Northern Lights, Northern Words. Selected Papers from the FRLSU Conference, Kirkwall 2009
Introduction
Robert McColl Millar
Linguistic patterns in the place-names of Norway and the Northern Isles
Berit Sandnes
Shetland and Orkney Island-Names - A Dynamic Group
Peder Gammeltoft
The Study of Norn
Michael Barnes
The Norse element in the Orkney dialect
Donna Heddle
Distinctive semantic fields in the Orkney and Shetland dialects, and their use in the local literature
J. Derrick McClure
The role of 'family' in intergenerational transmission of Shetland dialect vocabulary
Edit Bugge
Scottish Standard English as spoken in Lerwick: an overview of pronunciation features
Peter Sundkvist
Language and my poetry
Christine De Luca
'A steedy hand, a geasend throat, a dry heart and an empty pip': Scots and vernacular features in William Cameron's letters
Marina Dossena
Irish and Scottish 'Island Poems'
Edna Longley
What became of 'you'? Language in Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Sunset Song and Alastair Cording's stage adaptation
Katharina Mewald
How Scottish is Irish Standard English?
John M. Kirk and Jeffrey L. Kallen
A Note from the Orkney Conference: Tobar an Dualchais/Kist o Riches
Caroline Macafee