Nigel Vincent is a British

linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure. Linguis ...

. He is Professor Emeritus of General and Romance Linguistics at the

University of Manchester , mottoeng = Knowledge, Wisdom, Humanity , established = 2004 – University of Manchester Predecessor institutions: 1956 – UMIST (as university college; university 1994) 1904 – Victoria University of Manchester 1880 – Victoria Univ ...

. He is best known for his work on

morphology Morphology, from the Greek and meaning "study of shape", may refer to: Disciplines * Morphology (archaeology), study of the shapes or forms of artifacts * Morphology (astronomy), study of the shape of astronomical objects such as nebulae, galaxies ...

, syntax, and

historical linguistics Historical linguistics, also termed diachronic linguistics, is the scientific study of language change over time. Principal concerns of historical linguistics include: # to describe and account for observed changes in particular languages # ...

, with particular focus on the

Romance languages The Romance languages, sometimes referred to as Latin languages or Neo-Latin languages, are the various modern languages that evolved from Vulgar Latin. They are the only extant subgroup of the Italic languages in the Indo-European language ...

. Vincent was elected a Fellow of the

British Academy The British Academy is the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and the social sciences. It was established in 1902 and received its royal charter in the same year. It is now a fellowship of more than 1,000 leading scholars spa ...

in 2006, and was Vice-President for Research and HE Policy at the Academy from 2010 to 2014. In 2013, he was elected a Member of the

Academia Europaea The Academia Europaea is a pan-European Academy of Humanities, Letters, Law, and Sciences. The Academia was founded in 1988 as a functioning Europe-wide Academy that encompasses all fields of scholarly inquiry. It acts as co-ordinator of Europea ...

. Until 2011, he held the

Mont Follick Montefiore Follick (31 December 1887 – 10 December 1958) was a British Labour Party politician, a campaigner for spelling reform, polyglot and advocate of decimal currency. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Loughborough from 1945 to 1955, ...

Chair of Comparative Philology in th
School of Languages, Linguistics & Cultures
at the

. From 2000 to 2003, he was President of the Philological Society. He was the chair of Main Panel M in the

Research Assessment Exercise The Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) was an exercise undertaken approximately every five years on behalf of the four UK higher education funding councils (HEFCE, SHEFC, HEFCW, DELNI) to evaluate the quality of research undertaken by British hig ...

, 2008. In 2007, Vincent was honoured with a

Festschrift In academia, a ''Festschrift'' (; plural, ''Festschriften'' ) is a book honoring a respected person, especially an academic, and presented during their lifetime. It generally takes the form of an edited volume, containing contributions from the h ...

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. with contributions by colleagues and former students.

References

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''. Basingstoke: 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.

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