Michael Fortescue#
| Membership Number: | 5056 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2019 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2000 Professor of General Linguistics, Department of General and Applied Linguistics, University of Copenhagen (emeritus status from 2011)
- 1989 Docent (reader) in Eskimology, Department of Eskimology, University of Copenhagen
- 1984 Lektor (associate professor) in Eskimology, Department of Eskimology, University of Copenhagen
- 1983 Ekstern lektor (assistant professor) in Eskimology, Department of Eskimology, University of Copenhagen
- 1979 Researcher funded by Danish Research Council, at Department of Eskimology, University of Copenhagen
Fields of Scholarship
- Eskimo-Aleut languages
- Linguistic typology
- Cognitive linguistics
- Wakashan languages
- Philosophy of language
- Child language acquisition
- Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages
- Functional grammar
- Historical linguistics
- Polysynthesis
Honours and Awards
- 1978 Danish government exchange scholarship with UK
- 2005 Elected chairman of The Linguistic Circle of Copenhagen
- 2011 Elected associate of St Hugh’s College, Oxford University
