Call for Papers: Fourth AMC Symposium (now closed)
The call for papers for the Fourth AMC Symposium is NOW CLOSED. We were accepting abstracts for talks and posters in the Symposium’s main theme, “Contact and Language Change”, as well as in other...
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Margaret Laing, 1953–2023
Our dear colleague, friend and Honorary AMC Member, Margaret Laing, passed away early this year. Still recovering from a months-long infection that hospitalised her in late 2022, Meg suffered an unexpected and fatal brain...
Ina Mangold to become third McIntosh-Patterson PhD Scholar
We are thrilled to announce that, staring in October 2021, Ina Mangold will be joining the AMC as the third beneficiary of the McIntosh-Patterson Doctoral Studentship. For the first time, the ‘Mac-Pat’ has been...
Applications for McIntosh-Patterson PhD Studentship are now open
We are delighted to announce that the the AMC is now taking applications for the third iteration of the McIntosh-Patterson studentship, a fully-funded three-year PhD position in historical linguistics at the University of Edinburgh...
AMC-award-winning student Rebecka Elm takes LAGB prize
The AMC is delighted to announce that Rebecka Elm (BA Hons. in Linguistics and English Language from the University of Edinburgh) has been awarded the prestigious Linguistics Association of Great Britain (LAGB) Outstanding Undergraduate...
AMC works with National Library of Scotland to bring Older Scots to the Public
Last autumn, Daisy Smith, Maddi Morcillo Berrueta and Lisa Gotthard — then postgraduate students at Edinburgh — produced a linguistic guide to the language of the 15th-century Scots poem ‘The Buke of the Howlat’...
AMC Affiliates complete syntactically parsed corpus for Early Middle English
The AMC is delighted to kick off 2018 by announcing the successful completion of an exciting project: the Parsed Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle English (PLAEME). Spearheaded by AMC affiliates Robert Truswell and Rhona...
Vasilios Karaiskos awarded Honorary AMC Membership
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...
AMC researcher awarded fellowship to study the diachrony of Mapudungun
The AMC’s Midas Touch strikes again! Our latest congratulations go to Dr Benjamin Molineaux, a member of the AMC’s FITS project, who has won a much-coveted Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship beginning in Spring 2018....
AMC researcher awarded lectureship in Glasgow on history of Scots
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...
