She spent all her academic career at the University of Cambridge; she was a lecturer in the history of linguistics from 1984 to 1998, and Reader in the History of Linguistic Thought from 1998 to her death on 2002.
She spent all her academic career at the University of Cambridge. She was a lecturer in the history of linguistics from 1984 to 1998, and Reader in the History of Linguistic Thought from 1998 to her death on 2002.