Neil Smith (linguist)

Smith was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA) in 1999. He was made an Honorary Member of the Linguistic Society of America in 2000. ==Personal life and death==

Smith was married to Saras Smith ( Saraswati Keskar, 1936–2018). Together they endowed the Neil and Saras Smith Medal for Linguistics. Smith died on 16 November 2023, at the age of 83–84. ==Selected works==

• An Outline Grammar of Nupe (School of Oriental and African Studies Press, 1967) • The Acquisition of Phonology (Cambridge University Press, 1973) • ''Modern Linguistics: The Results of Chomsky's Revolution'' (with Deirdre Wilson; Penguin, 1979) • The Twitter Machine: Reflections on Language (Blackwell, 1989) • The Mind of a Savant (with Ianthi-Maria Tsimpli; Blackwell, 1995) • Chomsky: Ideas and Ideals (Cambridge University Press, 1999; second edition 2004; third edition, with Nicholas Allott, 2016) • Language, Bananas and Bonobos: Linguistic Problems, Puzzles and Polemics (Blackwell, 2002) • Language, Frogs and Savants: More Linguistic Problems, Puzzles and Polemics (Blackwell, 2005) • Acquiring Phonology: A Cross-generational Case-study (Cambridge University Press, 2010) • The Signs of a Savant (with Gary Morgan, Ianthi-Maria Tsimpli and Bencie Woll) (Cambridge University Press, 2011) ==References==