John Lyons (linguist)
Sir John Lyons FBA (23 May 1932 – 12 March 2020) was a British linguist, working on semantics.
Sir John Lyons | |
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| Born | 23 May 1932 Stretford, Lancashire, England |
| Died | 12 March 2020 (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 |
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