16.3350, Confs: Socioling/Perth, Scotland, UK

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Subject: 16.3350, Confs: Socioling/Perth, Scotland, UK

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Date: 15-Nov-2005
From: Robert Millar < r.millar at abdn.ac.uk >
Subject: One Language or Two? 

	
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Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 13:36:36
From: Robert Millar < r.millar at abdn.ac.uk >
Subject: One Language or Two? 
 

One Language or Two? 

Date: 03-Dec-2005 - 03-Dec-2005 
Location: Perth, Scotland, United Kingdom 
Contact: Derrick McClure 
Contact Email: j.d.mcclure at abdn.ac.uk  

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics 

Subject Language(s): Gaelic, Scottish (gla)
                     Scots (sco)
                     Gaelic, Irish (gle)

Meeting Description: 

ONE LANGUAGE OR TWO?
A one-day conference in the A.K. Bell Memorial Library, Perth, 
on Saturday 3 December 2005 

10.00.	Imagining a Language, Imagining a Grammar: Social Constructs and 
Language Distinctiveness					Robert Millar

10.40.	Scots and English: one grammar or two?			John M. Kirk

11.20.	Coffee.

11.40.	How many languages is Scots?				Derrick McClure

12.20.	Annual General Meeting of the Forum for Research in the Languages of
Scotland and Ulster.
Agenda.
1.  Chairman's Report
2.  Treasurer's Report
3.  Eighth International Conference on the Languages of Scotland and Ulster,
Islay 2006: report on plans
4.  AOB.

1.30.	Lunch.

2.30.	Public Policy and Scots in Northern Ireland 			Gavin Falconer

3.10.	[On Gaelic: title TBA]			
	Roibeard Ó Maolalaigh

3.50.	Coffee.

4.10.	General discussion.

5.00.	Close of conference.

The conference fee of £30 (£25 unwaged) will include morning and afternoon
coffee, and will entitle the participant to a year's membership of the Forum.





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