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...
It is with great pleasure that the AMC received the above finely crafted wooden plaque, which bears an excerpt from a letter from the Centre’s namesake to J. H. Delargy. The words highlight Angus McIntosh’s belief...
A network for corpus linguists working/studying in Scotland was launched this January. The rationale behind the Corpus Linguistics in Scotland (CLiS) Network is to provide a forum which will facilitate the sharing of research and...
The Angus McIntosh Centre for Historical Linguistics is pleased to announce the availability of a fully funded three-year position, the McIntosh-Patterson PhD Studentship. The first award will be to a September 2015 entrant. The successful applicant’s primary...
The Angus McIntosh Centre’s new AHRC funded project From Inglis to Scots (FITS) has been featured in the Scottish Language Dictionary’s semi-annual SLD Newsletter. The brief article gives a summary of the project and...
With the arrival of two new research assistants, Joanna Kopaczyk (previously at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań) and Benjamin Molineaux (previously at Oxford), as well as a new doctoral candidate, Daisy Smith, the work on the...
The Centre’s new AHRC-funded project, From Inglis to Scots: Mapping sounds to spellings (FITS) has acquired two new Research Assistants: Joanna Kopaczyk and Benjamin Molineaux. Joanna joins us from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, where she...
The AMC is very happy to welcome Daisy Smith as a doctoral student within its From Inglis to Scots project. Daisy was awarded a three-year AHRC-funded studentship to research the spellings and sounds of Older Scots...
Registration is open for the 5th AMC Symposium
12 Oct, 2026
