistics; documentation and description of endangered languages
Professor Rajend Mesthrie FBA
Rajend Mesthrie FBA has published extensively on the socio-historical linguistics of Indian languages, African languages and English and Afrikaans in South Africa. At the same time his work on English as a global language and the sociolinguistics of Language Contact and Variation is widely recognised internationally.
