update September 2002 (incorporated into main
bibliography)
Forthcoming
I have
included in this section a few items that I happen to be aware of. I would be most
happy to include any further information on forthcoming scholarly work in this
field. I would appreciate any corrections (for instance the appearance of any
of these items that I haven't yet caught up with).
Aitken, A. J., ed. Caroline
Macafee The Older Scots Vowels: A History of the Stressed Vowels of Older
Scots from the Beginnings to the Eighteenth Century Scottish Text Society.
Summarised in Caroline Macafee, incorporating material by the late A. J. Aitken
"A history of Scots to 1700" in A Dictionary of the Older Scottish
Tongue vol.12 (2002), Oxford University Press, xxi-clvi.
Dossena, Marina
"Scotticisms in Johnson’s Dictionary: A lexicographer’s perceptions of a
sociolinguistic change in progress" in E. Barisone ed. The History of
English and the Dynamics of Power, Alessandria: Edizioni dell’Orso.
Husom, Kjetil "A
Scance ower the Scots Leid: A Survey of Attitudes towards and Use of the Scots
Language, Seen in a Sociolinguistic Perspective", thesis submitted for the
degree of Cand. Philol., University of Oslo. Data collected mainly from
language activists.
Kniezsa, Veronika "The
orthography of Older Scots: the manuscripts of Barbour's Bruce".
Ledesma, M. Nieves
Rodríguez "Linguistic anglicisation in The Complaynt of Scotland':
a study of further diagnostic variables" in Sally Mapstone and Juliette
Wood eds. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on
Scottish Language and Literature 1996.
Ledesma, M. Nieves
Rodríguez "Influence of normative English on sixteenth-century Scottish
prose", paper given to the 9th International Conference on
Scottish Language and Literature.
Macafee, Caroline "The
under-representation of Irish etymologies in English dictionaries", Studia
Indogermanica Lodziensia, 4.
Macafee, Caroline
"Scots and Scottish Standard English" in Raymond Hickey ed. The
Legacy of Colonial English: A Study of Transported Dialects Cambridge
University Press.
Macafee, Caroline
"Lowland sources of Ulster Scots: Gregg and LAS3 compared" in Philip
Robinson et al. eds., The Academic Study of Ulster Scots: Essays for
and by Robert Gregg. Details provisional.
Macafee, Caroline,
"Glesca dialeck i the modren warld", Lallans.
Macafee, Caroline,
"'Auld plain Scottis' and the pre-emptive staunardisation o Inglis"
McClure, J. Derrick
"Blind Harry's metrics" in Sally Mapstone and Juliette Wood eds. Older
Scots Literature vol.I, East Lothian: Tuckwell Press.
McClure, J. Derrick
"Drummond of Hawthornden and poetic translation".
Melchers, Gunnel
"Patterns of variation in a bidialectal community: the case of
Shetland", paper given to the 10th International Conference on
Methods in Dialectology, Newfoundland, 1999. Finds that code-switching is now
increasingly a cline rather than an either-or switch.
Mohr, Volker (in progress)
"Scotticisms: Lexicographic Archaeology and Scottish English Language
Regulation Activities" Heidelberg PhD thesis.
Mohr, Volker (in progress)
"Scottish Linguistics, 1595 to 1872: An Annotated Bibliography".
Montgomery, Michael
"The problem of persistence: Ulster-American missing links", The
Journal of Scotch-Irish Studies.
Montgomery, Michael (in
progress) "The transportation of Scots and English from Ulster to North
America" in Raymond Hickey ed. The Legacy of Colonial English: A Study
of Transported Dialects Cambridge University Press.
Robinson, Philip
"Burns and the Ulster-Scots poets" in R. Dixon ed. Belfast, Burns
and the Ulster-Scots Ulster-Scots Academic Press.
Robinson, Philip "The
language of the weaver poets" in R. Dixon ed. Belfast, Burns and the
Ulster-Scots Ulster-Scots Academic Press.
Smith, Jennifer "Old
World vs. New in negative concord use: evidence from Scotland".
Stuart-Smith, Jane and W.
G. Früh (in progress) Voice Quality in Glaswegian.
Taylor, Simon
"Scandinavians in Central Scotland - bý- place-names and their
context" in P. A. Bibere and G. Williams eds. Sagas, Saints and
Sacrifice British Museum Press.