David Adger was born on 23 September 1967 and is a Professor of Linguistics at Queen Mary University of London.
19 Facts About David Adger
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David Adger was born on 23 September 1967 in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland.
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At the age of eleven Adger became fascinated by language, reading Ursula K Le Guin's A Wizard of Earthsea.
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At the age of sixteen, David Adger won a school competition coordinated by the University of St Andrews and spent the money on copies of Noam Chomsky's Aspects of the Theory of Syntax.
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David Adger studied linguistics and artificial intelligence at the University of Edinburgh.
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David Adger has described his undergraduate teaching as one of the "exhilarating experiences of my life".
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David Adger remained in Edinburgh for his graduate studies, working toward a master's in cognitive science.
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David Adger completed a doctorate under the supervision of Elisabet Engdahl in 1994.
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David Adger became a lecturer at the University of York in 1993.
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In 2002 David Adger moved to the Queen Mary University of London, where he had been appointed Reader in Linguistics.
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David Adger's research considers the science of language, and whether human brains create language because of our ability to recognise patterns or because of a specifically linguistic ability.
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David Adger has investigated the nature of grammatical structure and the relationship between sociolinguistic theories and syntactic structure.
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In 2015, David Adger was elected as the seventeenth president of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain.
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David Adger visited the University of Maryland, College Park in 2016, where he delivered a series of lectures discussing minimalist syntax, semantics and merge.
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In July 2020, David Adger was a notable signee on a petition for the removal of Steven Pinker from the Linguistic Society of America's honorary status as Fellow of the society.
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David Adger has created fictional languages for several television productions, including Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands and Nautilus.
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From 2007 to 2013 David Adger served as editor of Syntax.
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David Adger is a member of 500 Queer Scientists, an organisation that champions LGBT scientists and engineers.
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David Adger was listed as one Queen Mary University of London LGBT+ role models in 2018.