Classics and English Language

About this course

Classics and English language is a combination that brings together the ancient foundations of Western textual culture and the scientific study of the English language as it exists and functions today. Classical study gives you access to Greek and Latin texts that have shaped literature, philosophy, law, and rhetoric across two millennia, while English language as an academic discipline examines language not through literary criticism but through the tools of linguistics: how English is structured grammatically, how it varies socially and regionally, how it has changed over time, and how it is acquired and used in real contexts. At the University of Edinburgh, this four-year full-time programme develops your skills in ancient Greek or Latin, or both, alongside a rigorous linguistic study of English that includes phonology, grammar, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, and the history o

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