{{short description|British linguist (born 1950)|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{for|the Canadian businessman|David F. Denison}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''David Michael Benjamin Denison''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FBA}} (born 6 September 1950)<ref>[http://www.ukwhoswho.com/abstract/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-282241 "Denison, Prof. David Michael Benjamin"], ''Who's Who'' (online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2017). Retrieved 5 July 2018.</ref> is a British linguist whose work focuses on the history of the English language.
==Biography== He was educated at Highgate School{{citation needed|date=April 2023}} and St John's College, Cambridge, where he studied mathematics and then Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic,<ref name="UM" /> completing the latter tripos with an upper second-class degree in 1973.<ref>'Appendix V. Candidates who Took the Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic Tripos between 1900 and 1999', in ''H. M. Chadwick and the Study of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic in Cambridge'', ed. by Michael Lapidge [=''Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies'', 69–70] (Aberystwyth: Department of Welsh, Abersytwyth University, 2015), pp. 257–66 (p. 262).</ref> He earned his doctorate at Lincoln College, Oxford on "Aspects of the History of English Group-Verbs, with Particular Attention to the Syntax of the ''Ormulum''".<ref name="UM">{{cite web|title=Prof David Denison|url=http://www.manchester.ac.uk/research/David.denison/|access-date=7 September 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Denison|first1=David|title=Aspects of the history of English group-verbs|url=https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/files/37801128/SUPPLEMENTARY_1.PDF|access-date=7 September 2016}}</ref> He was Smith Professor of English Language & Medieval Literature at the University of Manchester from 2008. Since March 2015 he has been Professor Emeritus of English Linguistics.<ref name="UM"/> He is a past president of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.isle-linguistics.org/about/committee.asp |title=ISLE - The International Society for the Linguistics of English |publisher=Isle-linguistics.org |date=2010-10-20 |access-date=2014-07-21 |archive-date=26 July 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140726215142/http://www.isle-linguistics.org/about/committee.asp |url-status=dead }}</ref>
Denison served from 1995 to 2010 as one of the founding editors of the journal ''English Language and Linguistics''.<ref>{{Cite journal|title = Editors' Notes|last = Aarts|first = Bas, David Denison and Richard Hogg|date = May 1997|journal = English Language and Linguistics |volume=1 |issue=1 |pages=1–2 |doi = 10.1017/S1360674300000320|doi-access = free}}</ref> In 2014 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Languages at Uppsala University.<ref>{{cite web|author = Department of English|url = http://www.engelska.uu.se/Research/English_Language/Hedersdoktorer/?languageId=1|title = Honorary Doctors - Uppsala University, Sweden|publisher = Engelska.uu.se|date = 2014-02-26|access-date = 2014-07-21|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140812165925/http://www.engelska.uu.se/Research/English_Language/Hedersdoktorer/?languageId=1|archive-date = 2014-08-12|url-status = dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title = Languages name two new honorary doctors - Uppsala University, Sweden|url = http://www.uu.se/en/research/grants-awards/article/?id=2955&area=2,6,12,16&typ=artikel&lang=en|website = www.uu.se|access-date = 2016-02-02}}</ref> In 2014 he was also elected a Fellow of the British Academy, the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.<ref name="BA Fellow">{{cite web | url=http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/british-academy-announces-42-new-fellows/2014585.article | title=British Academy announces 42 new fellows | publisher=Times Higher Education | date=18 July 2014 | access-date=18 July 2014}}</ref>
He is one of the contributors to ''The Cambridge grammar of the English language''. == Selected publications == *R. Hogg, D. Denison (eds.). 2006. ''A History of the English Language.'' Cambridge Univ. Press. *B. Aarts, D. Denison, E. Keizer, G. Popova (eds.) 2004. ''Fuzzy Grammar: a reader''. Oxford Univ. Press. *D. Denison. 1999. "Gradience and linguistic change". In ''Historical Linguistics''. Ed. L. Brinton. John Benjamins. * D. Denison. 1998. "Syntax". In ''The Cambridge History of the English Language.'' Vol. IV: ''1776–1997.'' Ed. S. Romaine. Cambridge Univ. Press, pp. 92–329. *D. Denison. 1993. ''English Historical Syntax: Verbal Constructions''. Longman.<ref>{{Cite journal|title = Review of English Historical Syntax: Verbal Constructions|last = Fischer|first = Olga|date = March 1994|journal = Journal of Linguistics |volume=30 |issue=1 |pages=277–281|doi = 10.1017/s0022226700016285| s2cid=146399253 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|title = Review of English Historical Syntax: Verbal Constructions|last = Stockwell|first = Robert P.|date = December 1997|journal = Language |volume=73 |issue=4 |pages=858–860|doi = 10.1353/lan.1997.0019|s2cid = 144863852}}</ref>
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