Nigel Vincent Explained

Nigel Vincent
Birth Date:	24 September 1947
Nationality:	British
Field:	Morphology, syntax, Romance linguistics
Work Institution:	The University of Manchester

Nigel Vincent is a British linguist. He is Professor Emeritus of General and Romance Linguistics at the University of Manchester.^[1] He is best known for his work on morphology, syntax, and historical linguistics, with particular focus on the Romance languages.

Vincent was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2006,^[2] and was Vice-President for Research and HE Policy at the Academy from 2010 to 2014.^[3] In 2013, he was elected a Member of the Academia Europaea.

Until 2011, he held the Mont Follick Chair of Comparative Philology in the School of Languages, Linguistics & Cultures at the University of Manchester. From 2000 to 2003, he was President of the Philological Society. He was the chair of Main Panel M^[4] in the Research Assessment Exercise, 2008.

In 2007, Vincent was honoured with a Festschrift^[5] with contributions by colleagues and former students.

Partial bibliography

• Ledgeway, A., Smith, J.C. and Vincent, N., eds. Periphrasis and Inflexion in Diachrony. A View from Romance. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
• Adams, J.N. and Vincent, N., eds. Early and Late Latin. Continuity or Change?. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016.
• Benincà, P., Ledgeway, A., and Vincent, N., eds. Dialects and Diachrony: Grammatical Changes in the Dialects of Italy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
• 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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Notes and References

1. Web site: Prof Nigel Vincent | the University of Manchester.
2. http://www.britac.ac.uk/fellowship/directory/ord.cfm?member=5412 Fellows Directory, British Academy
3. http://www.britac.ac.uk/about/officers.cfm#vincent Officers and Council 2013-14, British Academy
4. Web site: Main Panel M, Research Assessment Exercise 2008 . 2013-08-06 . 2013-04-25 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130425225639/http://www.rae.ac.uk/panels/main/m/ . dead .
5. 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.