Nigel Vincent#
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| Membership Number: | 3485 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2013 |
| Main Country of Residence: | DENMARK |
| Homepage(s): | https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/nigel.vincent |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-2494-1652 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2011 Professor Emeritus of General & Romance Linguistics, The University of Manchester
- 2006 - 2011 Associate Vice-President for Research & Graduate Education, The University of Manchester
- 2004 - 2006 Associate Dean for Postgraduate Research, Faculty of Humanities, The University of Manchester
- 1992 - 1996 Research & Graduate Dean, Faculty of Arts, University of Manchester
- 1987 - 2011 Mont Follick Professor of Comparative Philology, University of Manchester
- 1987 - 1992 Head of Department of Linguistics, University of Manchester
- 1981 - 1987 Lecturer in Linguistics, University of Cambridge
- 1976 - 1981 Lecturer in Linguistics, University of Hull
- 1974 - 1976 Lecturer in Italian, University of Lancaster
- 1973 - 1974 Lecturer in Italian, Birkbeck College, University of London
Fields of Scholarship
- Morphology
- Latin
- Italian
- Syntactic change
- Historical linguistics
- Syntax
Honours and Awards
- 2013 President of the Modern Humanities Research Association
- 2010-2014 Vice-President for Research and Higher Education Policy at the British Academy
- 2006 Elected a Fellow of the British Academy
- 2000 - 2003 President of the Philological Society
- 2000 Erskine Fellow, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
- 1993-1995 President of the International Society for Historical Linguistics
- 1990-2002 Honorary Vice-President of the Società di Linguistica Italiana
