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Anderwald, Lieselotte (2001) "Was/were-variation in non-standard British English today", English World-Wide 22:1, 1-22. Includes some Scottish data. Also covers ain’t.

Bitterling, Klaus (2001) "Language and style in The Complaynt of Scotland", Scottish Language 20, 86-98.

Chirrey, Deborah (2001) "An Articulatory and Acoustic Phonetic Study of Selected Consonants in Accents of Scottish English" unpublished University of Glasgow PhD thesis.

Dareau, Margaret (2001) "The Scots/Gaelic interface: a new perspective" in John Kirk and Dónall Ó Baoill eds. Language Links. The Languages of Scotland and Ireland Belfast: Queen's University, 237-256.

Dossena, Marina (2001) "‘For the aduancement of the commoun weilth’: hypotheses in Scots scientific discourse of the 16th and 17th centuries. A preliminary investigation", Scottish Language 20, 47-65.

Dossena, Marina (2001) "The voice of witnesses in nineteenth-century accounts of the Highland Clearances", Review of Scottish Culture 13, 40-50.

Dossena, Marina (2001) "The cruel slauchtyr that was cruelly exsecutit: Intensification and adverbial modality in the Helsinki Corpus of Older Scots – A preliminary overview", Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 102:3, 287-302.

Douglas, Fiona (2000) "The Role of Lexis in Scottish Newspapers" unpublished University of Glasgow PhD thesis.

Dunbar, Robert (2001) "Minority language rights regimes: an analytical framework, Scotland, and emerging European norms" in John Kirk and Dónall Ó Baoill eds., Linguistic Politics. Language Policies for Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, and Scotland, Belfast: Queen’s University, 231-254.

Eagle, Andy (2001) "Wha ye writin for?" in John Kirk and Dónall Ó Baoill eds., Linguistic Politics. Language Policies for Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, and Scotland, Belfast: Queen’s University, 169-176.

Falconer, Gavin (2001) "The Scots leid in the new poleitical institutions" in John Kirk and Dónall Ó Baoill eds., Linguistic Politics. Language Policies for Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, and Scotland, Belfast: Queen’s University, 135-158.

Fraser, Ian (1995) "Border place-names" in Donald Omand ed. The Borders Book, Edinburgh: Birlinn, 157-192.

Görlach, Manfred (2001) "Scots: the view from outside" in John Kirk and Dónall Ó Baoill eds. Language Links. The Languages of Scotland and Ireland Belfast: Queen's University, 181-194.

Görlach, Manfred (2002) A Textual History of Scots Heidelberg: C. Winter.

Harris, Stuart (1996) Place Names of Edinburgh: Their Origins and History, Edinburgh: Gordon Wright Publishing.

Horsbroch, Dauvit (2001) "A twalmonth an a wee tait forder" in John Kirk and Dónall Ó Baoill eds., Linguistic Politics. Language Policies for Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, and Scotland, Belfast: Queen’s University, 123-134.

Kirk, John (2000) "The new written Scots dialect in present-day Northern Ireland" in Magnus Ljung ed. Language Structure and Variation. A Festschrift for Gunnel Melchers, Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis, Stockholm Studies in English, 92, Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International, 121-138.

Lord Laird of Artigarvan (2001) "Language policy and Tha Boord o Ulstèr-Scotch" in John Kirk and Dónall Ó Baoill eds., Linguistic Politics. Language Policies for Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, and Scotland, Belfast: Queen’s University, 37-41.

Lawson, E. and J. Stuart-Smith (1999) "A sociophonetic investigation of the 'Scottish' consonants (/x/ and /hw/) in the speech of Glaswegian children" in Proceedings of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences San Francisco, 2541-4.

Lenz, Katja (2002) "Losses and gains: the case of Scots in Scotland" in Gerardo Mazzaferro ed. The English Language and Power, Alessandria: Edizioni dell’Orso, 181-200.

Löw, Danielle (2001) "Language attitudes in Pitmedden (Aberdeenshire): some new findings on instrumental and affective/integrative attitudes" in John Kirk and Dónall Ó Baoill eds. Language Links. The Languages of Scotland and Ireland Belfast: Queen's University, 133-148.

Macafee, Caroline (2001) "Lowland sources of Ulster Scots: some comparisons between Robert Gregg's data and The Linguistic Atlas of Scotland (volume 3)" in John Kirk and Dónall Ó Baoill eds., Language Links. The Languages of Scotland and Ireland, Belfast: Queen's University, 119-132.

Macafee, Caroline (2001) "Scots: hauf empty or hauf fu?" in John Kirk and Dónall Ó Baoill eds., Linguistic Politics. Language Policies for Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, and Scotland, Belfast: Queen's University, 159-68.

Macafee, Caroline (2002) "The impact of anglicisation on the phonology of Scots: a keethin sicht" in Katja Lenz and Ruth Möhlig eds. Of Dyuersitie & Chaunge of Langage: Essays Presented to Manfred Görlach on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday Heidelberg: C. Winter, 240-256.

Macafee, Caroline, incorporating material by the late A. J. Aitken (2002) "A history of Scots to 1700" in A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue vol.12, Oxford University Press, xxi-clvi.

McGugan, Irene (2001) "Scots in the twenty-first century" in John Kirk and Dónall Ó Baoill eds., Linguistic Politics. Language Policies for Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, and Scotland, Belfast: Queen’s University, 29-36.

Meurman-Solin, Anneli (1989) "Variation analysis and diachronic studies of lexical borrowing" in Caie et al. eds Proceedings from the Fourth Nordic Conference for English Studies, Department of English, University of Copenhagen, vol.I, 87-98. Also in Anneli Meurman-Solin Variation and Change in Early Scots Prose. Studies based on the Helsinki Corpus of Older Scots (1993) Annales Academiae Scientarum Fennicae Dissertationes Humanarum Litterarum 65, Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 227-235.

Meurman-Solin, Anneli (2000) "On the conditioning of geographical and social distance in language variation and change in Renaissance Scots" in Dieter Kastovsky and Arthur Mettinger eds. The History of English in a Social Context: A Contribution to Historical Sociolinguistics Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 227-255.

Meurman-Solin, Anneli (2001) "Women as informants in the reconstruction of geographically and socioculturally conditioned language variation and change in 16th and 17th century Scots", Scottish Language, 20-46.

Meurman-Solin, Anneli (2001) "Structured text corpora in the study of language variation and change", Literary and Linguistic Computing 16:1, 5-27.

Meurman-Solin, Anneli (2002) "Simple and complex grammars: the case of temporal subordinators in the history of Scots" in Helena Raumolin-Brunberg et al. eds., Variation Past and Present. VARIENG Studies on English for Terttu Nevalainen, Mémoires de la Société Néophilologique de Helsinki 61, Helsinki: Société Néophilologique, 187-210.

Middleton, Sheena (1999) Doric: The Cock of the North: Points of View on a Linguistic Compass: Interviews with North East Folk, Aberdeen: Elphinstone Institute, University of Aberdeen.

Milfull, Inge (2001) "Alliteration in the Wallace", Scottish Language 20, 66-79.

O'Neill, Dervilla (1987) "Ethnolinguistic Differences within a Northern Irish Community" unpublished Trinity College, Dublin, MPhil thesis.

Ó Riagáin, Dónall (2001) "Language rights/human rights in Northern Ireland and the role of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages" in John Kirk and Dónall Ó Baoill eds., Linguistic Politics. Language Policies for Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, and Scotland, Belfast: Queen’s University, 43-54.

Parsley, Ian (2001) "Ulster-Scots: politicisation or survival?" in John Kirk and Dónall Ó Baoill eds., Linguistic Politics. Language Policies for Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, and Scotland, Belfast: Queen’s University, 177-180.

Parsley, Ian (2001) "Authenticity of Scots" in John Kirk and Dónall Ó Baoill eds., Linguistic Politics. Language Policies for Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, and Scotland, Belfast: Queen’s University, 181-186.

Pavlenko, Alexander (1996) "On the use of ‘be’ as a perfective auxiliary in modern Shetland dialect: hybridisation and syntactic change" in P. Sture Ureland and Iain Clarkson eds. Language Contact across the Atlantic, Tübingen: Max Niemeyer, 75-82.

Robinson, Christine and Carol Ann Crawford (2001) Scotspeak. Recordings of the Speech of Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee and Aberdeen Perth: Scots Language Resource Centre. CD and book.

Rooney, Edward (2001) "Language policy implementation: a DCAL civil servant’s perspective" in John Kirk and Dónall Ó Baoill eds., Linguistic Politics. Language Policies for Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, and Scotland, Belfast: Queen’s University, 55-60.

Russell, Michael (2001) "Language and politics in Scotland" in John Kirk and Dónall Ó Baoill eds., Linguistic Politics. Language Policies for Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, and Scotland, Belfast: Queen’s University, 23-28.

Smith, Jeremy (2000) "Scots" in Glanville Price ed. Languages of Britain and Ireland Oxford: Blackwell, 159-70.

Smith, Jeremy (2002) "The Scots-English linguistic continuum in eighteenth-century verse" in Katja Lenz and Ruth Möhlig eds. Of Dyversitie & Chaunge of Langage. Essays Presented to Manfred Görlach on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday Heidelberg: C. Winter, 339-52.

Williamson, Keith (2001) "Spatio-temporal aspects of Older Scots texts", Scottish Language 20, 1-19.

Williamson, Keith (2000) "Changing spaces: Linguistic relationships and the dialect continuum" in Irma Taavitsainen et al. eds., Placing Middle English in Context, Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 141-179.

Wilson, Colin (2002) Luath Scots-Language Learner, Edinburgh: Luath Press. Book and double CD. An introduction for the layperson, by an enthusiast.

Woodsworth, Judith (1996) "Language, translation and the promotion of national identity: two test cases", Target 8:2, 211-238.

Zwickl, Simone (2000) "A divided speech community? Language attitudes, religion and ethnic identity across the Northern Irish/Irish Border" in Szilvia Deminger et al. eds. Einstellungsforschung in der Soziolinguistik und Nachbardisziplinen - Studies in Language Attitudes Frankfurt: PUBLISHER.

Zwickl, Simone (2001) "Language Attitudes, Social Identity and Dialect Use across the Northern Irish/Irish Border: Ethnolinguistic Differences in Armagh and Monaghan" unpublished University of Heidelberg PhD thesis.

Zwickl, Simone (2001) "Dialect knowledge and use across the Northern Irish/Irish Border: linguistic and extralinguistic factors" in John Kirk and Dónall Ó Baoill eds., Language Links. The Languages of Scotland and Ireland, Belfast: Queen's University, 149-69. Mainly concerned with Hiberno-English, but some Scots lexical items.