Rebecca Posner | |
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Born | Rebecca Reynolds 17 August 1929 Shotton Colliery, County Durham, England |
Died | 19 July 2018 | (aged 88)
Nationality | British |
Spouse | |
Children | Two |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Somerville College, Oxford |
Doctoral advisor | Alfred Ewert |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Philology and linguistics |
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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.