We are delighted to announce that the AMC’s Steering Committee has unanimously awarded an Honorary Membership to Vasilios Karaiskos of the University of Edinburgh’s School of Informatics. Vasilis, a current member of the From...
We are delighted to announce that the AMC’s Depute Director, Dr Rhona Alcorn, has recently been appointed Chief Executive of the Scottish Language Dictionaries. The SLD, an Associate Institution to the University of Edinburgh,...
The AMC announces with equal measures of delight and sadness that Dr Joanna Kopaczyk will be leaving at the end of July to take up a lectureship at the University of Glasgow. She has...
The AMC is delighted to announce that the Centre’s current McIntosh-Patterson PhD scholar, Jade Jørgen Sandstedt, has been awarded the Philological Society of Great Britain’s prestigious R. H. Robins student Prize. The Prize is awarded...
The Angus McIntosh Centre would like to congratulate Ms. Meira Kalasegaran, who has been awarded this year’s Angus McIntosh Prize for her outstanding Honours dissertation. The successful paper is entitled ‘Cross-linguistic influence in simultaneous...
Dr. Pavel Iosad, Lecturer in Theoretical Phonology at the University of Edinburgh and an AMC affiliate, has been awarded a one-year Carnegie Research Initiative Grant for the project: Preaspiration in North Germanic: interval variation...
Few people could be said to have advanced our knowledge of the Scots Language, past and present, as did A. J. Aitken (1921-1998). He was one of the principal lexicographers of the Dictionary of...
The AMC would like to congratulate Ms. Asha Stewart, our first recipient of the Angus McIntosh Prize. This honour is awarded by the AMC’s Steering Committee to the best First Class Honours dissertation in...
AMC Affiliates and members of the FITS team Warren Maguire and Joanna Kopaczyk have joined the Forum for Research on Languages of Scotland and Ulster Committee at the recent FRLSU conference in Ayr. The main aim...
The AMC’s From Inglis To Scots (FITS) project has launched its new website at http://www.amc.lel.ed.ac.uk/fits/. The project surveys the variation in spelling within the earliest recorded period of Scots (1480-1500), based on data from A Linguistic Atlas of Older Scots....
Registration is open for the 4th AMC Symposium
6 Nov, 2024
