Publications of the Forum for Research on the Languages of Scotland and Ulster is a free, web-based, rigorously peer-reviewed series with a primary (although not sole) concentration on any languages which are or have been spoken in Scotland (including the Northern Isles) and the Irish province of Ulster.
The FRLSU Papers are kindly hosted by the University of Aberdeen. The Series Editor is currently Prof. Robert McColl Millar.
Each volume is accessible below with a full contents list and hyperlinked titles (click to expand each volume).
Volume 8 (2024): The Languages of Scotland and Ulster in a Global Context
The languages of Scotland and Ulster in a global context, past and present. Selected papers from the 13th triennial Forum for Research on the Languages of Scotland and Ulster, Munich 2021. Published: 16/01/2024. Edited by Christine Elsweiler.
| Click each paper below to read in full | Author(s) |
| Introduction | Christine Elsweiler |
| Elrick: a Doric tour-de-force | J. Derrick McClure |
| Fisher, Farmer, Teuchter, Chav: hyperlocal perceptions of North-East Scottish speech | Dawn Leslie |
| Politics, class and pronunciation: Onset /r/ and party affiliation in Scottish politics | Andreas Weilinghoff |
| The elusive butterfly of Scottish Standard English | Ole Schützler |
| Uncovering linguistic lineage through using a character N-gram based dialect classifier | Kevin Buckley |
| Introduction to the Digital Lexical Atlas of Scotland | John Kirk, Markus Pluschkovits, Hans Christian Breuer and Ludwig Maximilian Breuer |
| Towards a speech act annotation scheme for 18th-century Scottish letters | Christine Elsweiler |
| The role of language legislation in contemporary language policy in Scotland | Wilson McLeod |
| Nova Scotian Gaelic: More than a Fossil | Rob Dunbar |
| Rooted in Myth? Scotland’s Images from Late Modern Times to the Third Millennium | Marina Dossena |
Volume 7 (2022): Grammar of the Buchan Dialect
| Click each paper below to read in full | Author |
| The uncompleted second volume of Eugen Dieth’s Grammar of the Buchan Dialect. | Reconstructed and edited by J. Derrick McClure. |
Volume 6 (2020): Language on the Move
Language on the move across domains and communities. Selected papers from the 12th triennial Forum for Research on the Languages of Scotland and Ulster, Glasgow 2018. Published 20/11/2020. Edited by Joanna Kopaczyk and Robert McColl Millar
Volume 5 (2017): Before the Storm
Before the Storm: Papers from the Forum for Research on the Languages of Scotland and Ulster triennial meeting, Ayr 2015. Published 03/03/2017. Edited by Janet Cruickshank and Robert McColl Millar.
Volume 4 (2013): After the Storm
After the storm: Papers from the Forum for Research on the Languages of Scotland and Ulster triennial meeting, Aberdeen 2012. Published 04/08/2013. Edited by Janet Cruickshank and Robert McColl Millar.
Volume 3 (2012): Scottish Gaelic in Wagner’s Survey of Irish Dialects
Scottish Gaelic in Wagner’s Survey of Irish Dialects. Edited by Colm Ó Baoill
| Click each paper below to read in full | Author |
| Series Editor’s Introduction | Robert McColl Millar |
| Scottish Gaelic in Wagner’s Survey of Irish Dialects | Colm Ó Baoill |
Volume 2 (2010): Northern Lights, Northern Words
Northern Lights, Northern Words. Selected Papers from the FRLSU Conference, Kirkwall 2009. Published 15/11/2010. Edited by Robert McColl Millar.
Volume 1 (2010): Marginal dialects – Scotland, Ireland and beyond
Marginal dialects: Scotland, Ireland and beyond. Published 30/08/2010. Edited by Robert McColl Millar.
While largely linguistic and sociolinguistic in focus, this series also welcomes contributions concerned with the language of literature in the languages of Scotland and Ulster. Although primarily intended for the publication of collections of essays (often those associated with FRLSU colloquia and conferences), the publication of scholarly monographs will also be considered.
This initiative has been prompted by a growing awareness that traditional publishers, for perfectly understandable reasons, are beginning to shy away from considering book proposals for either edited collections or monographs dealing with subjects which, by their nature, will only attract a small scholarly audience. If such a volume is accepted for publication, the book produced is often made unattractive to both University Libraries and individual scholars by its price, thus increasing the minoritisation of the field(s) involved. Free online publishing where the same rigorous peer-review process takes place as in other scholarly outlets solves many of these problems.
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