Scots and Scottish English
Glasgow is now arguably the leading institution in the UK for the study of Scots and English in Scotland. Many colleagues work on Scottish topics, making links between the study of Scots and our Modern and Historical English Language themes, e.g. work on the sociolinguistic study of Scottish dialects from both modern and historical perspectives, and indeed beyond. Research in Scots language also includes work on the handling of Scots and Scottish English in literature (including editing), on documents and letters in Scots and Scottish English, on Scottish book history, on grammar and accents of modern Scots, on the history of the lexicon and Scottish place-names, and on the use of corpora for research into Scottish language. Digital approaches are a major feature of our work in this area. Many projects acknowledge with gratitutde support from the UK research councils, and the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Carnegie and Leverhulme Trusts, and other bodies. For details, contact Jennifer.Smith@glasgow.ac.uk.
Associated Staff
| Marc Alexander |
| Wendy Anderson |
| Graham Caie |
| Catherine Emmott |
| Carole Hough |
| Elizabeth Robertson |
| Jennifer Smith |
| Jeremy Smith |
| Rachel Smith |
| Jane Stuart-Smith |
| Jean Anderson (Honorary Research Fellow) |
| Christian Kay (Honorary Senior Research Fellow) |
Projects
Corpus of Modern Scottish Writing, 1700-1945
Editing Robert Burns for the Twenty-First Century
Enroller
Is Television a Contributory Factor in Accent Change in Adolescents?
Mapping Metaphor
Rhythms in Scotland
Scots Words and Place-names
Scottish Toponymy in Transition
Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech (SCOTS)
Stability versus change in a Shetland dialect
Sounds of the City
Textual Afterlives
Timing in Accents of English
Associated Links
Association of Scottish Literary Studies
Dictionary of the Scots Language
Scottish Text Society