Adam Ledgeway#
| Membership Number: | 5732 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2021 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ITALY |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-1766-1959 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2024 (Sept.) - present Professore ordinario di Linguistica italiana, Dipartimento di Lettere, Filosofia, Comunicazione, University of Bergamo
- 2013 - 2024 Professor of Italian and Romance Linguistics, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages, University of Cambridge
- 2015 - 2019 Chair of the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages, University of Cambridge
- 2013 - 2014 Visiting Professor in Romance Linguistics, Dept. of Comparative Linguistic and Cultural Studies, University of Venice
- 2007 - 2011 Head of Department of Italian, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages, University of Cambridge
- 2004 - 2013 Senior Lecturer in Romance Philology, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages, University of Cambridge
- 2001 - 2004 University Lecturer in Romance Philology, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages, University of Cambridge
- 1998 - 2001 University Assistant Lecturer in Romance Philology, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages, University of Cambridge
- 1997 - 2098 1-year temporary lectureship in Romance Philology, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages, University of Cambridge
- 1996 - 2097 1 year of 3-year postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Downing College, University of Cambridge
Fields of Scholarship
- Comparative Romance linguistics
- Romance dialectology
- Morphosyntactic theory
- Diachronic and historical linguistics
- Language contact
- Latin morphosyntax
- Modern Greek dialectology and morphosyntax
Honours and Awards
- 2021 Nominated co-editor of the Journal of Linguistics
- 2020 Cross-member of the Education Section of the British Academy
- 2019 present Editor in chief of Wiley-Blackwell 5-volume work The Companion to Diachronic Linguistics
- 2018 - 2021 Elected to serve as expert panel member of Sub-panel 26: Modern Languages and Linguistics in the Research Excellence Framework 2021 - 2022
- 2017 Elected Fellow of the British Academy, Linguistics and Philology Section (H4) July 2017
- 2016 Elected to International Committee of Atlas Linguarum Europae (ALE)
- 2016 Awarded honorary doctorate by the Faculty of Letters of the University of Bucharest
- 2015 - 2016 Elected by the National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research (ANVUR) of the Italian Ministry of Education to serve as a member of Panel (GEV) 10 Ancient History, Philology, Literature and Art History in the National Research Assessment Exercise (VQR 2011-2014) to provide expertise in languages, philology and linguistics
- 2015 Elected fellow (‘Socio’) of the Centro di Studi filologici e linguistici siciliani, Palermo
- 2013 - 2019 Elected ‘conseiller délégué’ of the Société de linguistique romane
- 2012 Made Honorary Member of Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti”, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, in recognition of contribution to Romanian language and Romance languages
- 2012 - present Co-editor of Oxford University Press linguistics series The Oxford Guides to the World’s Languages
- 2011 - 2014 Elected to serve as expert panel member of Sub-panel 28: Modern Languages and Linguistics in the Research Excellence Framework 2014
- 2010 - present Co-editor of Oxford University Press linguistics series Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics
- 2003 Awarded honorary Master of Arts by the University of Cambridge, 15 November 2003
- 1996 - 1997 1 year of 3-year postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Downing College, University of Cambridge
