Richard M Hogg, Manchester University


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I have been Smith Professor of English Language at Manchester since 1980, having previously worked at the Universities of Amsterdam and Lancaster. Originally I was an undergraduate and postgraduate at Edinburgh University, which is where I wrote my Ph.D. on Determiner and Number Systems in present-day English under the supervision of Angus McIntosh and John Anderson.

Nowadays my major research interests centre on the general area of English historical linguistics, with particular specialist interests in dialectology and Old English phonology and morphology. The latter resulted in the publication in 1992 of the first volume of my Old English Grammar, which deals with the phonology of Old English. At present the second volume of this work, which deals with Old English morphology, is nearing completion. I am also General Editor of The Cambridge History of the English Language, the first two volumes of which appeared in 1992, volume 5 appeared in 1994, volume 4 in 1998, and volume 3 in late 1999, with the final sixth volume scheduled to appear later this year. I edited Volume 1 (The beginnings to 1066), and wrote the chapter on phonology and morphology for that volume.

This has now led to a proposal to edit, in co-operation with David Denison, one-volume book A History of English, which is due to be published in 2002 by Cambridge University Press. The other authors who are collaborating in this work are: Ingrid Tieken (Leiden), Terttu Nevalainen (Helsinki), Roger Lass (Cape Town), Olga Fischer (Amsterdam). Wim van der Wurff (Leiden), Dieter Kastovsky (Vienna), Richard Coates (Sussex), Ed Finegan (USC) and David Crystal.

I also keep up an interest in descriptive and theoretical linguistics, and co-authored with Chris McCully a coursebook Metrical Phonology (1987). More recently I have been developing a more active interest in the theoretical issues involved in historical dialectology, interests which were first developed when I was a student in the Department of English Language at Edinburgh University. I shall be contributing the chapter on English in Britain for the new A History of English.

Together with David Denison (in this Department) and Bas Aarts (at UCL), I am one of the editors of the new Cambridge journal English Language and Linguistics, the first issue of which appeared in May 1997. Together with Nigel Vincent in the Department of Linguistics I am co-director of the HEFCE/British Academy project, Innovation and Change in the Languages of Europe.

I can offer supervision to research students in all areas of English historical phonology and morphology, with some preference for the earlier periods, and I am particularly interested in working with anyone who wishes to apply recent theoretical models to the history of English. At present I am supervising the following PhD students and MPhil students:

Other members of the English Language group at Manchester are Sylvia Adamson, Professor of Language, Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero, who completed his PhD and is now a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow and Debra Ziegler, who arrived here at the beginning of this session from Monash University. Click here for further information on English linguistics at Manchester.

Another venture with David Denison was the Tenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics which was held in Manchester in August 1998. Together with Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero, David Denison and Chris McCully, I helped to edit the conference proceedings, whuch were published in May 2000. Ricardo and I presented a paper "High Vowel Deletion in late Old English: optimality, opacity and learnability" at the August 1999 14th Conference on Historical Linguistics, held in Vancouver. The 11th ICEHL was held in Santiago (Spain) in September 2000.

The 12th ICEHL will be held in (sunny??) Glasgow in August 2002. I hope we'll see you there. And of course if you're good you'll get the chance to get across to Edinburgh! Or are my own origins becoming too obvious?

At present I am Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowship, and the project associated with this Fellowship is entitled A History of English Dialectology. See in progress for further details.

1992 The Cambridge History of the English Language, I: the beginnings to 1066 (ed.). Cambridge: C.U.P., xxiii+609

1992 "Introduction". In R.M. Hogg (ed.), The Cambridge History of the English Language, I: the beginnings to 1066. Cambridge: C.U.P., 1-25

1992 "Phonology and Morphology." In R.M. Hogg (ed.), The Cambridge History of the English Language, I: the beginnings to 1066. Cambridge: C.U.P., 67-167

1994 "Dialect variation and historical metrics." Diachronica 11.13-34 (with C.B. McCully)

1994 "Linguistics and philology and chickens and eggs." In F. Fernandez, M. Fuster and J.J. Calvo (eds.), English Historical Linguistics 1992. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 3-16

1996 "Tertiary stress in Old English: some reflections on explanatory inadequacy." In D. Britton (ed.) English Historical Linguistics 1994. Amsterdam, John Benjamins, 3-12

1996 "Old English open syllable lengthening." Transactions of the Philological Society 94.57-72

1997 "Some remarks on case marking in Old English." Transactions of the Philological Society 95.95-109

1997 "Using the future to predict the past: Old English dialectology in the light of Middle English place names." In J. Fisiak (ed.), Studies in Middle English Language. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 207-220

1997 "The morphology and dialect of Old English disyllabic nouns." In R. Hickey and S. Puppel (eds.), Language History and Linguistic Modelling. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 113-126.

1998 "On the ideological boundaries of Old English dialects." In J. Fisiak and M. Krygier (eds), Advances in English Historical Linguistics. Berlin: Mouton de Grutyer, 107-118.

1998 Historical Linguistics 1995, vol.2 Germanic (ed.) (with L.v. Bergen). Amsterdam: John Benjamins

2000 Generative Theory and Corpus Linguistics (ed) (with R. Bermúdez-Otero, D. Denison and C.B. McCully). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter

2000 "On the (non-)existence of High Vowel Deletion." In A. Lahiri (ed.) Markedness and Language Change. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 353-376.

As I mentioned above, I am just starting a Leverhulme Fellowship. One of my aims on this page will be to allow interested readers to download papers which are the result of this ongoing work. Of course it's not started yet, so you will have to be a little patient. However, some preliminary work will soon find its way here. Work on other topics will also be available whenever possible. Why not click here to see what there is.

You will need Word for Windows (7.0 or later) if you want to save the file in a fully readable form. Click on the pushpin to download. If you have difficulties reading the files please e-mail me. Comments also would be welcome.

The final year course on English Dialects which I normally offer will still be on offer while I on my Leverhulme fellowship. Please contact Debra Ziegeler.

The following MA course (in co-operation with Sylvia Adamson, David Denison, Chris McCully and Debra Ziegeler) will still be running:

In September 2001 we shall be starting a new undergraduate degree in English Language and Linguistics, which will be available to both home and overseas students. For this course, or for any other questions which you might have about our courses, please follow English linguistics at Manchester

University of Manchester
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Richard M. Hogg

University of Manchester Department of English and American Studies

Staff Research Interests

Richard M. Hogg

University of Manchester
Department of English and American Studies