Edward Keith Brown is a Scottish linguist, professor at the

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, and the editor-in-chief of the ''

Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics The ''Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics'', first published in 1994 (edited by Ronald E. Asher), with a 2nd edition in 2006 (edited by Keith Brown), is an encyclopedia of all matters related to language and linguistics. Reception The ''Jo ...

''.

Life

After studying

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, he joined the

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, and then worked in

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. Afterward he taught at the University College of Cape Coast in

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, before moving to

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, where he received his Ph.D. in linguistics in 1972. In 1984 he moved to the

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, where he was research professor in the Department of Linguistics, and then to the University of Cambridge, where he was senior research fellow in the Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics. As at 2014 he is an Affiliated Lecturer in the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, and a fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge.Cambridge University Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
accessed 26 May 2014 He has also held visiting professorships at the Universities of

Heidelberg Heidelberg (; Palatine German language, Palatine German: ''Heidlberg'') is a city in the States of Germany, German state of Baden-Württemberg, situated on the river Neckar in south-west Germany. As of the 2016 census, its population was 159,914 ...

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, and

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. In the period of 1990-1994 he was the president of the

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, and also a member of

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since 1998. He is chairman of the Linguistics Committee of the Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies.

Works

He serves as a co-editor of ''

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'' and sits on several other editorial boards. He is author of ''Linguistics Today'' (Fontana, 1984) and co-author, with Jim Miller, of ''Syntax: A Linguistic Introduction to Sentence Structure and Syntax: Generative Grammar'' (Hutchinson, 1981). He was syntax editor for the first edition of the ''

'' and was joint editor, with Jim Miller, of ''A Concise Encyclopedia of Linguistic Theories and A Concise Encyclopedia of Grammatical Categories'' (Pergamon Press, 1997 and 1998). He was also a joint editor of ''Common Denominators in Art and Science'' (Aberdeen University Press, 1983), as well as ''Language, Reasoning and Inference'' (Academic Press, 1986).

References

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