Patrick Honeybone

BIO

Patrick Honeybone is Professor of Historical Phonology in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at the University of Edinburgh. He teaches and researches around three main areas: historical phonology, phonological theory, phonological variation and dialectology, with a focus on the dialects of English from the North of England and Scots. He has worked on a wide range of topics that comrpise the causes of phonological change, Liverpool English, the phonological interpretation of dialect literature and the history of phonology. His publications include the Handbook of Historical Phonology (co-edited with Joe Salmons for Oxford UP, 2015) and Dialect Writing and the North of England (co-edited with Warren Maguire for Edinburgh UP, 2020). Prof. Honeybone has been editor of the journal English Language and Linguistics, and is the lead editor for Papers in Historical Phonology since 2016. He is also co-editor, with Jacques Durand, of OUP's book series The Phonology of World's Languages (since 2016), and, with Bettelou Los and Graeme Troussale, of EUP's book series Edinburgh Studies in Historical Linguistics since 2019. From 2003-2010, he was one of the editors, with Joan Beal and April McMahon, of the Dialects of English book series.

Further information:

http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/homes/patrick/