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James Hurford
British linguist
James Raymond Hurford, FBA (born 16 July 1941) is a linguist and academic.[1]
He is the General Editor of the book series Oxford Studies in the Evolution of Language,[2] as well as a member of the Centre for Language Evolution (formerly Language Evolution and Computation) research group at the University of Edinburgh where he is an emeritus professor.
He also helps organize the series of International Conferences on the Evolution of Language[3]
Hurford was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2015.[4]