Nigel Vincent

Nigel Vincent is a British linguist. He is Professor Emeritus of General and Romance Linguistics at the University of Manchester. He is best known for his work on morphology, syntax, and historical linguistics, with particular focus on the Romance languages.

Nigel Vincent
Born24 September 1947
NationalityBritish
Scientific career
FieldsMorphology, syntax, Romance linguistics
InstitutionsThe University of Manchester

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 to 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 colleagues and former students.

References
  1. Fellows Directory, British Academy
  2. Officers and Council 2013-14, British Academy Archived 2014-05-31 at the Wayback Machine
  3. Main Panel M, Research Assessment Exercise 2008
  4. 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. 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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