# Adam Ledgeway
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* [University of Salford](/source/University_of_Salford)
* [University of Manchester](/source/University_of_Manchester)
}}|discipline=Linguist|sub_discipline=Romance linguistics|workplaces=[Università degli Studi di Bergamo](/source/Universit%C3%A0_degli_Studi_di_Bergamo)}}
'''Adam Noel Ledgeway''', [FBA](/source/Fellow_of_the_British_Academy) (born 29 December 1970) is an academic linguist, specialising in [Italian](/source/Italian_language) and other [Romance languages](/source/Romance_languages). Since 2015, he has been Chair of the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages at the [University of Cambridge](/source/University_of_Cambridge); he has also been Professor of Italian and Romance Linguistics at the University since 2013 and a Fellow of [Downing College, Cambridge](/source/Downing_College%2C_Cambridge), since 1996 (having previously been a Research Fellow there for a year). After completing his undergraduate degree at the [University of Salford](/source/University_of_Salford), Ledgeway studied for his master's degree at the [University of Manchester](/source/University_of_Manchester), which also awarded him his doctorate in 1996. He took up a temporary assistant lectureship at Cambridge in 1997, which was made permanent the following year, before being promoted to lecturer in 2001 and senior lecturer three years later[[http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-289665 "Ledgeway, Prof. Adam Noel"], ''Who's Who'' (online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2017). Retrieved 12 April 2018.][[http://www.dow.cam.ac.uk/people/professor-adam-ledgeway "Professor Adam Ledgeway"], ''University of Cambridge''. Retrieved 12 April 2018.][[https://www.britac.ac.uk/users/professor-adam-ledgeway "Professor Adam Ledgeway"], ''British Academy''. Retrieved 12 April 2018.]. Since September 2024, he has been a full professor of Italian Linguistics at [Università degli Studi di Bergamo](/source/Universit%C3%A0_degli_Studi_di_Bergamo).
[[http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-289665 "Ledgeway, Prof. Adam Noel"], ''Who's Who'' (online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2017). Retrieved 12 April 2018.][[http://www.dow.cam.ac.uk/people/professor-adam-ledgeway "Professor Adam Ledgeway"], ''University of Cambridge''. Retrieved 12 April 2018.][[https://www.britac.ac.uk/users/professor-adam-ledgeway "Professor Adam Ledgeway"], ''British Academy''. Retrieved 12 April 2018.]
== Honours ==
In July 2017, Ledgeway was elected a [Fellow of the British Academy](/source/Fellow_of_the_British_Academy) (FBA), the United Kingdom's [national academy](/source/national_academy) for the humanities and social sciences.[[http://www.britac.ac.uk/news/elections-british-academy-celebrate-diversity-uk-research "Elections to the British Academy celebrate the diversity of UK research"], ''British Academy'', 5 August 2017. Retrieved 12 April 2018.]
== Selected works ==
The following are books which Ledgeway has edited or authored:[[https://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/sites/www.mml.cam.ac.uk/files/ledgeway_pulibshed_works.pdf "Professor Adam Ledgeway: Published Works"], University of Cambridge. Retrieved 12 April 2018.]
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* ''A Comparative Syntax of the Dialects of Southern Italy: A Minimalist Approach'' (Oxford: Blackwell, 2000).
* (Edited with Anna Laura Lepschy) ''Didattica della lingua italiana: Testo e contesto.'' Perugia: Guerra, 2008).
* ''Grammatica Diacronica del Napoletano'', Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie, Band 350 (Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 2009).
* (Co-edited with Roberta D'Alessandro and Ian Roberts) ''Syntactic Variation: The dialects of Italy'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010).
* (Edited with Anna Laura Lepschy) ''In and Out of Italy: Lingua e Cultura della Migrazione Italiana'' (Perugia: Guerra, 2010).
* (Co-edited with Martin Maiden and John Charles Smith) ''The Cambridge History of the Romance Languages'', vol. 1: Structures (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011).
* ''From Latin to Romance. Morphosyntactic Typology and Change'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012).
* (Edited with Anna Laura Lepschy) ''Le Comunità Immigranti nel Regno Unito: Il Caso di Bedford'' (Perugia: Guerra, 2012).
* (Edited) ''The Cambridge History of the Romance Languages''. Vol. 2: Contexts (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013).
* (Edited with Paola Benincà and Nigel Vincent) ''Diachrony and Dialects. Grammatical Change in the Dialects of Italy'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014).
* (Edited with Martin Maiden) ''The Oxford Guide to the Romance Languages'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016).
* (Edited with Ian Roberts) ''The Cambridge Handbook of Historical Syntax'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017).
* ''De la Latină la Limbile Romanice. Schimbare Morfosintactică și Tipologică'' (Bucharest: Editura Univers Enclopedic, 2017).
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