David Denison
David Michael Benjamin Denison FBA (born 6 September 1950)[1] is a British linguist whose work focuses on the history of the English language.
Biography
[edit | edit source]He was educated at Highgate School[citation needed] and St John's College, Cambridge, where he studied mathematics and then Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic,[2] completing the latter tripos with an upper second-class degree in 1973.[3] He earned his doctorate at Lincoln College, Oxford on "Aspects of the History of English Group-Verbs, with Particular Attention to the Syntax of the Ormulum".[2][4] 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.[2] He is a past president of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE).[5]
Denison served from 1995 to 2010 as one of the founding editors of the journal English Language and Linguistics.[6] In 2014 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Languages at Uppsala University.[7][8] In 2014 he was also elected a Fellow of the British Academy, the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.[9]
He is one of the contributors to The Cambridge grammar of the English language.
Selected publications
[edit | edit source]- 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. 1999. "Gradience and linguistic change". In Historical Linguistics. Ed. L. Brinton. John Benjamins.
- D. Denison. 1998. "Syntax". In The Cambridge History of the English Language. Vol. IV: 1776–1997. Ed. S. Romaine. Cambridge Univ. Press, pp. 92–329.
- D. Denison. 1993. English Historical Syntax: Verbal Constructions. Longman.[10][11]
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ "Denison, Prof. David Michael Benjamin", Who's Who (online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2017). Retrieved 5 July 2018.
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- ^ 'Appendix V. Candidates who Took the Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic Tripos between 1900 and 1999', in H. M. Chadwick and the Study of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic in Cambridge, ed. by Michael Lapidge [=Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies, 69–70] (Aberystwyth: Department of Welsh, Abersytwyth University, 2015), pp. 257–66 (p. 262).
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