Rebecca Posner

Rebecca Posner
Born
Rebecca Reynolds

17 August 1929
Shotton Colliery, County Durham, England
Died19 July 2018(2018-07-19) (aged 88)
NationalityBritish
Spouse
(m. 1953; died 2006)
ChildrenTwo
Academic background
Alma materSomerville College, Oxford
Doctoral advisorAlfred Ewert
Academic work
DisciplinePhilology and linguistics
Sub-discipline
Institutions

Rebecca Posner (née Reynolds; 17 August 1929 – 19 July 2018)[1] was a British philologist, linguist and academic, who specialized in Romance languages. Having taught at Girton College, Cambridge, the University of Ghana, and the University of York, she was Professor of the Romance Languages at the University of Oxford from 1978 to 1996.

  1. ^ "Rebecca Posner". Philological Society. 28 July 2018. Retrieved 28 July 2018.

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