main bibliography

welcome

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.