Theodora Bynon | |
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Born | 1936 |
Spouse | James Bynon |
Scientific career | |
Doctoral students | Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy |
Theodora Bynon (born 1936) is a British linguist and Emeritus Professor of Historical Linguistics at SOAS University of London. She was a student of the German linguist Hans Krahe and studied the ergative case in languages such as Kurdish.[1][2] She is known for her works on historical linguistics and wrote what is considered a seminal text in 1977.[3]