LINGUIST List 22.4090 Wed Oct 19 2011 Confs: Gaelic, Scottish, Scots, Socioling, Historical Ling/Scotland Editor for this issue: Amy Brunett <brunettlinguistlist.org> New! Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:             http://multitree.linguistlist.org/ LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.     Robert McColl Millar , Linguistic Attrition; Linguistic Creation. Message 1: Linguistic Attrition; Linguistic Creation. Date: 18-Oct-2011 From: Robert McColl Millar <r.millarabdn.ac.uk> Subject: Linguistic Attrition; Linguistic Creation. E-mail this message to a friend Linguistic Attrition; Linguistic Creation. Date: 03-Dec-2011 - 03-Dec-2011 Location: Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom Contact: Robert McColl Millar Contact Email: < click here to access email > Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Sociolinguistics Subject Language(s): Gaelic, Scottish; Scots Meeting Description: Linguistic attrition; Linguistic creation A One-Day Symposium organised by FRLSU Macrobert Building MR302, King’s College, University of Aberdeen 10:45-1730, 3 December 2011 The Complexities of Attrition: Change Across the Generations in Lerwick, Shetland Mercedes Durham (University of Aberdeen) Attrition in the Dialects of the Scottish Fishing Communities Will Barras (University of Aberdeen) Is there a Future for Regional Dialects in Scottish Gaelic Dialects? Will Lamb (University of Edinburgh) Cockney Transformed: Who are the Eastenders Now? Paul Kerswill (University of Lancaster) The Lexical Choices of James Duff, 2nd Earl Fife (1764-1789) and the Emergence of Scottish Standard English Janet Cruickshank (University of Aberdeen) Ane Instructioun for Bairnis to be Learnit in Scottis: a Co-constructive Participatory Study of Scots Language and Literature Use for Social Inclusion in the Secondary Classroom. Karen Lowing (University of Newcastle) Fee: £25; Students, Unwaged and OAP: £15 This fee includes a sandwich lunch. Coffee and tea will be available from 1030 on. The FRLSU December Symposia provide the opportunity for speakers to give in-depth papers in an intimate and sympathetic environment. Contact Robert McColl Millar (r.millarabdn.ac.uk) for further details Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 19-Oct-2011       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.