Bas Aarts#
| Membership Number: | 6921 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2024 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/english/people/bas-aarts |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-2516-6608 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2003 Professor of English Linguistics, Department of English, UCL
- 1997 Director of the Survey of English Usage, English Department, UCL
- 2016 - 2022 Vice-Dean for Innovation and Enterprise in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, UCL
- 2007 - 2012 Vice-President for the Profession of the International Society for the Linguistics of English
- 1999 - 2003 Reader in Modern English Language, Department of English, UCL
- 1996 - 1999 Senior Lecturer in English Language, Department of English, UCL
- 1989 - 1996 Lecturer in English Language, Department of English, UCL
Fields of Scholarship
- Corpus linguistics
- Syntax
- Linguistic usage
- Language change
- English grammar
- Language teaching and pedagogy
Honours and Awards
- 2015 - 2018 Elected Member of the Council of the Philological Society
- 2014 - 2018 Appointed UK Government Advisor for the teaching of grammar in schools
- 2007 - 2012 Elected Vice-President for the Profession of the International Society for the Linguistics of English
- 1997 - present Appointed Director of the Survey of English Usage at UCL
- 1997 Founding Editor of the scholarly journal English Language and Linguistics (Cambridge University Press)
