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...
This summer, the FITS team will present the fruits of their research at the International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, to take place at the University of Duisburg-Essen on 22-26 August 2016. Benjamin Molineaux...
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...
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...
Registration is open for the 5th AMC Symposium
12 Oct, 2026
