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 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
Professor Debra Myhill FBA
Writing and the teaching of writing, particularly linguistic and metalinguistic development; the composing processes involved in writing; the talk-writing relationship; the teaching of grammar; and creative writing
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.
