Jeremy J. Smith

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Jeremy J. Smith is a British philologist who is Professor of English Philology at the University of Glasgow.

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Biography

Jeremy J. Smith has served as Professor of English Philology at the University of Glasgow since 2000. [1] He is also a Visiting Professor at the University of Stavanger. Smith specialises in English historical linguistics, in the history of Scots, and in the textual cultures of Britain and Ireland. He has published a number of books and articles, and teaches a range of courses, in these areas, in which he is internationally renowned. [2]

Smith is a founding member of the Medieval Manuscripts Research Consortium, a member of the Board of Trustees of Scottish Language Dictionaries Ltd and the Council of the Scottish Text Society, a Fellow of the English Association, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, [3] and an Honorary Fellow of the Association for Scottish Literary Studies. He is currently President of the International Society for the Linguistics of English. [4]

Selected bibliography

Notes and references

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  1. "Professor Jeremy Smith". University of Glasgow. Archived from the original on 30 August 2019. Retrieved 30 August 2019.
  2. 1 2 3 "Jeremy Smith". Scottish Language Dictionaries . Retrieved 1 September 2019.
  3. "Professor Jeremy John Smith FRSE". Royal Society of Edinburgh . Retrieved 1 September 2019.
  4. "ISLE Committees". International Society for the Linguistics of English . Retrieved 1 September 2019.

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