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Home / Publications / Periodicals / Scottish Language

Scottish Language

Edited by: Robert McColl Millar (University of Aberdeen)

ISSN 0264-0198 
1 issue per year

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ASL members receive Scottish Language as part of their membership package.


Every year, Scottish Language publishes the best, latest research on Scotland’s languages and linguistics. From place-name study to medieval poetry to language in the modern media, Scottish Language is the foremost publication in this field.

Papers published in Scottish Language are abstracted and indexed in Academic Search Premier.


Editorial Board:

  • John Corbett
  • Wilhelm F.H. Nicolaisen 
  • Colm Ó Baoill
  • Doreen Waugh

Articles and correspondence should be sent to:
Robert McColl Millar
School of Language & Literature 
University of Aberdeen 
Aberdeen AB24 3UB, UK

Click here for detailed author guidelines. 


Articles published in Scottish Language:

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

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