Aditi Lahiri

Aditi Lahiri (born 1952 in Calcutta, India) is a German linguist and has held the Chair of Linguistics at the University of Oxford since 2007. She is a Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford.

Early life and education

Lahiri was born on 14 July 1952 in Calcutta, India.^[1] She was educated at the Bethune College, Kolkata, India, and later at the University of Calcutta.^[2] She earned two doctorates; one from the University of Calcutta in comparative philology and one in linguistics from Brown University.^[3]

Academic career

Lahiri has taught at the University of California at Los Angeles and at the University of California at Santa Cruz, and worked as a research scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in the Netherlands^[3] and as a professor at the University of Konstanz.^[4]

She has held the Chair of Linguistics at the University of Oxford and been a fellow of Somerville College, Oxford since 2007.^[1]

Honours

In 2007, Lahiri was elected a Member of the Academia Europaea. In 2010, she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA).^[1]

She received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize in 2000.^[5]

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