Adam Ledgeway | |
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Born | 29 December 1970 |
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Discipline | Linguist |
Sub-discipline | Romance linguistics |
Institutions | University of Cambridge |
Adam Noel Ledgeway,FBA (born 29 December 1970) is an academic linguist,specialising in Italian and other Romance languages. Since 2015,he has been Chair of the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages at the University of Cambridge;he has also been Professor of Italian and Romance Linguistics at the University since 2013 and a Fellow of Downing College,Cambridge,since 1996 (having previously been a Research Fellow there for a year). After completing his undergraduate degree at the University of Salford,Ledgeway studied for his master's degree at the University of Manchester,which also awarded him his doctorate in 1996. He took up a temporary assistant lectureship at Cambridge in 1997,which was made permanent the following year,before being promoted to lecturer in 2001 and senior lecturer three years later. [1] [2] [3]
In July 2017,Ledgeway was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA),the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences. [4]
The following are books which Ledgeway has edited or authored: [5]
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Antonella Sorace,, Professor of Developmental Linguistics, University of Edinburgh, since 2002; Founding Director, Bilingualism Matters, since 2008 |url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U294916 |website=Who's Who 2023 |publisher=Oxford University Press |access-date=3 December 2022 |language=en |date=1 December 2022}}</ref>) is an experimental linguist and academic, specializing in bilingualism across the lifespan. Since 2002, she has been Professor of Developmental Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh. She a Fellow of British Academy, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.
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