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Millar, Robert McColl (ed.) 2010. Northern Lights, Northern Words. Selected Papers from the FRLSU Conference, Kirkwall 2009. ISBN: 978-0-9566549-1-5

 

Introduction

Berit Sandnes, Linguistic patterns in the place-names of Norway and the Northern Isles                 

Peder Gammeltoft, Shetland and Orkney Island-Names – A Dynamic Group

Michael Barnes, The Study of Norn

Donna Heddle, The Norse element in the Orkney dialect

J. Derrick McClure, Distinctive semantic fields in the Orkney and Shetland dialects, and their use in the local literature

Edit Bugge, The role of 'family' in intergenerational transmission of Shetland dialect vocabulary

Peter Sundkvist, Scottish Standard English as spoken in Lerwick: an overview of pronunciation features

Christine De Luca, Language and my poetry

Marina Dossena, 'A steedy hand, a geasend throat, a dry heart and an empty pip': Scots and vernacular features in William Cameron's letters

Edna Longley, Irish and Scottish 'Island Poems'

Katharina Mewald, What became of 'you'? Language in Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Sunset Song and Alastair Cording's stage adaptation

John M. Kirk and Jeffrey L. Kallen, How Scottish is Irish Standard English?

Caroline Macafee, A Note from the Orkney Conference: Tobar an Dualchais/Kist o Riches

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