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...
AMC Affiliates Rob Truswell and Rhona Alcorn, both Research Fellows at the University of Edinburgh, have been awarded a British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grant to parse a 200,000-word sample from the Linguistic Atlas of...
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....
Have a look at the British Association for Applied Linguistics‘ calendar for all events sociolinguistic, where you will find the AMC Symposium scheduled in for the 9-10 June 2016, as well as a number of other...
In order to disseminate work and events, and to function as Edinburgh’s hub for all things historical linguistics, the AMC has just opened Facebook and Twitter accounts. If you are on either of these...
The FITS Project will be well represented at the Forum for Research on the Languages of Scotland and Ulster’s triennial conferences, to be held between 12 and 14 August 2015 at the University of the West of Scotland...
The Second Edinburgh Symposium on Historical Phonology featuring the Angus McIntosh Centre for Historical Linguistics plenary speaker will be hosted by the Department of Linguistics and English Language on the 3rd and 4th December, 2015. One-page abstracts addressing both theoretical and...
In accordance to the AMC’s commitment to raising the profile of historical linguistics at Edinburgh, as well as its interest in providing a highly visible platform for it’s various resources and projects, this all-new web-site was...
