Course | Benjamin Molineaux (Edinburgh)

Historical Phonology

Wed, 24 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I am one of the two course organisers for Historical Phonology in 2025-26 (along with Patrick Honeybone)

The course focuses on skills and theories related to reconstructing past phonological stages and their changes.

History of Scots

Wed, 24 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I will be teaching a couple of weeks on the History of Scots cours in Semmester 2 of 2025-26 (along with Course Organiser, Lisa Gotthard)

I have taught on this course since its inception in 2016, acting as course organiser in 2018.

LEL2D — Cross-linguistic variation – limits and theories

Wed, 24 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I am the main course organiser for LEL2D in Semester 2 of 2025-26 (co-taught with András Bárány and Amalia Skilton)

This course focuses on variation in grammatical systems in the world’s languages and on the limits of that variation. In particular, we will be looking at universals and variation in morphosyntax and phonology, the importance of variation and universals to linguistic analysis and theory, and the ways in which linguistic theory addresses variation and universals.

The course also equips students with knowledge and skills related to the description and theoretical analysis of specific phenomena in a diverse range of languages, including word order, syntactic relations, phonological alternations, and language development.