DIALECT2000
9-16 August 2000
The Queen’s University of Belfast

incorporating

6th International Conference 
on the Languages of Scotland and Ulster (6ICLSU)
 (in collaboration with 
the Forum for Research on the Languages of Scotland and Ulster)

2nd International Conference 
on the Languages of Ireland (2ICLI)
(sequel to the First Conference, University of Ulster, Jordanstown, June 1994)

Organisers: Dr. John M. Kirk and Prof. Dónall Ó Baoill
email: J.M.Kirk@qub.ac.uk and d.obaoill@qub.ac.uk
tel. (+)44 (0)28 9027 3815 and (+4) (0)28 9027 3390
fax. (+)44 (0)28 9031 4615

Postal Address:
DIALECT2000 
School of English 
Queen’s University Belfast 
Belfast, BT7 1NN 
Northern Ireland

Provisional Programme

Wednesday 9 August:			Arrival
Thursday 10-Friday 11 August:	6ICLSU Papers
Saturday 12 August 			Language, Politics and Ethnolinguistics
Sunday 13 August:			Linguistic Cultural Tour of Northern Ireland
Monday 14-Tuesday 15 August	2ICLI Papers
Wednesday 16 August		Depart

6ICLSU Papers: Draft Timetable (version 6: 15 June 2000)

Thursday 10 August 2000

9.30	Opening Speeches

•	Tribute to A.J.Aitken
Isebail Macleod and Marace Dareau

10.15	Tribute to R.J. Gregg
Philip Robinson and Michael Montgomery

10.30	Coffee

11.00	4 Historical Papers
	Kay Muhr (The Queen’s University of Belfast)
	Common Elements in Irish and Scottish Place-Names
	Susanne Kries (University of Potsdam)
	The Linguistic Evidence for Scandinavian-Scottish Cultural Contact in the Middle 
Ages: The Case of Southwest Scotland
	Marace Dareau (DOST, University of Edinburgh)
	Exploring the Scots/Gaelic Interface
	Volker Mohr (University of Heidelberg)
	Scottish Linguistics, 1595-1872: An Annotated Bibliography

13.00	Lunch

14.00	3 Papers on Phonology
	Volker Mohr (University of Heidelberg)
	Verb Morphology, Aitken’s Law and Old Norse: Evidence from Southern Scots
	Caroline Macafee (University of Aberdeen)
	Lowland Sources of Ulster Scots: Gregg and LAS3 Compared
	Kevin McCafferty (University of Tromsø)
	The mither leid: Mrs M.C. Gregg and the shape of Ulster-Scots 

15.30	Tea

16.00	3 Historical Overviews
	Manfred Görlach (University of Cologne)
	Scots: the Outside View?
	Michael Montgomery (University of South Carolina)
	How the Montgomeries Lost the Scots Language
	Karen P. Corrigan (University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne)
	Central Places vs. Enclaves: The Spreead of Northern Dialects of English/Scots and the Survival 
of Irish in County Armagh, N.I. 1600-1900

17.30	Marace Dareau and Isebail MacLeod
	Update on the Scottish Dictionary Projects

18.00	End of Afternoon Session

Evening Reception

Friday, 11 August

9.30	3 Papers on Stylistics
	Derrick McClure (University of Aberdeen)
	Trom-Laighe or Widdreme: Scotticising Sorley MacLean
	Susana Calvo Alvaro (University of Aberdeen)
	20th Century Popular Scottish Theatre and the Scots Language: A Sociolinguistic 
Study
	Walter Morani (Milan)
	Gendering Oor National Language: ‘Queer Scots’ in Contemporary Gay and 
	Lesbian Theatre in Scotland

11.00	Coffee

11.30	3 Papers on Sociolinguistics
	Ronald Macaulay (Pitzer College)
	Age, Gender, and Social Class Differences in Glasgow Discourse
	Danielle Löw (University of Heidelberg)
	Language Attitudes and Language Use in Pitmedden
	Mari Imamura (University of Aberdeen)
	Methodological Deliberations on Investigating Teachers’ Metalinguistic Awareness and the 
Preservation of Scots Dialects

13.00	Lunch

14.00	Gaelic
	Morag MacNeil (Sabal Mor Ostaig)
	Deconstructing and Reconstructing: Gaelic Identities in Shift 

14.30	Shetland
	Walter Morani (Milan)
	Scots and Shetlandic in the Poetry of Christine De Luca
	Doreen Waugh (University of Glasgow)
	Conscious Archaisms in Shetland Dialect

15.30	Tea

16.00	Song
	Sheila Douglas (Perth)
	The Scots Language and the Song Tradition
	Steve Sweeney-Turner (University of the Highlands and Islands)
	The Political Parlour: Identity and Ideology in Scottish National Song

17.00 	Plenary
	Manfred Görlach (University of Cologne)
	What is Ulster Scots?

18.30	University Reception

19.30	Dinner

20.30	Evening Session: 
	Sheila Douglas, Brian Mullen, Len Graham, John Campbell
	Child Ballads and Ireland

Dialect 2000: Language Links
Language, Politics and Ethnolinguistics
Saturday 12 August 2000, Queen’s University Belfast

This day-long Symposium will be concerned with language and politics with particular emphasis on ethnolinguistics within a political accommodation of equality. We see this as an opportunity to focus on the growing politicisation of linguistic rights in both Ireland and Scotland and the response by the various national and devolved governments. As the Belfast Good Friday Agreement contains a very strong bill of human rights, we consider it important to consider all minority groups seeking political redress and who feel subject to discrimination on grounds of language. We think in particular of the travelling community, the deaf communities who use Irish Sign Language as well as British Sign Language, and more generally of gender and sexual identity. Our hope is that the debate, which tends to focus on Irish Gaelic and Ulster Scots in the North and on Scottish Gaelic and Scots in Scotland, might benefit from its contextualisation within a wider framework of linguistic diversity and political recognition and accommodation, as, indeed, the Good Friday Agreement seeks to do.

	The Symposium will be structured into four sessions:

•	The Symposium will open by several presentations dealing with institutional and political arrangements dealing with these issues in place in Northern Ireland before and leading up to the Good Friday Agreement. So far, we have received commitments from Dónall O Riagáin (General Secretary, European Bureau for Lesser-Used Languages) and Mari FitzDuff (Director, INCORE, University of Ulster, and former Chief executive, NI Community Relations Council). Further invitations are still being considered.

•	The second session will be devoted to statements by constituent spokespersons and activists seeking to show that there has been real or perceived discrimination of a kind that can be attributed to language of one sort or another, and with reference to the Good Friday Agreement appealing to the new devolved government for assistance and support. So far we have received commitments from the non-indigenous language communities, the deaf community, the women’s community, and the gay community. Invitations to the Irish Gaelic community, the Ulster Scots community, and the Travellers community are still being considered.

•	The third session will be devoted to statements and responses by Ministers of devolved government about the way forward and the better future for all of us. So far, Sean Farran, Minister for Higher Education, has committed himself to speaking, and Dermot Nesbitt, Junior Minister in the Office of First and Deputy First Minister, and Michael McGimpsey, Minister for Culture, arts and Leisure, are reconsidering the invitations now that they have resumed their roles. In addition, we hope to have a spokesperson from the new NI Human Rights Commission and from the two new language agencies forming the North-South Implementation Body on Language.

•	The final session will be devoted to discussion between all speakers, participants, and any other invited guests.

2ICLI Papers (Draft 6: 15 June 2000)

Monday 14 August 2000

9.00-10.30	Plenary
	Markku Filppula (University of Joensuu)
	Irish Influence in Hiberno-English: Some Problems of Argumentation	

10.30	Coffee

11.00-13.00	5 Papers on Contact and Syntax
	Karen P. Corrigan (University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne)
	Languages in Contact: Some Solutions for Northern Hiberno-English?
	Kevin McCafferty (University of Tromsø)
	Is it already dropping the future and now forgetting the recent past we'll be after? Change in the 
Irish English be after V-ing construction	
	Terence Odlin (Ohio State University)
	Substrate Influence and Linguistic Identity: The Cases of Ebonics and Anglo-Irish 
	Patricia Ronan (University of Marburg)
	On the Progressive in Hiberno-English 

13.00	Lunch

14.00	5 Papers on Irish Syntax, Phonology, and Proverbs
	Aidan Doyle (University of Gdansk)
	Complex Predicates in Irish and English
	Peter McQuillan (University of Notre Dame)
	Language, Culture and History: the Case of Ir. duchas 
	Natalia A. Nikolaeva (Lomonossov Moscow State University)
	On the Phonology of the O.Ir. Names Amlaib, Ímar, Tomrair
	Brian O Curnain (Institute of Advanced Studies, Dublin)
	The New Ir. 3rd pers. pl. form <adar>
	Fionnuala Carson Williams  (The Queen’s University of Belfast)
	Quotation Proverbs in Ireland

16.30	Tea

17.00	
	Michael Montgomery (University of South Carolina)
	Early Modern English in Ulster 
	Alison Henry (University of Ulster at Jordanstown)
	Expletives and agreement in Belfast English

18.00	 End of afternoon session

Evening Reception

Tuesday 15 August 2000

9.00	Special Session on Travellers Language
	Mary Burke (The Queen’s University of Belfast)
	Simply bad English with some bad Irish thrown in: The Ambiguous Status of Shelta in Ireland
	Mícheál Ó hAodha (University of Limerick)
	The acquisition of Cant “slang” by teenagers in Galway city
	Martin McDonough
	tba
	Sally Flynn
	tba
	Sinead Ni Shuinear
	A History of Academic Treatment of Traveller Language
	Sheila Douglas
Travellers Cant in Scotland

13.00 Lunch

14.00	Special Session on Language, Politics and Education
	Liam Andrews (Belfast)
	The Politics of the Irish-language Movement in Northern Ireland: the 1920s and the 1930s
	Aodán Mac Póilin (Ultach Trust, Belfast)
	Shotgun Marriages: Cross-border (Irish/Ulster-Scots) Language Body
	Simone Zwickl (University of Heidelberg)
	Language Attitudes towards the Irish Language and towards Dialect across the 	Northern Irish/Irish Border
	Brian Lambkin (Centre for Migration Studies, Ulster-American Folk Park)
	Migration, Education for Linguistic Diversity and the Introduction of 	Citizenship Education to 
Schools in Northern Ireland
	Fionnuala Carson Williams (The Queen’s University of Belfast)
	Terms, Phrases, the Local Press and the Northern Ireland Conflict
	Malcolm Scott (Ultach Trust, Belfast)
	The Bishop, the Highlanders and the Fanatick’s’: William King, DD, and Immigration from 
Argyll and the Isles 
	Eugene McKendry (The Queen’s University of Belfast)
	Modern Languages Education Policies in Ireland and Britain
	Alison Henry and Cathy Finlay (University of Ulster 
	Linguistic Discrimination: Local Language Varieties, Education and 	Employment in Northern 
Ireland   

18.30	End of Afternoon Session

Evening Reception

Wednesday 16 August

9.00-10.30	Plenary
	Raymond Hickey (University of Essen)
	Ireland as a Linguistic Area 
10.30 	Simone Zwickl (University of Heidelberg)
	Dialect Use in Armagh and Monaghan: Linguistic and Extralinguistic Factors

11.00	Coffee

11.30	3 Papers on Phonology
	Geoff Lindsey and John Harris (University College London)
	Irish English Dentals: Phonetic Exponence versus Enhancement 
	Dónall Ó Baoill (The Queen’s University of Belfast)
	ng-deletion: an Ulster-Irish Feature?
	Kevin McCafferty (University of Tromsø)
	(London)Derry English: the last word

13.00	Lunch

14.00	Ireland
	Jeffrey A. Kallen (TCD) and John M. Kirk (QUB)
	ICE Ireland: A First Report
	Goodith White (University of Leeds)
	The Names of Irish English

15.00	Final Meeting

15.15	Departure