Nigel Vincent
Nigel Vincent | |
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| Born | 24 September 1947 |
| Nationality | British |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Morphology, syntax, Romance linguistics |
| Institutions | The University of Manchester |
Nigel Vincent is a British linguist. He is Professor Emeritus of General and Romance Linguistics at the University of Manchester.[1] He is best known for his work on morphology, syntax, and historical linguistics, with particular focus on the Romance languages.
Vincent was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2006,[2] and was Vice-President for Research and HE Policy at the Academy from 2010 to 2014.[3] In 2013, he was elected a Member of the Academia Europaea.
Until 2011, he held the Mont Follick Chair of Comparative Philology in the School of Languages, Linguistics & Cultures at the University of Manchester. From 2000 to 2003, he was President of the Philological Society. He was the chair of Main Panel M[4] in the Research Assessment Exercise, 2008.
In 2007, Vincent was honoured with a Festschrift[5] with contributions by colleagues and former students.
References
[edit]- ^ "Prof Nigel Vincent | the University of Manchester".
- ^ Fellows Directory, British Academy
- ^ Officers and Council 2013-14, British Academy Archived 2014-05-31 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Main Panel M, Research Assessment Exercise 2008". Archived from the original on 2013-04-25. Retrieved 2013-08-06.
- ^ Bentley, D. and A. Ledgeway (eds) (2007) Sui dialetti italo-romanzi. Saggi in onore di Nigel B. Vincent (Special supplement number 1 to The Italianist 27). King's Lynn, Norfolk: Biddles Ltd, 316 pp., ISSN 0261-4340.
Partial bibliography
[edit]- Ledgeway, A., Smith, J.C. and Vincent, N., eds. Periphrasis and Inflexion in Diachrony. A View from Romance. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
- Adams, J.N. and Vincent, N., eds. Early and Late Latin. Continuity or Change?. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016.
- Benincà, P., Ledgeway, A., and Vincent, N., eds. Dialects and Diachrony: Grammatical Changes in the Dialects of Italy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
- Börjars, K. and Vincent. N. Grammaticalization and directionality. In The Oxford Handbook of Grammaticalization, ed. H. Narrog and B. Heine, 163-176. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
- Matras, Y., McMahon, A. and Vincent, N., eds. Linguistic Areas. Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2006.
- van Kemenade, A. and Vincent, N., eds. Parameters of Morphosyntactic Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
- Benincà, P., Cinque, G., De Mauro, T. and Vincent, N., eds. Italiano e dialetti nel tempo. Rome: Bulzoni, 1996.
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