James Hurford

James Hurford
Born16 July 1941 (1941-07-16) (age 83)
EducationUniversity College London (PhD)
Scientific career
Fieldslinguistics
InstitutionsUniversity of Edinburgh
ThesisThe speech of one family : a phonetic comparison of the speech of three generations in a family of East Londoners (1965)
Doctoral advisorJ. D O'Connor
Other academic advisorsDennis Fry, A. C. Gimson, Michael Halliday, Gordon Frederick Arnold, Robert M. W. Dixon, John C. Wells, Olive M. Tooley
Doctoral studentsPhilip Carr, Simon M. Kirby

James Raymond Hurford, FBA (born 16 July 1941) is a retired linguist and academic.[1]

He was the General Editor of the book series Oxford Studies in the Evolution of Language,[2] as well as a member of the Centre for Language Evolution (formerly Language Evolution and Computation) research group at the University of Edinburgh where he is an emeritus professor.

He also helped organize the series of International Conferences on the Evolution of Language, of which he was one of the founders.[3]

Hurford was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2015.[4]

  1. ^ "Hurford, Prof. James Raymond", Who's Who (Oxford University Press, December 2017). Retrieved 30 June 2018.
  2. ^ Jim Hurford Home Page James Hurford home page
  3. ^ International Conferences on the Evolution of Language.
  4. ^ "British Academy New Fellows 2015" (PDF). British Academy. Retrieved 2 November 2016.