Adam Ledgeway
Adam Noel Ledgeway, FBA is an academic linguist, specialising in Italian and other Romance languages. Since 2015, he has been Chair of the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages at the University of Cambridge; he has also been Professor of Italian and Romance Linguistics at the University since 2013 and a Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge, since 1996. After completing his undergraduate degree at the University of Salford, Ledgeway studied for his master's degree at the University of Manchester, which also awarded him his doctorate in 1996. He took up a temporary assistant lectureship at Cambridge in 1997, which was made permanent the following year, before being promoted to lecturer in 2001 and senior lecturer three years later.Honours
In July 2017, Ledgeway was elected a Fellow of the British Academy, the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.Selected works
The following are books which Ledgeway has edited or authored:
- A Comparative Syntax of the Dialects of Southern Italy: A Minimalist Approach.
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- Grammatica Diacronica del Napoletano, Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie, Band 350.
- Syntactic Variation: The dialects of Italy.
- In and Out of Italy: Lingua e Cultura della Migrazione Italiana.
- The Cambridge History of the Romance Languages, vol. 1: Structures.
- From Latin to Romance. Morphosyntactic Typology and Change.
- Le Comunità Immigranti nel Regno Unito: Il Caso di Bedford.
- The Cambridge History of the Romance Languages. Vol. 2: Contexts.
- Diachrony and Dialects. Grammatical Change in the Dialects of Italy.
- The Oxford Guide to the Romance Languages.
- The Cambridge Handbook of Historical Syntax.
- De la Latină la Limbile Romanice. Schimbare Morfosintactică și Tipologică.
