Edited by: Robert McColl Millar (University of Aberdeen)
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Articles published in Scottish Language:
Volume 42 (2023)
Caledonia and the language of the Picts
Bernard Mees
Vernacular dialectal environment of Multiple Modals in Lowland Scotland: theory and pragmatics of Double and Triple Modals in Hawick
Anthony R. Bour
Still Speaking Properly? A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Scots Language in Curriculum for Excellence (2017) Educational Scotland Report
Karen A. Lowing
Addendum: Is (Older) Scots an Anglic Variety?
Charles-Henri Discry
Volume 41 (2022)
Is (Older) Scots an Anglic variety?
Charles-Henri Discry
Knappin: speech modification in Shetland
Kerry Karam
Perceptions of Gaelic: native versus non-native speakers
Ciorstan Towers
Volume 40 (2021)
Layers and operators in Scottish Gaelic
Avelino Corral Esteban
What’s in a name? The prevalence of the ‘Doric’ label in the north-east of Scotland
Dawn Leslie
Opinion piece: Towards more comprehensive lexical research on Scots
Robert McColl Millar
Volume 39 (2020)
Towards a digital lexical atlas of Scotland
John Kirk and Christian Hessle
At the Back o’ Benachie: a social and linguistic treasure-trove
J. Derrick McClure
Vernacular modality in Hawick Scots: a morphosyntactic approach of single and multiple modals
Anthony R. Bour
Reformation controversy and the practice of historical lexicography
Alasdair A. MacDonald
Volume 38 (2019)
Gypsies, pedlars, beggars and other itinerants in the Scots dictionary record
Caroline Macafee
Linguistic analysis of a late sixteenth-century manuscript in Scots
Maddi Morcillo Berrueta
National identity and lexis: origins of the terms plaid and tartan
William Sayers
Volume 37 (2018)
Sorley MacLean and Douglas Young: Poetry and Translations
Emma Dymock
Poetry in Scots Since the Twentieth-Century Renaissance
J. Derrick McClure
Drama in Scots Since the Twentieth-Century Renaissance
John Corbett
Distinguishing Features of Iain Crichton Smith’s Gaelic Writing
Moray Watson
Forgetting Donald Sinclair 1995–1932: the Passage Between Celtic Revival and Scottish Renaissance
Aonghas Mac Leòid
Derick Thomson: Poet and Scholar
Ian MacDonald
Volume 36 (2017)
The Scots Language and its Cultural and Social Capital in Scottish Schools: a Case Study of Scots in Scottish Secondary Classrooms
Karen Lowing
Negated and Inverted Syntax of Modal Combinations in the Scottish Borders: Traditional Double Modals, Hybrid Double Modals and Exotic Triple Modals
Anthony R. Bour
English as an Additional Language (EAL) Service in Aberdeen: a case study
Maleeha Ather Rasheed
Volume 35 (2016)
The Other ‘Junius’ in Oxford, Bodleian Library Ms Junius 74: Francis Junius and a Scots Glossary by Patrick Young
Kees Dekker
Two Scottish etymologies for English words
William Sayers
Gif youre grace will command me with ony service ye sall fynd me obedient: on the use of will and shall in Older Scots if-clauses
Christine Elsweiler
The etymology of Scots gyte ‘mad, out of one’s senses’
William Sayers
Written like a ‘gwd’ Scotswoman: Margaret Tudor’s use of Scots
Graham Williams
Volume 34 (2015)
Pulmonic ingressive speech in Orkney dialect
Peter Sundkvist and Man Gao
Exotic multiple modals: semantic and morphosyntactic survey
Anthony R. Bour
Towards a holistic national language policy for Scotland
Mark McConville
Orkney English phonology: observations from interview data
Holger Schmitt
Review: Language in Scotland: Corpus-based Studies, Wendy Anderson (ed.)
Maggie Scott
Review: The Legal Language of Scottish Burghs: Standardization and Lexical Bundles 1380–1560, by Joanna Kopaczyk
J. Derrick McClure
Volume 33 (2014)
Scottish Languages on Stage
Ian Brown and Chris Robinson
Three Centuries of Gaelic Language Manipulation on Stage
Michelle Macleod
Shakespeare’s Scottish Play in Scottish Gaelic
Sìm Innes
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Code-switching and Hybridisation in Kevin MacNeil’s The Callanish Stoned
Emma Dymock
Scots Language in Theory and Practice in Graham Moffat’s Playwriting
Ian Brown
Doric Drama: the First Thirty Years, 1894–1924
Derrick McClure
Volume 31/32 (2012/13)
Gaelic-English bilingual children’s aspectual awareness: grammaticality judgements of English stative-progressives
Elina Hällström
‘I’ll cross dat brig whin I come til him’: grammatical gender in the Orkney and Shetland dialects of Scots
Ragnhild Ljosland
Brose, Atholl Brose, Spurtle and Thivel
William Sayers
The Thistle and the Words: Scotland in Late Modern English lexicography
Marina Dossena
An examination of the use of language in three intercultural team projects in a Scottish university
Liz Macdougall
The emergence of Scottish Standard English and the role of Second Earl Fife
Janet Cruickshank
Insular languages, global ideologies: the ideologies of a British, Scottish, Northern Island community
Alexander Thomson
Review: The Edinburgh Companion to the Gaelic Language, Moray Watson and Michelle MacLeod (eds)
William Gillies
Review: TA Guide to Scots Bird Names, second edition, by Robin Jackson
Robert McColl Millar
Volume 30 (2011)
Latin and Scots versions of medieval burgh laws (Leges Quator Burgorum)
Joanna Kopaczyk
Scots and English in Hamilton’s Catechism
Alasdair A. MacDonald
Terms for fish in the dialects of Scotland’s east coast fishing communities: evidence for lexical attrition
Robert McColl Millar, William Barras and Lisa Bonnici
Review: Jeremy L. Smith, Older Scots: A Linguistic Reader
J. Derrick McClure
Review: Anita Nihtinen, Ambivalent Self-Understanding? Change, Language and Boundaries in the Shetland Islands (1970–Present)
Kerry Karam
Review: Iseabail Macleod and J. Derrick McClure, Scotland in Definition: A History of Scottish Dictionaries
Robert McColl Millar
Review: Susan Rennie, Jamieson’s Dictionary of Scots: The Story of the First Historical Dictionary of the Scots Language
Robert McColl Millar
Volume 29 (2010)
Notes on some cruces in Middle Scots poetry: Henryson’s Bawdronis, Dart Oxin and Bacis, Dunbar’s Strenever and Wallidrag, Gavin Douglas’s Lundeys Lufe, Threte and Treilȝeis
Andrew Breeze
The death of Orkney Norn and the genesis of Orkney Scots
Robert McColl Millar
‘This unique dialect’: the profile of Shetland dialect in a typology of World Englishes
Gunnel Melchers
Dialect in the modern languages classroom: a bidialectal approach
Shane Strachan
A Scottish trace in Russian toponymy: two Russian place-names revisited
Alexander Pavlenko
Pernickety
William Sayers
Review: Keith Hamnett, The Plight of Three Celtic Languages – Welsh, Irish and Gaelic
Michelle MacLeod
Review: A and A Christie-Johnston, Shetland Words: A Dictionary of the Shetland Dialect
Doreen Waugh
Volume 28 (2009)
Language history as charter myth? Scots and the (re)invention of Scotland
James Costa
Notes on some Scottish words and phrases: Mugdock, ploddeil, hallock, ‘dery dan’, ‘carlingis pet’
Andrew Breeze
A study of attitudes of Scottish Secondary pupils and teachers towards Scots lexical and grammatical terms
Wojciech Gardela
Insular Scots front vowels in Westray, Orkney
Meredith Tamminga
A comparison of the language situations of Bavarian and Scots
Barbara Loester
Review: Evan Gottlieb and Ian Duncan (eds), Approaches to Teaching Scott’s Waverley Novels
John Corbett
Review: Fiona Douglas, Scottish Newspapers, Language and Identity
Stuart Kelly
Review: Markku Filppula, Juhani Klemola and Heli Paulasto, English and Celtic in Contact
Andrew Breeze
Review: Simon Taylor (ed), The Journal of Scottish Name Studies vol 3, 2009
Alison Grant
Volume 27 (2008)
‘Many strange and peculiar affairs’: Description, Narration and Evaluation in Scottish Emigrants’ Letters of the 19th Century
Marina Dossena
The Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech – A User’s Guide
Wendy Anderson and John Corbett
Some Gaelic Etymologies for Scots Words: Drubly, Blad, Gilravage and Gaberlunzie
Andrew Breeze
The Gaelic of Stirlingshire
Seumas Grannd
Telleyr, Anguen, Gulath, and the Life of St Kentigern
Andrew Breeze
The ongoing influence of Lowland Scots, Irish and Ulster English on the developing varieties of Ulster Scots
James Hale
Review: Susanne Kries, ed., Skandinavisch-schottische Sprachbeziehungen im Mittelalter. Der altnordische Lehneinfluss
Göran Wolf
Review: Alasdair MacCallum, Reversing Language Shift: the Social Identity and Role of Scottish Gaelic Learners
Kenneth MacKinnon
Review: William Lamb, Scottish Gaelic Speech and Writing: Register variation in an endangered language
Siobnán Ní Laoire
Volume 26 (2007)
Place-names and the Scots Language: The Marches of Lexical and Onomastic Research
Maggie Scott
The Etymology and Meanings of Eldritch
Alaric Hall
A Gaelic Etymology for Dyvour ‘Debtor’ (a note)
Andrew Breeze
One More East Slavic Parallel for the Language Situation in the Lowlands
Alexander Pavlenko
Public Policy and Scots in Northern Ireland
Gavin Falconer
Migration, Family and Education in Gaelic Policy Perspective
Kenneth MacKinnon
Measuring Gaelic Language Planning
Michelle MacLeod
Some Scottish Names, including Vacomagi, Boresti, Iudanbyrig, Aberlessic and Dubuice
Andrew Breeze
Review: Robert McColl Millar, Dialects of English: Northern and Insular Scots
Doreen Waugh
Review: Wilson McLeod, James E. Fraser and Anja Gunderloch (eds.), Cànan & Cultar / Language & Culture: Rannsachadh na Gàidhlig 3
Colm Ó Baoill
Review: Wilson McLeod (ed.), Revitalising Gaelic in Scotland – Policy, Planning and Public Discourse
Michel Byrne
Volume 25 (2006)
The Ausbau of Present-Day Scots
Holger Schmitt
Anglo-English Influences on Scottish Standard English Speakers: Trap/Bath/Palm/Start and Lot/Cloth/Thought/North/ Force
P. Carr and I. Brulard
Smoking, Drinking, Dancing and Singing on the High Seas: Steamships and the uses of Smùid in Scottish Gaelic
Donald E. Meek
Three Celtic Names: Venicones, Tuesis and Soutra
Andrew Breeze
Review Article: Caroline Macafee (ed.), A. Jack Aitken, Older Scottish Vowels
Paul A. Johnston, Jr.
Review: Iseabail Macleod and Pauline Cairns (eds.), The Essential Scots Dictionary: Scots-English–English-Scots
Marina Dossena
Review: Christian J. Kay and Margaret A. Mackay (eds.), Perspectives on the Older Scottish Tongue
Yuko Yoneyama
Review: Danielle A.V. Löw-Wiebach, Language Attitudes and Language Use in Pitmedden (Aberdeenshire)
Robert Millar
Review: Piotr Stalmaszczyk, Celtic Presence: Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Cornish
Niall O’Gallagher
Volume 24 (2005)
Onomasiological Variation and Change in the Older Scots Vocabulary of Marriage
Javier E. Díaz Vera
Sched Apon the Rude? Reflections on Scots and Religion
Gavin Falconer
The Distinctiveness of the Doric: Home-Grown or Imported?
Marjorie Lorvik
Ptolemy’s Taexali, Caelis, Loxa and Eitis
Javier E. Díaz Vera
Review: Bill Findlay (ed.), Frae Ither Tongues: Essays on Modern Translations into Scots
Tom Hubbard
Review: Klaske van Leyden, Prosodic Characteristics of Orkney and Shetland Dialects: An Experimental Approach
Dominic Watt
Review: Garret Fitzgerald, Irish-Speaking in the Pre-Famine Period: a study based on the 1911 census data for people born before 1851 and still alive in 1911
Kenneth MacKinnon
Review: Royal Irish Academy, Corpas Na Gaeilge 1600–1882: Foclóir na Nua-Ghaeilge: The Irish Language Corpus
Colm Ó Baoill
Volume 23 (2004)
‘The Auld Warld is By Wi’: W.L. Lorimer’s The New Testament in Scots
George Bruce
Middle Scots as an Emerging Standard and Why It Did Not Make It
Joanna Bugaj
The Genitive in Ane Resonyng of Ane Scottis and Inglis Merchand betuix Rowand and Lionis
Nieves Rodríguez Ledesma
Some Celtic Place-Names of Scotland: Ptolemy’s Verubium Promontorium, Bede’s Urbs Giudi, Mendick, Minto and Panlathy
Andrew Breeze
The Challenge of Corpus Planning in Gaelic Development
Wilson McLeod
A Wee Keek at Scottish Rhyming Slang
Antonio Lillo
A Gaelic Etymology for Camstairy in Guy Mannering
Andrew Breeze
Review: John M. Kirk and Dónall P. Ó Baoill (eds.), Language Planning and Education: Linguistic Issues in Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, and Scotland
Barbara Bird
Review: John M. Kirk and Dónall P. Ó Baoill (eds.), Towards our Goals in Broadcasting, the Press, the Performing Arts and the Economy: Minority Languages in Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, and Scotland
J.M.Y. Simpson
Volume 22 (2003)
(Volume 22 of Scottish Language is a selection of papers presented at the Tenth International Conference on Scottish Language and Literature of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, Rolduc 13-19 July 2002)
‘Mony notabill narratioun’: Scots Language Research, a Resource for the Study of Folklore, Literature and History
Margaret A. MacKay
Latin and French in Gilbert Hay’s Prose Works
Jonathan A. Glenn
Early Scottish Internationalism through Translation
Tom Hubbard
Middle Scots Prosody: Theory or Pragmatism?
J. Derrick McClure
Counsel in The Wallace: Pragmatic Observations on Advice in a Fifteenth-Century Scottish Poem
Inge B. Milfull
Review: Annette I. Hagan, Urban Scots Dialect Writing
J. Derrick McClure
Review: Richard A. V. Cox, The Gaelic Place-Names of Carloway, Isle of Lewis: Their Structure and Significance
Anke-Beate Stahl
Review: CELTICA, volume XXIV: In Memory of Brian Ó Cuív, ed. Malachy McKenna and Fergus Kelly
Colm Ó Baoill
Volume 21 (2002)
The Role of Scots Lexis in Scottish Newspapers
Fiona M. Douglas
Some Common and Distinctive Extra-Linguistic Features in the Histories of Scots and Ukrainian
A. Pavlenko
Some Celtic Place-Names of Scotland, including Tain, Cadzow, Cockleroy and Prenderguest
Andrew Breeze
’N Linnet Mór: A Window on Language and Community in 18th Century Easter Ross
Seosamh Watson
Scottish Gaelic Caismeachd, Irish Caismirt, and the Emergence of Cadenced Marching
Niall MacKenzie
Review: Alan MacGillivray (ed.), Teaching Scottish Literature: curriculum and classroom applications
Manfred Görlach
Review: John M. Kirk and Dónall P. Ó Baoill (eds.), Belfast Studies in Language, Culture and Politics
Donald MacAulay
Volume 20 (2001)
Spatio-Temporal Aspects of Older Scots Texts
Keith Williamson
Women as Informants in the Reconstruction of Geographically and Socioculturally Conditioned Language Variation and Change in 16th and 17th Century Scots
Anneli Meurman-Solin
‘For the Aduancement of the Commoun Weilth’: Hypotheses in Scots Scientific Discourse of the 16th and 17th Centuries. A Preliminary Investigation
Marina Dossena
Alliteration in The Wallace
Inge Milfull
The Quha Problem in William Dunbar’s Quha Will Behald of Luve the Chance
Regina Scheibe
Language and Style in The Complaynt of Scotland
Klaus Bitterling
Review: Seumas Grannd, The Gaelic of Islay. A Comparative Study
Cathair Ó Dochartaigh
Volume 19 (2000)
The Demography of Scots: The Lessons of the Census Campaign
Caroline Macafee
Taming Volume III of the Linguistic Atlas of Scotland
Paul Johnston, Jr
The Demonstrative Pronouns in the North-East: An Introductory Discussion
Sandra Mhairi McRae
Some Characteristics of the Shetlandic Vowel System
John M Tait
Official Gaelic: Problems in the Translation of Public Documents
Wilson McLeod
Some Celtic Place-Names of Scotland including Arran, Carmunnock, Gogar and Water of May
Andrew Breeze
Volume 18 (1999)
Scots as a European Language 1500-1700
Dauvit Horsbroch
The Present Participle in Middle Scots
Ute Dons and Lilo Moessner
Some Celtic Place-Names of Scotland
Andrew Breeze
Images of Language in Advertising in Scotland
Roz Smith
Language, Dialect or Accent?
Attila Dósa
The Interface between Haiku and Other Poetry
David Purves
Volume 17 (1998)
(Number 17 of Scottish Language is a selection of papers presented at the Fifth International Conference on the Languages of Scotland and Ulster, Aberdeen 1-5 August 1997)
DOST towards the Millenium
Marace Dareau
Scots Dictionaries Present and Future
Isiabail Macleod
Sir James Wilson and his Commonsense Approach to the Scots Language
Sheila Douglas
Diminutives in Scottish Standard English
Marina Dossena
Settlement Names in the South-West: Dumfries and Galloway
Doreen J. Waugh
Gaelic in Family, Work and Community domains
Kenneth MacKinnon
Tokenism in Gaelic: the Language of Appeasement
Richard A.V. Cox
Verbal Aspect in the Scots and English of Ulster
John M. Kirk and Georgina Millar
The Endurance of Scots in the United States
Anne Marie Hamilton
Some Influences on the Gaelic of Cape Breton
Seamus Grannd
Volume 16 (1997)
The Pioneers of Anglicised Speech in Scotland: a second look
A. J. Aitken
Periphrastic do in The Complyant of Scotland and Ane Resonyng of ane Scottis and Enlish Merchand
M. Nieves Rodriguez Ledesma
Alexander Hume: Of the Orthographie and Conguitie of the Britan Tongue
Veronika Kniezsa
The Duke’s English: The Language of the Hamilton Papers
Hans Peters
Irish References in Early Scottish Gaelic Grammars: A Typological Parallel
Alexander Falileyev
MacDiarmid’s Use of Scots: Synthetic or Natural?
David Purves
The Origin of the Be-Perfect with Transitives in the Shetland Dialect
Alexander Pavlenko
Etymological Notes on Kirkcaldy, Jocteleg ‘Knife’, Kiaugh‘Trouble’, Striffen ‘Membrane’ and Cow ‘Hobgolin’
Andrew Breeze
Volume 14/15 (1995/96)
Shibboleths of the Scots
Colin Milton
In Praise of William J. Watson (1865–1948): Celtic Place-Name Scholar
W.F.H. Nicolaisen
Aoidhmin Mac Gréagóir – A Little-known Gaelic Scholar
Ciarán Ó Duibhinn
Central Western Gaelic Dialect
Anthony Dilworth
The Lexical Geography of the Western Isles
Seumas Grannd
Remarkably Common Eloquence: The Aesthetics of Urban Dialect
Ronald MacAulay
The language of Perthshire Travellers
Sheila Douglas
Gaelic: An Exploration of the Interplay of Sociolinguistic Factors
Morag M. McNeill
Gaelic and ‘The Other Languages’ of Scotland
Kenneth MacKinnon
Ethnic Minority Languages in Scotland
Mahendra K. Verma
Marketing a Second Language: The Case of Scottish Gaelic in Ontario
Kara Smith
Scots: Matters of Identity and Nationalism
Kim J.M.Hardie
The Local Press: What’s in it for You?
Roz Smith
The Development of Eclipsis in Gaelic
Roibeard Maolalaigh
The Phonology of Scottish Gaelic Loanwords in Lowland Scots
Dóra Pödör
Phonetic Descriptions of Scottish Accents: A Historical perspective
Deborah Cherry
Dunbar’s Aureate Language
Robert D. Drexler
Plain Life Depicted in Fiery Shorthand
Karen Corrigan
Gaelic Vernacular Verse from the Parish of Glenmuick, Tulloch and Glengairn
Alison Diack
Advertising Feature: Bridging Scots and Gaelic
George Philp
Volume 13 (1994)
Some Early Scottish Place-Names and Queen Margaret
Simon Taylor
Norse in Scotland
Jeremy J. Smith
Subordinate and-clauses in Scots and Hiberno-English: Origins and Development
Martina Hacker
Middle English tod ‘fox’: Old Irish taid ‘thief’
Andrew Breeze
Parallel Structure in Dunbar’s Surrexit Dominus de Sepulchro
Pamela K. Shaffer
Québécois into Scots: Translating Michel Tremblay
Martin Bowmanand Bill Findlay
A Dictionary Ramble
Roderick MacDonald
On a Standardised Spelling for Scots
Angus Stirling
Review: Margaret Laing and Keith Woodbridge, eds., Speaking in our Tongues: Proceedings of a Colloquium on Medieval Dialectology and Related Disciplines
Graeme D. Caie
Review: Alexander Fenton and Donald A. MacDonald, eds., Studies in Scots and Gaelic
Derick S. Thomson
Review: James Robertson, ed., A Tongue in Yer Heid: A Selection of the Best Contemporary Short Stories in Scots
Kenneth R. Sadler
Volume 11/2 (1992/93)
The Gododdin: The Oldest Scottish Poem?
Craig Cessford
A Short Grammar of Older Scots
C.I. Macafee
Language, Music and Local Aesthetics: Views from Gaeldom and Beyond
John Shaw
Linguistic Awareness and Attitudes in a Sample of Scottish Speakers
Flavia Iacuaniello
Conference of the German Association of University Professors of English in Stuttgart, 1992
Lilo Moessner
Computing and Research on Scots
John M. Kirk
Computers and Scots Lexicography
Iseabail MacLeod
A Computer Aided Method for Making a Linguistic Atlas of Older Scots
Keith Williamson
Computers and Gaelic Language Data
Cathair Ó Dochartaigh
Review: Jamie Stuart, The Glasgow Gospel
Hazel C. Taylor
Review: The Gaelic Terminology Database, Vol.1.
Sonia Vathjunker
Volume 10 (1991)
‘Scotica Pronunciations’: Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century English Authors on Scots.
Veronika Kniezsa
Borrowing between Scots and Gaelic.
Colm Ó Baoill
A Linguistic Survey of the Use and Familiarity of Scottish Dialect Items in N.E. Fife.
Susan M. Lawrie
An Investigation of Attitudes to Scots and Glasgow Dialect among Secondary School Pupils.
Janet Menzies
Review: Studies in the History of the English Language
John Anderson
Review: Derick S. Thomson, ed., Gaelic and Scots in Harmony
Meg Bateman
Review: Kenneth MacKinnon, Gaelic – A Past and Future Prospect
Janet Hunter
Volume 9 (1990)
Language and Style in the Scottish Gaelic Bible (1767–1807).
Donald E. Meek
Robert Burns and Gaelic
Roderick MacDonald
‘Haw, the Wickit Things Weans Dae!’: Max and Moritz in Scots
Manfred Görlach
Foreign Influences in the Vocabulary of William Dunbar.
Stuart Lucas
Review: Iseabail MacLeod, with Pauline Cairns, Caroline Macafee and Ruth Martin (eds.), The Scots Thesaurus
Robert Burchfield
Review: Michael Gregson with Kay Deas, The Crack and the Cant
J. Derrick McClure
Review: Peadar Morgan (trans.) Asterix an Ceilteach
David Clement
Volume 8 (1989)
Gaelic in Glasgow, c. 1723-1981
Charles W.J. Withers
Recent Gaelic Poetry
Iain Crichton Smith
Gaelic Publishing
Derick Thomson
Gaelic education today
Boyd Robertson
Review: Leabhraichean ura cloinne (New children’s books)
Seumas Grannd
Review: Two New Scots Dictionaries
John M. Kirk
A note on: ‘A critical assessment of Tom Scott’s poem “The Seavaiger” as an exercise in poetic translation’
Lilo Moessner
Volume 7 (1988)
Standardisation in Middle Scots.
Alex Agutter
A critical assessment of Tom Scott’s poem The Seavaigeras an exercise in translation
Lilo Moessner
Mutation of s-clusters in Gaelic
Cathair O Dochartaigh
The place-names of Fife
Iain Fraser
Review: Caroline MacAfee and Iseabail MacLeod, eds.: The Nuttis Schell: Essays on the Scots Language presented to A.J. Aitken
Henry Hargreaves
Review: Emma Letley, From Gault to Douglas Brown: Nineteenth-Century Fiction and the Scots Language
Anne King
Volume 6 (1987)
Lexical loss and lexical survival: the case of Scots and English
Manfred Gorlach
Additions, antedatings and corrections to DOST and OED.
Luuk Houwen
Scottish Building Terms.
Glen L. Pride
Scottish Dictionaries in the late 1980s
Iseabail MacLeod
Review : Billy Kay Scots – The Mither Tongue
John M. Kirk
Review: P. Hately Waddell: The Psalms: frae Hebrew intil Scottis
Colin Milton
Review: Alexander Fenton Wirds an’ Wark ’e Seasons Roon
Leslie W. Wheeler
Review: David King Sutherland: Fisherlore of Avoch
J. Derrick McClure
Volume 5 (1986)
Gaelic Literary Interactions with Scots and English Work: A Survey
D.S. Thomson
Links with Gaelic Tradition found in the story traditions of Perthshire Travelling People
S. Douglas
The Literature of ‘Ane Simple Land’.
M.P. McDiarmid
‘Revolution there as visible as anywhere else!’ Some literary uses of Scots in nineteenth-century fiction.
E. Letley
Hugh MacDiarmid and North-East Scots
C. Milton
Gaelic Communities in Lowland Scotland, 1709-1891: Exploration toward a Social History.
C. Withers
The Scottish Gaelic Speech-community: some social perspectives.
K. MacKinnon
What Scots Owes to Gaelic
J.D. McClure
English and Scots Military Loanwords in Scottish Gaelic
I. Quick
Some Scots Words in the Gaelic Vocabulary of Applecross
K. MacDonald
Narrowing and Extension of Meaning in the Scandinavian-based Vocabulary of Shetland Dialect
G. Melchers
New Gaelic?
D. MacAulay
Patterns of English-Gaelic and Gaelic-English Code-switching
D. Cram
Vowel Systems in Hebridean English
C. Shuken
Gaelic Place Names in Scots.
W.F.H. Nicolaisen
The Transition from Gaelic to Scots or Scottish-English in Caithness Place-Names
D. Waugh
Volume 4 (1985)
Old Words in a New Town
Clausdirk Pollner
Englisch in Livingston (by H. Speitel)
Clausdirk Pollner
Some Distinguishing Features of the Gaelic of Islay
Seumas Grannd
Glasgow (by J. Miller)
Caroline Macafee
A Detailed Account of Some Caithness Place-Names
Doreen Waugh
Volume 3 (1984)
Investigations into the Syntax of Hebridean English
Annette Sabban
Is Scottish Gaelic a VSO Language?
David Cram
Galloway Schools Dialect Survey
W.A.D.Riach
William Tennant, the Ettrick Shepherd and the Psalms of David: A Linguistic Controversy
Harry D. Watson
Volume 2 (1983)
Irregular Style Variation Patterns in Edinburgh Speech
Paul Johnston
Sociolinguistic Approaches to Scots Language
Caroline Macafee
Mining Terms in Fife
W.H. McPhee
The Survival of the Fishing Dialects on the Moray Firth
Anne Downie
English was to them a Foreign Tongue
Lilian E.C. MacQueen
Lowland Scots in Education: An Historical Survey (part II)
Keith Williamson
Volume 1 (1982)
Linguistic Taboo in the Speech of Scottish Fishermen
Karl Inge Sandred
Report of Dialect Work in Ulster
G.B. Adams
A Dialect Study of Comparative Areas in Galloway
W.A.D. Riach
Some Connections between Galloway and Ulster Speech
James Milroy
Bad Scots: Some Superstitions about Scots Speech
A.J.Aitken
Glasgow Dialect in Literature
Caroline Macafee
Lowland Scots in Education: An Historical Survey (Part I)
Keith Williamson