SCOTS held a very successful Symposium on Linguistic Variation and Electronic Projects on 28th April 2006. The Symposium was dedicated to the memory of Professor Angus McIntosh, in recognition of his pioneering work in the study of Scots and in Humanities Computing. On this page you can find the dedication to Professor McIntosh, the abstracts of talks delivered, and short descriptions of a number of current electronic projects relating to different aspects of linguistic variation.
Dedication to Professor Angus McIntosh
Abstracts
- SCOTS: Problems and Challenges - Wendy Anderson, David Beavan
- Dealing With Variation: Data Collection and Organisation - Clive Upton
- Dealing With Variation: Spelling - Dawn Archer, Paul Rayson
- Dealing With Variation: Lexis - Christian Kay
- Dealing With Variation: Grammar and Syntax - Terttu Nevalainen
Electronic Projects
- Corpus of Scottish Correspondence
- Faclair na Gàidhlig: an editorial and textual foundation
- A Linguistic Atlas of Older Scots, Phase 1: 1380 to 1500
- The Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English (NECTE)
- 19CSC: A Corpus of Nineteenth-century Scottish Correspondence
- OED online
- Scottish Language Dictionaries
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