12th Forum for Research on Languages of Scotland and Ulster

The Forum for Research on Languages of Scotland and Ulster (FRLSU) is a scholarly organisation dedicated to the study and advocacy of the languages spoken, signed or written in Scotland and the nine counties of Ulster in the past or today. The twelfth triennial meeting of the FRLSU will be hosted by the English Language & Linguistics department at the University of Glasgow on 23-25 August 2018.

The broad theme this year is “Linguistic migrations”, including but not limited to the relationships and interactions within and between historical Germanic and Celtic languages of Scotland and Ulster, as well as the languages of earlier and more recent immigrants.

The plenary talks (see here for abstracts) will be delivered by:

Karen Corrigan (Newcastle University): “I don’t like feel that I would fit in in Lithuania anymore”: The linguistic identities of new speakers in Northern Ireland
Robert McColl Millar (University of Aberdeen): Marginal Scots, past and present
Roibeard Ó Maolalaigh (University of Glasgow): ‘Risk-free’ corpus planning for Scottish Gaelic? Collaborative development of basic grammatical norms for 21st century speakers

Other themes to be discussed at the conference include language attitudes and identity, as well as aspects of sound, grammar, and style in written, spoken and signed communication in Scotland. The conference will also feature a 3-year report on the Scots Language in the Curriculum for Excellence.