John Lyons (linguist)

Sir
John Lyons
Born(1932-05-23)23 May 1932
Stretford, Lancashire, England
Died12 March 2020(2020-03-12) (aged 87)
NationalityBritish
Academic background
Alma materChrist's College, Cambridge
ThesisA structural theory of semantics and its application to some lexical subsystems in the vocabulary of Plato (1960)
Academic work
DisciplineLinguist
InstitutionsSOAS
Indiana University
University of Edinburgh
University of Sussex
University of Cambridge
Main interestsSemantics

Sir John Lyons FBA (23 May 1932 – 12 March 2020) was a British linguist, working on semantics.