Recently added articles from Scottish Language:
Place-names and the Scots language: the marches of lexical and onomastic research.
Jan 01, 2007; ... I. INTRODUCTION Lexicography and onomastics are two closely related disciplines that are often of benefit to one another. Both also make an important contribution to wider aspects of language study. Onomastic evidence for Scots can help to shed light on the period of ...
The etymology and meanings of eldritch.
Jan 01, 2007; ... The meanings of the early attestations of the Scots word eldritch are given in the Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (hereafter DOST) as 'Belonging to, or resembling, the elves or similar beings' and 'Connected with, proceeding from, suggestive of, elves or supernatural beings; ...
A Gaelic etymology for dyvour 'debtor'.
Jan 01, 2007; ... Dyvour makes its entry into Scots in line 410 of Dunbar's Tretis of the Twa Mariit Wemen and the Wedo, where the last exalts in the death of an unloved spouse: <Pre>Deid is now that dyvour and dollin in erd:With him deit all my dule and my drery thoghtis. (1) </Pre> ...
One more East Slavic parallel for the language situation in the Lowlands.
Jan 01, 2007; ... The language situations in the East Slavic countries present several noteworthy parallels providing new perspectives on the dialect continuum in Lowland Scotland. (1) In this respect Belarus is by no means less attractive for sociolinguistic comparisons with the Scottish Lowlands than ...
Public policy and Scots in Northern Ireland.
Jan 01, 2007; ... In a remarkable scene in Jean Cocteau's 1950 film Orphee, an acclaimed poetry review entitled Nudisme is revealed to be nothing more than a series of blank pages. While Cocteau may have wished to satirise the existentialism of the day, contemporary campaigners for state spending to develop ...
Migration, family and education in Gaelic policy perspective (1).
Jan 01, 2007; ... MIGRATION AND GAELIC COMMUNITY DILUTION Since questions on Gaelic were first asked on the population census in 1881, there has been a rapid contraction of the Gaelic-majority area in Scotland. At the end of the nineteenth century the area where the majority of the local ...
Measuring Gaelic language planning.
Jan 01, 2007; ... A DIACHRONIC SURVEY OF LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT PRINCIPLES This paper looks at four documents produced in the last twenty years which are indicators of Gaelic development principles at their relative times of publication. These documents are measured against theoretical language ...
Some Scottish names, including Vacomagi, Boresti, Iudanbyrig, Aberlessic and Dubuice.
Jan 01, 2007; ... AN EMENDATION TO PTOLEMY'S VACOMAGI The 'Vacomagi' were a people of North Britain, whom Ptolemy called the Ouakomagoi, and who have been identified with the Ravenna Cosmography's Maromago (Rivet and Smith 1979: 484-5). Their location and name have been problematic. Watson (1926: ...
Dialects of English: Northern and Insular Scots.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2007; ... DIALECTS OF ENGLISH: NORTHERN AND INSULAR SCOTS. By Robert McColl Millar. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007. 178 pp. ISBN 978 0 7486 2317 4. This compact book, with its thought-provoking cover design, belongs to the Dialects of English series and I think it worthwhile ...
Canan & Cultar / Language & Culture: Rannsachadh Na Gaidhlig 3.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2007; ... CANAN & CULTAR / LANGUAGE & CULTURE: RANNSACHADH NA GAIDHLIG 3. Edited by Wilson McLeod, James E. Fraser and Anja Gunderloch. Edinburgh: Dunedin Academic Press, 2006. Pbk, xx + 294 pp. ISBN 978 1903765 60 9. This attractive volume consists of a selection of papers from the ...
Revitalising Gaelic in Scotland--Policy, Planning and Public Discourse.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2007; ... Revitalising Gaelic in Scotland--Policy, Planning and Public Discourse, ed. Wilson McLeod, Dunedin Academic Press, Edinburgh 2006. ISBN 1 903765 59 5 / 978 903765 59 3. 322 pp. This book, like its accompanying volume Canan & Cultar, is based on contributions to the 2004 ...
The ausbau of present-day Scots.(Ausbausprache)(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2006; ... The aim of this paper is to give an overview of two aspects of modern-day Scots: its range of use (which is larger than sometimes assumed) and its standardisation (or lack thereof). Both aspects have come to be subsumed under the term ausbau, (1) following its introduction by the German ...
Anglo-English influences on Scottish Standard English speakers: Trap/Bath/Palm/Start and Lot/Cloth/Thought/North/Force (1).
Jan 01, 2006; ... 1. INTRODUCTION Current related work concerning Anglo-English influences on Scottish English includes that of Stuart-Smith (1999 and elsewhere (2)) on London English influences on WC Glasgow English. Stuart-Smith found evidence of London English features in inner-city (Gorbals) ...
Smoking, drinking, dancing and singing on the high seas: steamships and the uses of smuid in Scottish Gaelic.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2006; ... Speakers of Scottish Gaelic are well used to the compound noun batasmuide ('boat of steam, steamship') and its noun-phrase variants, such as bata na smuid(e), which are employed fairly regularly in day-to-day Gaelic. The term, especially in its second form, is particularly common in song ...
Three Celtic names: Venicones, Tuesis and Soutra.
Jan 01, 2006; ... The Celtic expressions discussed here have different origins. Venicones and Tuesis, occurring in Ptolemy, refer to a Grampian tribe and to the fiver Spey. Soutra, in contrast, is a medieval settlement in Midlothian. The forms are set out chronologically. THE VENICONES, A PEOPLE ...
A. Jack Aitken, Older Scottish Vowels.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2006; ... A. JACK AITKEN, OLDER SCOTTISH VOWELS. Edited by Caroline Macafee. 2002. Guildford, Surrey: Scottish Text Society. The passing of Jack Aitken truly marked the end of an era in the field of Scots linguistics, a field that, if he did not invent, he at least led into the modern age ...
The Essential Scots Dictionary. Scots-English--English-Scots.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2006; ... THE ESSENTIAL SCOTS DICTIONARY. SCOTS-ENGLISH--ENGLISH-SCOTS. Edited by Iseabail Macleod and Pauline Cairns. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 2004. pp. xii + 370. ISBN 0 7486 220l 2 (pbk). In recent years Scottish lexicography has taken giant steps forward. The completion ...
Perspectives on the Older Scottish Tongue.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2006; ... PERSPECTIVES ON THE OLDER SCOTTISH TONGUE. Edited by Christian J. Kay and Margaret A. Mackay. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2005. ISBN 0 7486 2281 0. 25 [pounds sterling] (hbk). This volume marks the completion of the Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (DOST) in ...
Language Attitudes and Language Use in Pitmedden (Aberdeenshire).(Book review)
Jan 01, 2006; ... LANGUAGE ATTITUDES AND LANGUAGE USE IN PITMEDDEN (ABERDEENSHIRE). By Danielle A.V. Low-Wiebach. VarioLingua 24. Bern: Peter Lang. 2005. This illuminating and well-written book--the author's doctoral dissertation--provides most useful and applicable analyses of the language ...
Celtic Presence: Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Cornish.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2006; ... CELTIC PRESENCE: IRISH, SCOTTISH GAELIC AND CORNISH. By Piotr Stalmaszczyk. (Studies in Celtic Languages and Literatures). Lodz: University Press. 2005. pp. 196. ISBN 83 7171 849 7 (pbk). Piotr Stalmaszczyk's book brings together work on a number of different and disparate ...