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Professor Angus McIntosh FBA

English Language and Literature; Medieval Studies
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
1989
Year of birth
1914
Year of death
2005
Honours
FBA
Sections
Linguistics and Philology

Current post

Professor Emeritus of English Language, University of Edinburgh; Honorary consultant, Institute for Historical Dialectology and Honorary Research Fellow, University of Glasgow

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Professor Elizabeth Traugott FBA

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Professor Paul Kiparsky FBA

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