| read English at Cambridge;
worked in Uganda for the British Council;
taught at the University College of Cape Coast in Ghana;
took his Ph.D. in linguistics at Edinburgh;
taught in the Department of Linguistics, Edinburgh;
worked at University of Cambridge as Senior Research Fellow in the Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics;
an Associate Lecturer in the Faculty of English at Cambridge;
held visiting professorships at the Universities of Heidelberg, Vienna, and Dusseldorf;
Chairman of the Linguistics Committee of the Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies;
co-editor of Transactions of the Philological Society;
works include Linguistics Today (Fontana, 1984) and co-author, with Jim Miller, of Syntax: A Linguistic Introduc-
tion to Sentence Structure and Syntax: Generative Grammar (Hutchinson, 1981). He was syntax editor for the
first edition of the Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics and was joint editor, with Jim Miller of A Concise
Encyclopedia of Linguistic Theories and A Concise Encyclopedia of Grammatical Categories (Pergamon Press, 1997 and 1998);
joint editor of Common Denominators in Art and Science (Aberdeen University Press, 1983) and Language, Reasoning and Inference (Academic Press, 1986) | Brown, K. (ed.), 2005 |
