PhD Linguistics and English Language in Edinburgh United Kingdom | The University of Edinburgh

Our department boasts a distinguished global reputation across numerous Linguistics and English Language research fields. According to Times Higher Education's assessment based on the most recent Research Excellence Framework, Linguistics & English Language ranks 3rd in the UK for research quality and scope.

Students benefit from specialized guidance covering diverse subjects, such as:

Applied Linguistics
Language development studies, encompassing both first and additional language learning
Discourse studies and conversational analysis
Historical linguistics of English, tracing syntactic, morphological, and phonological changes from ancient times to modern usage
The origins and development of language
Field research in linguistics
Word structure and formation processes
Multilingual communication studies
Speech sounds and sound systems, including historical phonology and the sound patterns of English varieties, Scots, and their historical development