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Transactions of the Philological Society

Published on behalf of the Philological Society

Edited by:
Andrew Linn and Paul Rowlett

Transactions of the Philological Society continues the earlier Proceedings (1852-53), and is the oldest scholarly periodical devoted to the general study of language and languages that has an unbroken tradition. Transactions reflects a wide range of linguistic interest and contains articles on a diversity of topics: among those published in recent years have been papers on phonology, Romance linguistics, generative grammar, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, Indo-European philology and the history of English.

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Online content now available back to Volume 1 (1854)
All back issues of this journal are available online.  Click here to browse contents and abstracts.  For further information on how to access these articles please visit our Librarian Site.

Fifth RH Robins Prize of the Philological Society
The fifth RH Robins Prize is awarded for an article written by a student associate member on a topic within the Society's interests. In a departure from previous Prizes, the Society will award the £500 first prize together with a £250 second prize. For further details Click here.

11 May 2007 - PhilSoc announces winner of the fourth R.H Robins Prize
At the PhilSoc AGM held on 11 May 2007, it was announced that Louise Mycock (Manchester) was the winner of the fourth RH Robins Prize for her essay entitled "Constituent question formation and focus: A new typological perspective".  The essay has been published in Transactions issue 105.2.

 

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Recent Articles

Recent and Forthcoming Special Issues

  • 2008 Impersonal constructions, ed. A. Siewierska
  • 2007 Cyclic spec--head relations, ed. P. Rowlett
  • 2006 Germanic philology, ed. M. Durrell
  • 2005 Quantitative methods in language comparison, ed. A. McMahon

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