Professor Stephen Levinson FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 1988
- Subjects
- Linguistics
- Sections
- Linguistics and Philology
Summary
Steve Levinson is co-director of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, and Professor of Comparative Linguistics at Radboud University Nijmegen. He is the author of some 300 publications (http://www.mpi.nl/people/levinson-stephen/publications), with research interests focused on the relations between language, culture & cognition; language diversity; interactive uses of language; psycholinguistics; language evolution. Recent work has included psycholinguistic work on verb-first and ergative languages, and investigations of the processing demands of turn-taking in conversation. He has done extensive fieldwork on languages in India, Australia, Mexico and Papua New Guinea. He is also a fellow of the Academea Europea.
Current post
Past appointments
Nijmegen University, The Netherlands Director, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and Professor
1995 -
Nijmegen University, The Netherlands Director, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and Professor
1995 -
Other Foreign Institutions Director Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen; Professor at Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
1991 -
Other Foreign Institutions Director Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen; Professor at Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
1991 -
University of Cambridge Lecturer/Reader
1975 - 1991
University of Cambridge Lecturer/Reader
1975 - 1991
Publications
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Antonella Sorace FBA
Language learning and bilingualism over the lifespan; interfaces between language and cognition; gradience in natural language; public engagement with research
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
