David Michael Benjamin Denison FBA (born 6 September 1950) [1] is a British linguist whose work focuses on the history of the English language.
He was educated at Highgate School [ citation needed ] and St John's College, Cambridge, where he studied mathematics and then Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, [2] completing the latter tripos with an upper second-class degree in 1973. [3] He earned his doctorate at Lincoln College, Oxford on "Aspects of the History of English Group-Verbs, with Particular Attention to the Syntax of the Ormulum ". [2] [4] He was Smith Professor of English Language & Medieval Literature at the University of Manchester from 2008. Since March 2015 he has been Professor Emeritus of English Linguistics. [2] He is a past president of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE). [5]
Denison served from 1995 to 2010 as one of the founding editors of the journal English Language and Linguistics . [6] In 2014 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Languages at Uppsala University. [7] [8] In 2014 he was also elected a Fellow of the British Academy, the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences. [9]
He is one of the contributors to The Cambridge grammar of the English language .
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