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...
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...
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...
This year’s invited talk by Professor Dag Haug, of the University of Oslo, is being postponed due to planned strike action on the original date (27 November). The event will now take place on 11...
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...
The AMC is proud to announce that on 20 March 2019, Jade Sandstedt, the first beneficiary of the McIntosh-Patterson Doctoral Studentship, passed his viva voce examination with flying colours and a recommendation of only...
We are delighted to announce that Dr. Alpo Honkapohja, a long-term visiting researcher at the AMC, has been awarded the prestigious Neil Ker Memorial Fund to continue his work on medical manuscripts of the...
The AMC is delighted to announce that a shiny new collection of papers – based mostly on work presented at the First AMC Symposium – has now hit the bookshops. Historical Dialectology in the...
The AMC is delighted to have one of its affiliates, Marie Vaňková, visiting us (26-29 Nov, 2018) from Charles University, Prague, where she is a PhD candidate focusing on materials from the Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle English (LAEME). Marie’s...
On 1 November 2018, the AMC will begin a major overhaul of its online resources, i.e. LAEME (A Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle English), LAOS (A Linguistic Atlas of Older Scots), eLALME (An Electronic Version...
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’...
9 May, 2023