Richard Milne Hogg, FBA, FRSE (20 May 1944 – 6 September 2007) was a Scottish linguist who was well known for his research on Old English, phonology, and English dialects. He received his Ph.D. from
Edinburgh University in 1975 under the supervision of
Angus McIntosh and John Anderson. He was initially a lecturer in English at the
University of Amsterdam from 1969 to 1973, then taught at the
University of Lancaster; from 1980 until his death in 2007 he was Smith Professor of English Language and Medieval Literature at the
University of Manchester. He served as dean of the arts faculty at Manchester from 1990 to 1993.
Hogg was the General Editor of ''
The Cambridge History of the English Language'' (six volumes, published between 1992 and 2001). In 1997 he became one of the founding editors of the journal ''
English Language and Linguistics.'' His ''Grammar of Old English'', 2, ''Morphology'', was completed after his death by Rob Fulk and published in 2011. A collection of essays in Hogg's honour, ''Analysing Older English'', was published in 2012. In 2008, a fellowship for young scholars was set up in his name, sponsored by the
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Hogg was elected as a fellow of the
British Academy in 1994. In 2004 he became a fellow of the
Royal Society of Edinburgh
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Selected publications
*R. M. Hogg, R.D. Fulk - 2011. A Grammar of Old English, Volume 2: Morphology.
*R. M. Hogg. 1992. A Grammar of Old English: Vol. 1.
*R. M. Hogg. 1992. "3 Phonology and Morphology." The Cambridge history of the English language.
*R. M. Hogg and C.B. McCully. 1987. Metrical phonology: a course book.
*R. M. Hogg. 1977. English quantifier systems.
References
Scottish linguists
Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Fellows of the British Academy
1944 births
2007 deaths
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