Keith Brown (linguist)
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Edward Keith Brown is a Scottish linguist, professor at the University of Cambridge, and the editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics.
Life
After studying
In 1984 he moved to the University of Essex, where he was research professor in the Department of Linguistics, and then to the University of Cambridge, where he was senior research fellow in the Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics. As at 2014 he is an Affiliated Lecturer in the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, and a fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge.[2]
He has also held visiting professorships at the Universities of
Works
He serves as a co-editor of Transactions of the Philological Society and sits on several other editorial boards. He is author of Linguistics Today (Fontana, 1984) and co-author, with Jim Miller, of Syntax: A Linguistic Introduction to Sentence Structure and Syntax: Generative Grammar (Hutchinson, 1981).
He was syntax editor for the first edition of the Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics and was joint editor, with Jim Miller, of A Concise Encyclopedia of Linguistic Theories and A Concise Encyclopedia of Grammatical Categories (Pergamon Press, 1997 and 1998). He was also a joint editor of Common Denominators in Art and Science (Aberdeen University Press, 1983), as well as Language, Reasoning and Inference (Academic Press, 1986).
References
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- ^ Cambridge University Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics Archived 28 May 2014 at the Wayback Machine accessed 26 May 2014
- Keith Brown, ed. (2005). Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Elsevier. p. xiii.