Nigel Vincent

Nigel Vincent
Residence United Kingdom
Nationality British
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. 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

  1. Fellows Directory, British Academy
  2. Officers and Council 2013-14, British Academy
  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. 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.

Personal home page

Nigel Vincent's home page

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