Prof Nigel Vincent
Mont Follick Professor of Comparative Philology
University of Manchester
Manchester M13 9PL
U.K.
E-mail: nigel.vincent@man.ac.uk
Telephone: +44-(0)161-275 3194
Fax: +44-(0)161-275 3187
Room number W1.21
Nigel Vincent is Mont Follick Professor of Comparative Philology at the University of Manchester. He completed his undergraduate and graduate studies at the University of Cambridge and has held lecturing posts at the Universities of London (Birkbeck College), Lancaster, Hull and Cambridge. He has been Dean of the Research and Graduate School in Arts at Manchester.
Nigel Vincent's research interests include: the modelling of morphosyntactic change; feature-based approaches to morphology and syntax, especially LFG (joint work with Kersti Börjars); the history and structure of Latin and the Romance languages, in particular Italian and the dialects of Italy. In this last connection he directs a group of doctoral students working on Italian and Romance syntax (current membership includes: Sandra Paoli, Ioanna Sitaridou, Stefania Tufi).
He is the author of numerous articles on the categories and mechanisms of linguistic change. He has published on aspects of the structure and evolution of Italian, and on the historical syntax of Latin and the Romance languages. He co-edited with Martin Harris Studies in the Romance Verb (1982) and The Romance Languages (1988), and was the editor of the Journal of Linguistics (1983-1993). He also co-edited and contributed to Italiano e dialetti nel tempo: Saggi di grammatica per Giulio C. Lepschy (Rome, Bulzoni, 1996). He was the co-ordinator of the group researching Subordination and Complementation within the European Science Foundation's EUROTYP project (1990-1994). A volume of papers deriving from that project is being edited together with Kersti Börjars.With Ans van Kemenade, he has edited a collection of papers from the 3rd Conference on Diachronic Generative Syntax entitled Parameters of Morphosyntactic Change (Cambridge University Press, 1997).
In 1995 together with Prof Richard Hogg (Linguistics and English Language, The University of Manchester) he was awarded two British Academy Institutional Fellowships to work on a project entitled Archaism and innovation in the linguistic history of Europe.
He has won a British Academy Research Readership for the period September 1996 to September 1998, during which time he will be on leave and writing a book provisionally entitled Morphosyntactic change: from Latin to Romance.
Nigel Vincent is the current President of the Philological Society.
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