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Theodora Bynon (born 1936) is a British linguist and Emeritus Professor of Historical Linguistics at SOAS University of London. She was a student of the German linguist Hans Krahe and studied the ergative case in languages such as Kurdish. She is known for her works on historical linguistics and wrote what is considered a seminal text in 1977.

Books

• Historical Linguistics, Cambridge University Press, 1977
• James and Theodora Bynon (eds.), Hamito-Semitica, London 1975
• Masayoshi Shibatani & Theodora Bynon, Approaches to language typology, Clarendon Press, 1995.

References

1. Bynon, Theodora; Bynon, Professor of Historical Linguistics Soas Theodora (15 September 1977). Historical Linguistics. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-29188-0.
2. Bynon, Theodora (1979). "The Ergative Construction in Kurdish". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. 42 (2): 211–224. doi:10.1017/S0041977X0014577X. ISSN 0041-977X. JSTOR 615012. S2CID 153447165.
3. "Book review".
4. Haspelmath, Martin (1996). "Review of Approaches to Language Typology". Journal of Linguistics. 32 (2): 513–517. doi:10.1017/S0022226700016005. ISSN 0022-2267. JSTOR 4176380. S2CID 144800272.

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