William B. McGregor

William Bernard McGregor is an Australian linguist. , he is a professor in linguistics at Aarhus University in Denmark.

Career McGregor received his doctorate from the University of Sydney in 1984. Afterwards, McGregor had a number of positions through different institutions in Australia, before moving to Europe. He was appointed senior research fellow at KU Leuven in Belgium in 1998, and then visiting research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, Netherlands, for one and a half years. Since 2000, he has been a full professor at Aarhus University.

In addition to his own books, McGregor has published articles and book chapters about the work of other social scientists in Australia, notably the work of German linguists and ethnographers such as Pallottine missionary Ernest Worms and his mentor.

Recognition and honours McGregor was elected a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1999, and became a member of Academia Europaea in 2014.

In 2010, Denmark honoured him with knighthood in the Order of the Dannebrog.

Other activities he serves on the editorial boards of the Australian Journal of Linguistics and Language and History.

Selected publications

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