28.1431, FYI: New Publication: Languages of Scotland and Ulster

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Subject: 28.1431, FYI: New Publication: Languages of Scotland and Ulster

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Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2017 14:48:14
From: Robert McColl Millar [r.millar at abdn.ac.uk]
Subject: New Publication: Languages of Scotland and Ulster

 The fifth volume of the rigorously peer-reviewed, free to view Publications of
the Forum for Research on the Languages of Scotland and Ulster is now
available.

Before the Storm: Papers from the Forum for Research on the Languages of
Scotland and Ulster triennial meeting, Ayr 2015. 

URL: https://www.abdn.ac.uk/pfrlsu/volumes/vol5-before-the-storm/

Table of contents:

- The emergence of Scots: Clues from Germanic *a reflexes
Rhona Alcorn, Benjamin Molineaux, Joanna Kopaczyk, Vasilis Karaiskos, Bettelou
Los and Warren Maguire  

- Scots in the Census: validity and reliability 
Caroline Macafee     

- The Field-Names of Cnoc a’ Mhadain / Sliddery Muir
Ken MacKinnon      

- William Shaw, Controversial Gaelic Lexicographer
Iseabail Macleod
     
- 23 Months, 4 Coordinators, 1 Aim: a discussion on attempts to develop the
place of Scots Language in education across Scotland
Bruce Eunson      

- The be-perfect in transitive constructions in Orkney and Shetland Scots:
Influenced by Norn or not?
Ragnhild Ljosland     

- ’Tis (almost) three centuries since. Linguistic explorations in The Lyon in
Mourning
Marina Dossena      

- William Simpson’s Account of the Ayrshire Dialect
J. Derrick McClure     

- Epenthesis in liquid+consonant clusters in Scots
Warren Maguire      

- Dialectal diversity in contemporary Gaelic: perceptions, discourses and
responses
Wilson McLeod      

- The Language of Lord Fife in Letters to George Grenville 1763 to 1769
Janet Cruickshank
 
Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics



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