What do we need to consider in order to understand the innovation and propagation of phonological change, and to reconstruct past phonological states? The Seventh Edinburgh Symposium on Historical Phonology will offer an opportunity to discuss fundamental questions in historical phonology as well as specific analyses of historical data.
The symposium is organised under the auspices of the Angus McIntosh Centre for Historical Linguistics and is hosted by the Department of Linguistics and English Language and the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh.
The conference will run on the 1st and 2nd of December 2025, in-person in Edinburgh.
Practical information
The conference dates are 1st and 2nd December 2025. As in (most) previous years, the conference will take place in the Informatics Forum and the Dugald Stewart Building, both part of the university’s central area.
Call for papers
Coming soon!
Organisers
Organising committee
The conference email address is eshp-org@mlist.is.ed.ac.uk.
Committee:
- Aldo Berríos Castillo
- Julian Bradfield
- Ziche Chen
- Patrick Honeybone
- Fae Hicks
- Pavel Iosad
- Brandon Kieffer
- Jakub Musil
- Pia Lehecka
- Benjamin Molineaux
- Richard West-Soley
Advisory board
- Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero (University of Manchester)
- Fernando O. de Carvalho (Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)
- András Cser (Pázmány Péter Catholic University & The Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics)
- Silke Hamann (University of Amsterdam)
- Nathan Hill (Trinity College Dublin)
- Adèle Jatteau (Université de Lille)
- Darya Kavitskaya (University of California Berkeley)
- James Kirby (LMU Munich)
- Björn Köhnlein (Ohio State University)
- Donka Minkova (University of California Los Angeles)
- Nikolaus Ritt (University of Vienna)
- Michela Russo (Université Lyon III — Jean Moulin / SFL CNRS–Université Paris 8)
- Joseph C. Salmons (University of Wisconsin — Madison)
- Jade J. Sandstedt (Volda University College)
- Tobias Scheer (University of Nice)
- Ranjan Sen (University of Sheffield)
- Patrycja Strycharczuk (University of Manchester)
- Meredith Tamminga (University of Pennsylvania)
- Danielle Turton (Lancaster University)
- Anthony Yates (University of California Los Angeles)