Recently added articles from Scottish Language:
Place-names and the Scots language: the marches of lexical and onomastic research.
Jan 01, 2007; Scott, Maggie ... 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; Hall, Alaric ... 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; Breeze, Andrew ... 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; Pavlenko, Alexander ... 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; Falconer, Gavin ... 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; MacKinnon, Kenneth ... 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; MacLeod, Michelle ... 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; Breeze, Andrew ... 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; Waugh, Doreen ... 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; Baoill, Colm O. ... 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; Byrne, Michel ... 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 ...
