Richard Milne Hogg, FBA, FRSE was a Scottish linguist who was well known for his research on Old English, phonology, and English dialects. He received his Ph.D. from Edinburgh University in 1975 presenting the thesis Determiner and quantifier systems in contemporary English under the supervision of Angus McIntosh and John Anderson. He was initially a lecturer in English at the University of Amsterdam from 1969 to 1973, then taught at the University of Lancaster; from 1980 until his death in 2007 he was Smith Professor of English Language and Medieval Literature at the University of Manchester. He served as dean of the arts faculty at Manchester from 1990 to 1993.
- Occupation
- linguist, scholar of English
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Born
- May 20, 1944
