Professor Terttu Nevalainen FBA

The history of the English language, particularly of the Early Modern English period; historical sociolinguistics; language variation and change; corpus linguistics; design and compilation of digital text corpora
Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
2019
Subjects
Linguistics

Current post

Professor and Research Director, Department of Languages, Faculty of Arts, University of Helsinki

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Monika Schmid FBA

The psycho- and neurolinguistics of bilingual development, in particular first and second language attrition, that is, the effect of non-use on the accessibility, deterioration and maintenance of linguistic knowledge

Monika Schmid FBA

Professor Aditi Lahiri FBA

Synchronic and diachronic morpho-phonology of Germanic and Indo-Aryan language families, and psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic research on the phonological and morphological representations of the mental lexicon

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Professor Adam Ledgeway FBA

The comparative history and morphosyntax of the Romance languages; Italian and Romance dialectology; Latin; Italo-Greek; syntactic theory, linguistic change and language contact

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