Ian Roberts#
| Membership Number: | 2584 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2008 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.ling.cam.ac.uk/people/roberts |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2000 Professor of Linguistics, University of Cambridge
- 2000 Professorial Fellow, Downing College, Cambridge
- 1996-2000 Professor and Head of English Linguistics, Universität Stuttgart, Germany
- 1991-1996 Professor and Head of Linguistics, University of Wales, Bangor
- 1986-1991 Maître assistant, département de linguistique générale, Université de Genève
- 1985-1986 Assistant de linguistique anglaise, département de langue et littérature anglaises, Université de Genève
- 1985 Ph.D., Dept. of Linguistics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
Fields of Scholarship
- Generative syntax
- Comparative syntax
- Germanic languages
- Romance languages
- English
- Celtic languages
- Historical/diachronic syntax
Honours and Awards
- Prix Latsis de l'Université de Genève (SFr 25,000; 1989)
- Ordinary Fellow of the British Academy.(2007)
- Member of the Academia Europaea (2008)
