Nigel Vincent
Nigel Vincent | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | British |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Morphology, syntax, Romance linguistics |
| Institutions | University of Manchester |
Nigel Vincent is a British linguist. He is Professor Emeritus of General & 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,[1] and was Vice-President for Research and HE Policy at the Academy from 2010 to 2014.[2] 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 2000-2003, he was President of the Philological Society. He was the chair of Main Panel M[3] in the Research Assessment Exercise, 2008.
In 2007, Vincent was honoured with a Festschrift[4] with contributions by his former students.
References
- ^ Fellows Directory, British Academy
- ^ Officers and Council 2013-14, British Academy
- ^ Main Panel M, Research Assessment Exercise 2008
- ^ 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
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. Houndmills: 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.