He received his Ph.D. from Edinburgh University in 1975 presenting the thesis Determiner and quantifier systems in contemporary English[2] under the supervision of Angus McIntosh and John Anderson.
[3] Hogg was the General Editor of The Cambridge History of the English Language (six volumes, published between 1992 and 2001).
[4] His Grammar of Old English, 2, Morphology, was completed after his death by Rob Fulk and published in 2011.
A collection of essays in Hogg's honour, Analysing Older English, was published in 2012.
[5] In 2008, a fellowship for young scholars was set up in his name, sponsored by the International Society for the Linguistics of English.