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Angus McIntosh Centre for Historical Linguistics

Description

The Angus McIntosh Centre for Historical Linguistics (AMC) draws on, and seeks to continue, a long and distinguished history of studies at the University of Edinburgh.

Its roots lie in its immediate predecessor the Institute for Historical Dialectology (IHD), originally founded in 1952 by Angus McIntosh (then the University’s Forbes Professor of English Language and General Linguistics) as the Middle English Dialect Project.

The transition from the IHD to the AMC toward the end of 2013 represents a major initiative intended to increase the visibility of Edinburgh’s contribution to historical linguistics in the research community locally, nationally and internationally.

It implies a broadening of scope, and the transformation of a relatively small research unit into a hub of research activity into any aspect of historical linguistics as well as the study of language change.

In the current, initial phase of the Centre’s research activity the history of Scots figures prominently. In anticipation of this new direction of research, Associated Institution status was awarded to the Scottish Language Dictionaries in 2013.

Offers funding

No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.

Founding year

2013

Contact details

University Of Edinburgh
Old College
South Bridge
Edinburgh
EH8 9YL
United Kingdom
Website: http://www.amc.lel.ed.ac.uk/

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Type

  • University-based infrastructure
  • Centre

Project Tags

  • Language tag
  • Linguistics tag

University affiliation(s)

University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh

Last modified:

2023-09-20 15:00:10

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