David Denison Explained

David Michael Benjamin Denison (born 6 September 1950)^[1] is a British linguist whose work focuses on the history of the English language.

Biography

He was educated at Highgate School and St John's College, Cambridge, where he studied mathematics and then Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, completing the latter tripos with an upper second-class degree in 1973.^[2] He earned his doctorate at Lincoln College, Oxford on "Aspects of the History of English Group-Verbs, with Particular Attention to the Syntax of the Ormulum".^{[3] [4]} He was Smith Professor of English Language & Medieval Literature at the University of Manchester from 2008. Since March 2015 he has been Professor Emeritus of English Linguistics.^[3] He is a past president of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE).^[5]

Denison served from 1995 to 2010 as one of the founding editors of the journal English Language and Linguistics.^[6] In 2014 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Languages at Uppsala University.^{[7] [8]} In 2014 he was also elected a Fellow of the British Academy, the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.^[9]

He is one of the contributors to The Cambridge grammar of the English language.

Selected publications

• R. Hogg, D. Denison (eds.). 2006. A History of the English Language. Cambridge Univ. Press.
• B. Aarts, D. Denison, E. Keizer, G. Popova (eds.) 2004. Fuzzy Grammar: a reader. Oxford Univ. Press.
• D. Denison. 1999. "Gradience and linguistic change". In Historical Linguistics. Ed. L. Brinton. John Benjamins.
• D. Denison. 1998. "Syntax". In The Cambridge History of the English Language. Vol. IV: 1776–1997. Ed. S. Romaine. Cambridge Univ. Press, pp. 92–329.
• D. Denison. 1993. English Historical Syntax: Verbal Constructions. Longman.^{[10] [11]}

Notes and References

1. http://www.ukwhoswho.com/abstract/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-282241 "Denison, Prof. David Michael Benjamin"
2. 'Appendix V. Candidates who Took the Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic Tripos between 1900 and 1999', in H. M. Chadwick and the Study of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic in Cambridge, ed. by Michael Lapidge [=''Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies'', 69–70] (Aberystwyth: Department of Welsh, Abersytwyth University, 2015), pp. 257–66 (p. 262).
3. Web site: Prof David Denison. 7 September 2016.
4. Web site: Denison. David. Aspects of the history of English group-verbs. 7 September 2016.
5. Web site: ISLE - The International Society for the Linguistics of English . Isle-linguistics.org . 2010-10-20 . 2014-07-21 . 26 July 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140726215142/http://www.isle-linguistics.org/about/committee.asp . dead .
6. Editors' Notes. Aarts. Bas, David Denison and Richard Hogg. May 1997. English Language and Linguistics . 1 . 1 . 1–2 . 10.1017/S1360674300000320. free.
7. Web site: Department of English. Honorary Doctors - Uppsala University, Sweden. Engelska.uu.se. 2014-02-26. 2014-07-21. https://web.archive.org/web/20140812165925/http://www.engelska.uu.se/Research/English_Language/Hedersdoktorer/?languageId=1. 2014-08-12. dead.
8. Web site: Languages name two new honorary doctors - Uppsala University, Sweden. www.uu.se. 2016-02-02.
9. Web site: British Academy announces 42 new fellows . Times Higher Education . 18 July 2014 . 18 July 2014.
10. Review of English Historical Syntax: Verbal Constructions. Fischer. Olga. March 1994. Journal of Linguistics . 30 . 1 . 277–281. 10.1017/s0022226700016285. 146399253 .
11. Review of English Historical Syntax: Verbal Constructions. Stockwell. Robert P.. December 1997. Language . 73 . 4 . 858–860. 10.1353/lan.1997.0019. 144863852.