Australian linguist
William Bernard McGregor is an Australian linguist. As of 2024[ [update]] he is professor in linguistics at Aarhus University in Denmark. 
Early life and education.
William Bernard McGregor received his PhD degree from the University of Sydney in 1984. 
Career.
After gaining his doctorate, McGregor had a number of positions through different institutions in Australia, before moving to Europe. He was appointed senior research fellow at KU Leuven in Belgium in 1998, and then visiting research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, Netherlands, for one and a half years. Since 2000, he has been full professor at Aarhus University.
He specialises in the description of mainly non-Pama-Nyungan Australian languages, and does descriptive linguistic work on Gooniyandi, Nyulnyul and Warrwa languages. Since 2010 he has also studied Shua, a language spoken in Botswana, in Africa. He works on theoretical and typological issues from within a variation of systemic functional linguistics dubbed "semiotic grammar", developed by him.
Apart from his own works on linguistics, McGregor has also published articles and book chapters about the work of other linguists in Australia, notably the work of German linguists and ethnographers such as Pallottine missionary Ernest Worms and his mentor, Hermann Nekes.
Recognition and honours.
McGregor was elected fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1999, and became a member of Academia Europaea in 2014. and
In 2010 he was honoured with the Danish honour, the Order of the Dannebrog, becoming a Knight of Dannebrog. 
Other activities.
As of September 2024[ [update]] he serves on the editorial boards of the "Australian Journal of Linguistics" and "Language and History".
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