David Denison

David Denison FBA (born September 1950) is a British linguist whose work focuses on the history of the English language.

Biography

He was educated at Highgate School and St John's College, Cambridge, where he studied Mathematics and then Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, and he earned his doctorate at Lincoln College, Oxford.^{[1] [2]} He was Smith Professor of English Language & Medieval Literature at the University of Manchester from 2008. Since March 2015 he has been Professor Emeritus of English Linguistics.^[1] He is a past president of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE).^[3]

Denison served from 1995-2010 as one of the founding editors of the journal English Language and Linguistics.^[4] In 2014 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Languages at Uppsala University.^[5][6] In 2014 he was also elected a Fellow of the British Academy.^[7]

Selected publications

• R. Hogg, D. Denison (eds.). 2006. A History of the English Language. Cambridge Univ. Press.
• B. Aarts, D. Denison, E. Keizer, G. Popova (eds.) 2004. Fuzzy Grammar: a reader. Oxford Univ. Press.
• D. Denison. "Gradience and linguistic change". In Historical Linguistics; 1999. John Benjamins.
• D. Denison. "English Historical Syntax: Verbal Constructions". 1993^[8][9]

References

1. "Prof David Denison". Retrieved 7 September 2016.
2. Denison, David. "Aspects of the history of English group-verbs" (PDF). Retrieved 7 September 2016.
3. "ISLE - The International Society for the Linguistics of English". Isle-linguistics.org. 2010-10-20. Retrieved 2014-07-21.
4. Aarts, Bas, David Denison and Richard Hogg (May 1997). "Editors' Notes". English Language and Linguistics 1( 01): pp 1 – 2.
5. Department of English (2014-02-26). "Honorary Doctors - Uppsala University, Sweden". Engelska.uu.se. Retrieved 2014-07-21.
6. "Languages name two new honorary doctors - Uppsala University, Sweden". www.uu.se. Retrieved 2016-02-02.
7. "British Academy announces 42 new fellows". Times Higher Education. 18 July 2014. Retrieved 18 July 2014.
8. Fischer, Olga (March 1994). "Review of English Historical Syntax: Verbal Constructions:". Journal of Linguistics. 30 (1): 277–281. doi:10.1017/s0022226700016285.
9. Stockwell, Robert P. (December 1997). "Review of English Historical Syntax: Verbal Constructions:" (PDF). Language. 73 (4): 858–860. doi:10.1353/lan.1997.0019. Retrieved July 19, 2015.