John Lyons (linguist)

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Sir John Lyons FBA
Born	(1932-05-23)23 May 1932 Stretford, Lancashire, England
Died	12 March 2020(2020-03-12) (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.