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Index of Articles

Vol Date
Article Title Author
1 1982 Linguistic Taboo in the Speech of Scottish Fishermen Karl Inge Sandred
1 1982 Report of Dialect Work in Ulster G.B. Adams
1 1982 A Dialect Study of Comparative Areas in Galloway W.A.D. Riach
1 1982 Some Connections between Galloway and Ulster Speech James Milroy
1 1982 Bad Scots: Some Superstitions about Scots Speech A.J.Aitken
1 1982 Glasgow Dialect in Literature Caroline Macafee
1 1982 Lowland Scots in Education: An Historical Survey (Part I) Keith Williamson
2 1983 Irregular Style Variation Patterns in Edinburgh Speech Paul Johnston
2 1983 Sociolinguistic Approaches to Scots Language Caroline Macafee
2 1983 Mining Terms in Fife W.H. McPhee
2 1983 The Survival of the Fishing Dialects on the Moray Firth Anne Downie
2 1983 English was to them a Foreign Tongue Lilian E.C. MacQueen
2 1983 Lowland Scots in Education: An Historical Survey (part II) Keith Williamson
3 1984 Investigations into the Syntax of Hebridean English Annette Sabban
3 1984 Is Scottish Gaelic a VSO Language? David Cram
3 1984 Galloway Schools Dialect Survey W.A.D.Riach
3 1984 William Tennant, the Ettrick Shepherd and the Psalms of David: A Linguistic Controversy Harry D. Watson
4 1985 Old Words in a New Town Clausdirk Pollner
4 1985 Englisch in Livingston (by H. Speitel) Clausdirk Pollner
4 1985 Some Distinguishing Features of the Gaelic of Islay Seumas Grannd
4 1985 Glasgow (by J. Miller) Caroline Macafee
4 1985 A Detailed Account of Some Caithness Place-Names Doreen Waugh
5 1986 Gaelic Literary Interactions with Scots and English Work: A Survey D.S. Thomson
5 1986 Links with Gaelic Tradition found in the story traditions of Perthshire Travelling People S. Douglas
5 1986 The Literature of ‘Ane Simple Land’. M.P. McDiarmid
5 1986 ‘Revolution there as visible as anywhere else!’ Some literary uses of Scots in nineteenth-century fiction. E. Letley
5 1986 Hugh MacDiarmid and North-East Scots C. Milton
5 1986 Gaelic Communities in Lowland Scotland, 1709-1891: Exploration toward a Social History. C. Withers
5 1986 The Scottish Gaelic Speech-community: some social perspectives. K. MacKinnon
5 1986 What Scots Owes to Gaelic J.D. McClure
5 1986 English and Scots Military Loanwords in Scottish Gaelic I. Quick
5 1986 Some Scots Words in the Gaelic Vocabulary of Applecross K. MacDonald
5 1986 Narrowing and Extension of Meaning in the Scandinavian-based Vocabulary of Shetland Dialect G. Melchers
5 1986 New Gaelic? D. MacAulay
5 1986 Patterns of English-Gaelic and Gaelic-English Code-switching D. Cram
5 1986 Vowel Systems in Hebridean English C. Shuken
5 1986 Gaelic Place Names in Scots. W.F.H. Nicolaisen
5 1986 The Transition from Gaelic to Scots or Scottish-English in Caithness Place-Names D. Waugh
6 1987 Lexical loss and lexical survival: the case of Scots and English Manfred Gorlach
6 1987 Additions, antedatings and corrections to DOST and OED. Luuk Houwen
6 1987 Scottish Building Terms. Glen L. Pride
6 1987 Scottish Dictionaries in the late 1980s Iseabail MacLeod
6 1987 Review : Billy Kay Scots – The Mither Tongue John M. Kirk
6 1987 Review: P. Hately Waddell: The Psalms: frae Hebrew intil Scottis Colin Milton
6 1987 Review: Alexander Fenton Wirds an’ Wark ’e Seasons Roon Leslie W. Wheeler
6 1987 Review: David King Sutherland: Fisherlore of Avoch J. Derrick McClure
7 1988 Standardisation in Middle Scots. Alex Agutter
7 1988 A critical assessment of Tom Scott’s poem The Seavaiger as an exercise in translation Lilo Moessner
7 1988 Mutation of s-clusters in Gaelic Cathair O Dochartaigh
7 1988 The place-names of Fife Iain Fraser
7 1988 Review: Caroline MacAfee and Iseabail MacLeod, eds.: The Nuttis Schell: Essays on the Scots Language presented to A.J. Aitken Henry Hargreaves
7 1988 Review: Emma Letley, From Gault to Douglas Brown: Nineteenth-Century Fiction and the Scots Language Anne King
8 1989 Gaelic in Glasgow, c. 1723-1981 Charles W.J. Withers
8 1989 Recent Gaelic Poetry Iain Crichton Smith
8 1989 Gaelic Publishing Derick Thomson
8 1989 Gaelic education today Boyd Robertson
8 1989 Review: Leabhraichean ura cloinne (New children’s books) Seumas Grannd
8 1989 Review: Two New Scots Dictionaries John M. Kirk
8 1989 A note on: ‘A critical assessment of Tom Scott’s poem “The Seavaiger” as an exercise in poetic translation’ Lilo Moessner
9 1990 Language and Style in the Scottish Gaelic Bible (1767–1807). Donald E. Meek
9 1990 Robert Burns and Gaelic Roderick MacDonald
9 1990 ‘Haw, the Wickit Things Weans Dae!’: Max and Moritz in Scots Manfred Görlach
9 1990 Foreign Influences in the Vocabulary of William Dunbar. Stuart Lucas
9 1990 Review: Iseabail MacLeod, with Pauline Cairns, Caroline Macafee and Ruth Martin (eds.), The Scots Thesaurus Robert Burchfield
9 1990 Review: Michael Gregson with Kay Deas, The Crack and the Cant J. Derrick McClure
9 1990 Review: Peadar Morgan (trans.) Asterix an Ceilteach David Clement
10 1991 ‘Scotica Pronunciations’: Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century English Authors on Scots. Veronika Kniezsa
10 1991 Borrowing between Scots and Gaelic. Colm Ó Baoill
10 1991 A Linguistic Survey of the Use and Familiarity of Scottish Dialect Items in N.E. Fife. Susan M. Lawrie
10 1991 An Investigation of Attitudes to Scots and Glasgow Dialect among Secondary School Pupils. Janet Menzies
10 1991 Review: Studies in the History of the English Language John Anderson
10 1991 Review: Derick S. Thomson, ed., Gaelic and Scots in Harmony Meg Bateman
10 1991 Review: Kenneth MacKinnon, Gaelic – A Past and Future Prospect Janet Hunter
11/12 1992/93 The Gododdin: The Oldest Scottish Poem? Craig Cessford
11/12 1992/93 A Short Grammar of Older Scots C.I. Macafee
11/12 1992/93 Language, Music and Local Aesthetics: Views from Gaeldom and Beyond John Shaw
11/12 1992/93 Linguistic Awareness and Attitudes in a Sample of Scottish Speakers Flavia Iacuaniello
11/12 1992/93 Conference of the German Association of University Professors of English in Stuttgart, 1992 Lilo Moessner
11/12 1992/93 Computing and Research on Scots John M. Kirk
11/12 1992/93 Computers and Scots Lexicography Iseabail MacLeod
11/12 1992/93 A Computer Aided Method for Making a Linguistic Atlas of Older Scots Keith Williamson
11/12 1992/93 Computers and Gaelic Language Data Cathair Ó Dochartaigh
11/12 1992/93 Review: Jamie Stuart, The Glasgow Gospel Hazel C. Taylor
11/12 1992/93 Review: The Gaelic Terminology Database, Vol.1. Sonia Vathjunker
13 1994 Some Early Scottish Place-Names and Queen Margaret Simon Taylor
13 1994 Norse in Scotland Jeremy J. Smith
13 1994 Subordinate and-clauses in Scots and Hiberno-English: Origins and Development Martina Hacker
13 1994 Middle English tod ‘fox’: Old Irish taid ‘thief’ Andrew Breeze
13 1994 Parallel Structure in Dunbar’s Surrexit Dominus de Sepulchro Pamela K. Shaffer
13 1994 Québécois into Scots: Translating Michel Tremblay Martin Bowman and Bill Findlay
13 1994 A Dictionary Ramble Roderick MacDonald
13 1994 On a Standardised Spelling for Scots Angus Stirling
13 1994 Review: Margaret Laing and Keith Woodbridge, eds., Speaking in our Tongues: Proceedings of a Colloquium on Medieval Dialectology and Related Disciplines Graeme D. Caie
13 1994 Review: Alexander Fenton and Donald A. MacDonald, eds., Studies in Scots and Gaelic Derick S. Thomson
13 1994 Review: James Robertson, ed., A Tongue in Yer Heid: A Selection of the Best Contemporary Short Stories in Scots Kenneth R. Sadler
14/15 1995/96 Shibboleths of the Scots Colin Milton
14/15 1995/96 In Praise of William J. Watson (1865–1948): Celtic Place-Name Scholar W.F.H. Nicolaisen
14/15 1995/96 Aoidhmin Mac Gréagóir – A Little-known Gaelic Scholar Ciarán Ó Duibhinn
14/15 1995/96 Central Western Gaelic Dialect Anthony Dilworth
14/15 1995/96 The Lexical Geography of the Western Isles Seumas Grannd
14/15 1995/96 Remarkably Common Eloquence: The Aesthetics of Urban Dialect Ronald MacAulay
14/15 1995/96 The language of Perthshire Travellers Sheila Douglas
14/15 1995/96 Gaelic: An Exploration of the Interplay of Sociolinguistic Factors Morag M. McNeill
14/15 1995/96 Gaelic and ‘The Other Languages’ of Scotland Kenneth MacKinnon
14/15 1995/96 Ethnic Minority Languages in Scotland Mahendra K. Verma
14/15 1995/96 Marketing a Second Language: The Case of Scottish Gaelic in Ontario Kara Smith
14/15 1995/96 Scots: Matters of Identity and Nationalism Kim J.M.Hardie
14/15 1995/96 The Local Press: What’s in it for You? Roz Smith
14/15 1995/96 The Development of Eclipsis in Gaelic Roibeard Maolalaigh
14/15 1995/96 The Phonology of Scottish Gaelic Loanwords in Lowland Scots Dóra Pödör
14/15 1995/96 Phonetic Descriptions of Scottish Accents: A Historical perspective Deborah Cherry
14/15 1995/96 Dunbar’s Aureate Language Robert D. Drexler
14/15 1995/96 Plain Life Depicted in Fiery Shorthand Karen Corrigan
14/15 1995/96 Gaelic Vernacular Verse from the Parish of Glenmuick, Tulloch and Glengairn Alison Diack
14/15 1995/96 Advertising Feature: Bridging Scots and Gaelic George Philp
16 1997 The Pioneers of Anglicised Speech in Scotland: a second look A. J. Aitken
16 1997 Periphrastic do in The Complyant of Scotland and Ane Resonyng of ane Scottis and Enlish Merchand M. Nieves Rodriguez Ledesma
16 1997 Alexander Hume: Of the Orthographie and Conguitie of the Britan Tongue Veronika Kniezsa
16 1997 The Duke’s English: The Language of the Hamilton Papers Hans Peters
16 1997 Irish References in Early Scottish Gaelic Grammars: A Typological Parallel Alexander Falileyev
16 1997 MacDiarmid’s Use of Scots: Synthetic or Natural? David Purves
16 1997 The Origin of the Be-Perfect with Transitives in the Shetland Dialect Alexander Pavlenko
16 1997 Etymological Notes on Kirkcaldy, Jocteleg ‘Knife’, Kiaugh ‘Trouble’, Striffen ‘Membrane’ and Cow ‘Hobgolin’ Andrew Breeze
(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)
17 1998 DOST towards the Millenium Marace Dareau
17 1998 Scots Dictionaries Present and Future Isiabail Macleod
17 1998 Sir James Wilson and his Commonsense Approach to the Scots Language Sheila Douglas
17 1998 Diminutives in Scottish Standard English Marina Dossena
17 1998 Settlement Names in the South-West: Dumfries and Galloway Doreen J. Waugh
17 1998 Gaelic in Family, Work and Community domains Kenneth MacKinnon
17 1998 Tokenism in Gaelic: the Language of Appeasement Richard A.V. Cox
17 1998 Verbal Aspect in the Scots and English of Ulster John M. Kirk and Georgina Millar
17 1998 The Endurance of Scots in the United States Anne Marie Hamilton
17 1998 Some Influences on the Gaelic of Cape Breton Seamus Grannd

18 1999 Scots as a European Language 1500-1700 Dauvit Horsbroch
18 1999 The Present Participle in Middle Scots Ute Dons and Lilo Moessner
18 1999 Some Celtic Place-Names of Scotland Andrew Breeze
18 1999 Images of Language in Advertising in Scotland Roz Smith
18 1999 Language, Dialect or Accent? Attila Dósa
18 1999 The Interface between Haiku and Other Poetry David Purves
19 2000 The Demography of Scots: The Lessons of the Census Campaign Caroline Macafee
19 2000 Taming Volume III of the Linguistic Atlas of Scotland Paul Johnston, Jr
19 2000 The Demonstrative Pronouns in the North-East: An Introductory Discussion Sandra Mhairi McRae
19 2000 Some Characteristics of the Shetlandic Vowel System John M Tait
19 2000 Official Gaelic: Problems in the Translation of Public Documents Wilson McLeod
19 2000 Some Celtic Place-Names of Scotland including Arran, Carmunnock, Gogar and Water of May Andrew Breeze
20 2001 Spatio-Temporal Aspects of Older Scots Texts Keith Williamson
20 2001 Women as Informants in the Reconstruction of Geographically and Socioculturally Conditioned Language Variation and Change in 16th and 17th Century Scots Anneli Meurman-Solin
20 2001 ‘For the Aduancement of the Commoun Weilth’: Hypotheses in Scots Scientific Discourse of the 16th and 17th Centuries. A Preliminary Investigation Marina Dossena
20 2001 Alliteration in The Wallace Inge Milfull
20 2001 The Quha Problem in William Dunbar’s Quha Will Behald of Luve the Chance Regina Scheibe
20 2001 Language and Style in The Complaynt of Scotland Klaus Bitterling
20 2001 Review: Seumas Grannd, The Gaelic of Islay. A Comparative Study Cathair Ó Dochartaigh
21 2002 The Role of Scots Lexis in Scottish Newspapers Fiona M. Douglas
21 2002 Some Common and Distinctive Extra-Linguistic Features in the Histories of Scots and Ukrainian A. Pavlenko
21 2002 Some Celtic Place-Names of Scotland, including Tain, Cadzow, Cockleroy and Prenderguest Andrew Breeze
21 2002 ’N Linnet Mór: A Window on Language and Community in 18th Century Easter Ross Seosamh Watson
21 2002 Scottish Gaelic Caismeachd, Irish Caismirt, and the Emergence of Cadenced Marching Niall MacKenzie
21 2002 Review: Alan MacGillivray (ed.), Teaching Scottish Literature: curriculum and classroom applications Manfred Görlach
21 2002 Review: John M. Kirk and Dónall P. Ó Baoill (eds.), Belfast Studies in Language, Culture and Politics Donald MacAulay

(Number 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)
22 2003 ‘Mony notabill narratioun’: Scots Language Research, a Resource for the Study of Folklore, Literature and History Margaret A. MacKay
22 2003 Latin and French in Gilbert Hay’s Prose Works Jonathan A. Glenn
22 2003 Early Scottish Internationalism through Translation Tom Hubbard
22 2003 Middle Scots Prosody: Theory or Pragmatism? J. Derrick McClure
22 2003 Counsel in The Wallace: Pragmatic Observations on Advice in a Fifteenth-Century Scottish Poem Inge B. Milfull
22 2003 Review: Annette I. Hagan, Urban Scots Dialect Writing J. Derrick McClure
22 2003 Review: Richard A. V. Cox, The Gaelic Place-Names of Carloway, Isle of Lewis: Their Structure and Significance Anke-Beate Stahl
22 2003 Review: CELTICA, volume XXIV: In Memory of Brian Ó Cuív, ed. Malachy McKenna and Fergus Kelly Colm Ó Baoill

23 2004 ‘The Auld Warld is By Wi’: W.L. Lorimer’s The New Testament in Scots George Bruce
23 2004 Middle Scots as an Emerging Standard and Why It Did Not Make It Joanna Bugaj
23 2004 The Genitive in Ane Resonyng of Ane Scottis and Inglis Merchand betuix Rowand and Lionis Nieves Rodríguez Ledesma
23 2004 Some Celtic Place-Names of Scotland: Ptolemy’s Verubium Promontorium, Bede’s Urbs Giudi, Mendick, Minto and Panlathy Andrew Breeze
23 2004 The Challenge of Corpus Planning in Gaelic Development Wilson McLeod
23 2004 A Wee Keek at Scottish Rhyming Slang Antonio Lillo
23 2004 A Gaelic Etymology for Camstairy in Guy Mannering Andrew Breeze
23 2004 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
23 2004 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
24 2005 Onomasiological Variation and Change in the Older Scots Vocabulary of Marriage Javier E. Díaz Vera
24 2005 Sched Apon the Rude? Reflections on Scots and Religion Gavin Falconer
24 2005 The Distinctiveness of the Doric: Home-Grown or Imported? Marjorie Lorvik
24 2005 Ptolemy’s Taexali, Caelis, Loxa and Eitis Javier E. Díaz Vera
24 2005 Review: Bill Findlay (ed.), Frae Ither Tongues: Essays on Modern Translations into Scots Tom Hubbard
24 2005 Review: Klaske van Leyden, Prosodic Characteristics of Orkney and Shetland Dialects: An Experimental Approach Dominic Watt
24 2005 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
24 2005 Review: Royal Irish Academy, Corpas Na Gaeilge 1600–1882: Foclóir na Nua-Ghaeilge: The Irish Language Corpus Colm Ó Baoill
25 2006 The Ausbau of Present-Day Scots Holger Schmitt
25 2006 Anglo-English Influences on Scottish Standard English Speakers: Trap/Bath/Palm/Start and Lot/Cloth/Thought/North/ Force P. Carr and I. Brulard
25 2006 Smoking, Drinking, Dancing and Singing on the High Seas: Steamships and the uses of Smùid in Scottish Gaelic Donald E. Meek
25 2006 Three Celtic Names: Venicones, Tuesis and Soutra Andrew Breeze
25 2006 Review Article: Caroline Macafee (ed.), A. Jack Aitken, Older Scottish Vowels Paul A. Johnston, Jr.
25 2006 Review: Iseabail Macleod and Pauline Cairns (eds.), The Essential Scots Dictionary: Scots-English–English-Scots Marina Dossena
25 2006 Review: Christian J. Kay and Margaret A. Mackay (eds.), Perspectives on the Older Scottish Tongue Yuko Yoneyama
25 2006 Review: Danielle A.V. Löw-Wiebach, Language Attitudes and Language Use in Pitmedden (Aberdeenshire) Robert Millar
25 2006 Review: Piotr Stalmaszczyk, Celtic Presence: Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Cornish Niall O’Gallagher
26 2007 Place-names and the Scots Language: The Marches of Lexical and Onomastic Research Maggie Scott
26 2007 The Etymology and Meanings of Eldritch Alaric Hall
26 2007 A Gaelic Etymology for Dyvour ‘Debtor’ (a note) Andrew Breeze
26 2007 One More East Slavic Parallel for the Language Situation in the Lowlands Alexander Pavlenko
26 2007 Public Policy and Scots in Northern Ireland Gavin Falconer
26 2007 Migration, Family and Education in Gaelic Policy Perspective Kenneth MacKinnon
26 2007 Measuring Gaelic Language Planning Michelle MacLeod
26 2007 Some Scottish Names, including Vacomagi, Boresti, Iudanbyrig, Aberlessic and Dubuice Andrew Breeze
26 2007 Review: Robert McColl Millar, Dialects of English: Northern and Insular Scots Doreen Waugh
26 2007 Review: Wilson McLeod, James E. Fraser and Anja Gunderloch (eds.), Cànan & Cultar / Language & Culture: Rannsachadh na Gàidhlig 3 Colm Ó Baoill
26 2007 Review: Wilson McLeod (ed.), Revitalising Gaelic in Scotland – Policy, Planning and Public Discourse Michel Byrne
27 2008 ‘Many strange and peculiar affairs’: Description, Narration and Evaluation in Scottish Emigrants’ Letters of the 19th Century Marina Dossena
27 2008 The Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech – A User’s Guide Wendy Anderson and John Corbett
27 2008 Some Gaelic Etymologies for Scots Words: Drubly, Blad, Gilravage and Gaberlunzie Andrew Breeze
27 2008 The Gaelic of Stirlingshire Seumas Grannd
27 2008 Telleyr, Anguen, Gulath, and the Life of St Kentigern Andrew Breeze
27 2008 The ongoing influence of Lowland Scots, Irish and Ulster English on the developing varieties of Ulster Scots James Hale
27 2008 Review: Susanne Kries, ed., Skandinavisch-schottische Sprachbeziehungen im Mittelalter. Der altnordische Lehneinfluss Göran Wolf
27 2008 Review: Alasdair MacCallum, Reversing Language Shift: the Social Identity and Role of Scottish Gaelic Learners Kenneth MacKinnon
27 2008 Review: William Lamb, Scottish Gaelic Speech and Writing: Register variation in an endangered language Siobnán Ní Laoire

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