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
- Sections
- Linguistics and Philology
Current post
Professor and Research Director, Department of Languages, Faculty of Arts, University of Helsinki
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor David Adger FBA
Syntactic theory; grammatical variation across and within languages; interactions between syntax and other areas of grammar, including morphology, semantics, and sociolinguistics; syntax in cognitive science
Professor Bencie Woll FBA
Sign language as a model to understand human language generally: neuroimaging studies of commonalities in processing spoken & signed languages; the influence of modality of communication on language structure; sociolinguistics of Deaf communities.
Professor Bill Hardcastle FBA
Theoretical and clinical phonetics and phonology, particularly experimental studies of speech production processes in typical and disordered speech
