English Language Research Group

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The area carries on research on linguistic theory, historical linguistics and language variation as applied to the English language.

Edinburgh has a long and illustrious history of investigating the linguistics of English and Scots, both synchronic and diachronic. Researchers in Edinburgh benefit from an enormous body of collectively-available knowledge about these areas.

Members consider how linguistic theory can be developed in relation to English and how English can be better understood through the insights offered by linguistic theory, and they work on aspects of historical and variationist linguistics.

Some of this work has been carried out under the umbrella of the Angus McIntosh Centre for Historical Linguistics (previously the Institute for Historical Dialectology).

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University of Edinburgh
Old College
South Bridge
Edinburgh
EH8 9YL