The 5th AMC Symposium will be taking place this 7-9 December at the Edinburgh Futures Institute (EFI). This year’s topic is ‘Types of Evidence in Historical Linguistics’, which has brought together a fantastic programme...
The 4th AMC Symposium will be taking place this 2-4 December at the Edinburgh Futures Institute (EFI). This year’s topic is ‘Contact and language change’, which has brought together a fantastic programme of plenaries,...
We are delighted to announce that the latest McIntosh-Patterson was awarded this summer — after stiff competition — to Jack Heitman. This is a three-year stipend and full-fees scholarship to be conducted under...
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...
We are delighted to announce that Sarah van Eyndhoven, the second McIntosh-Patterson PhD Scholar at the AMC, has very successfully passed her viva-voce examination with a recommendation of only minor corrections. Sarah’s dissertation is...
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...
Registration is open for the 5th AMC Symposium
12 Oct, 2026
