Linguistics and English Language at Edinburgh is the pre-eminent department for the study of both Linguistics and English Language in the UK, having ranked top in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise. We have an outstanding international reputation in many areas of Linguistics and English Language research. We can offer expert supervision across a wide range of topics, including: developmental linguistics, including first and second language acquisition; discourse Analysis; historical English Linguistics, including the syntax, morphology, and phonology from the earliest periods to the present day; language evolution; linguistic fieldwork; morphology, including word formation; phonetics and phonology, including diachronic phonology and the phonology of varieties of English and their history; Scots; sociolinguistics; speech technology; syntax and semantics, including theoretical syntax, descriptive syntax of English, diachronic syntax and both lexical and formal semantics; various theoretical approaches to the study of language.