Rebecca Posner

Rebecca Posner (née Reynolds; 17 August 1929 – 19 July 2018)[1] was a British philologist, linguist and academic, who specialized in Romance languages.

Biography

Posner took her D.Phil. from Somerville College, Oxford in 1958.[2] She then was a Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge (1960–1963), Professor of French Studies at the University of Ghana (1963–1965), and a Reader in Language at the University of York (1965–1978).[3]

From 1978 to 1996, Posner was Professor of Romance Languages at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St Hugh's College, Oxford. Following her retirement she became professor emeritus of Oxford and an honorary fellow of St Hugh's College.

She served as President of the Philological Society from 1996 to 2000. She was the recipient of a festschrift volume edited by two of her former colleagues, John Green and Wendy Ayres-Bennett: Variation and Change in French: essays presented to Rebecca Posner on the occasion of her sixtieth birthday (London, Routledge, 1990).

Personal life

In 1953, Rebecca, then Reynolds, married economist Michael Posner (died in 2006). Together they had two children: a son, Christopher, and a daughter, Barbara.[2][3]

Selected works
  • Posner, Rebecca (1961). Consonantal Dissimilation in the Romance Languages. The Philological Society. ISBN 978-0631062608.
  • Posner, Rebecca (1996). The Romance Languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521236546.[4]
  • Posner, Rebecca (1997). Linguistic Change in French. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0198240365.

References
  1. "Rebecca Posner". Philological Society. 28 July 2018. Retrieved 28 July 2018.
  2. Rebecca Posner, former Fellow of the College, has died at 88. Published 31 July 2018 by St Hugh's College, Oxford. Retrieved 7 August 2018.
  3. "POSNER, Prof. Rebecca". Who's Who 2017. Oxford University Press. November 2016. Retrieved 14 January 2017.
  4. Rebecca Posner (5 September 1996). The Romance Languages. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-28139-3.
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