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Sir John Lyons | |
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Born | Stretford, Lancashire, England | 23 May 1932
Died | 12 March 2020 | (aged 87)
Nationality | British |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Christ's College, Cambridge |
Thesis | A structural theory of semantics and its application to some lexical subsystems in the vocabulary of Plato (1960) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Linguist |
Institutions | SOAS Indiana University University of Edinburgh University of Sussex University of Cambridge |
Main interests | Semantics |
Sir John Lyons FBA (23 May 1932 – 12 March 2020) was a British linguist, working on semantics.