Here are some preliminary bibliographical references. This page is updated regularly.
| Category | |
|---|---|
| Aitken, A. J., Macafee; Caroline, 2002, The Older Scots Vowels: A History of the Stressed Vowels of Older Scots from the Beginnings to the Eighteenth Century., Edinburgh, Scottish Text Society, | Older Scots Phonology (vowels) |
| Aitken, A.J., 1981, The good old Scots tongue. Does Scots have an identity?.Haugen, E., J.D. McClure and D. Thomson, Minority languages today, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 72-90 | Scots identity |
| Aitken, A.J., 1989, The lexicography of Scots two hundred years since: Ruddiman and his successors.Mackenzie, J. Lachlan and Richard Todd, In other words: Transcultural studies in philology, translation and lexicology, Dordrecht, Foris, 235-245 | Scots lexicography |
| Aitken, A.J., 1994, Progress in the study of Modern Scots since 1948.Fenton, A. and D. McDonald, Studies in Scots and Gaelic, Edinburgh, Canongate, 1-40 | History of Scots studies |
| Aitken, A.J.; McIntosh, Angus; Páulson, Hermann, 1971, Edinburgh studies in English and Scots., London , Longman, | Scots and English linguistics |
| Benskin, Michael; Samuels, M.L., 1981, So meny people, longages and tonges: philological essays in Scots and Mediaevel English presented to Angus McIntosh., Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, | Scots and Middle English |
| Bradley, Henry, 1913, On the relations between spoken and written language with special reference to English. Paper read at the International Historical Congress.Proceedings of the British Academy, 6, London, British Academy, | Graphophonology |
| Britton, Derek, 1992, Of contreth matters.Neophiolologus, 76, 283-289 | Etymology |
| Cleishbotham the Younger, 1858, A handbook of the Scottish Language., Edinburgh, J.L. Smith, | Scots dictionary |
| Dossena, Marina; Lass, Roger, 2009, Studies in English and European historical dialectology., Bern, Peter Lang, | Historical dialectology |
| Fenton, Alexander; MacDonald, Donald, A., 1994, Studies in Scots and Gaelic: Procedings of the Third International Conference on the Languages of Scotland., Edinburgh, Cannongate, | Scots and Gaelic linguistics |
| Fisiak, Jacek, 1995, Medieval dialectology., Berlin, Mouton de Gruyter, | Historical dialectology |
| Görlach, Manfred, 1984, Scots and Low German: The social history of two minority languages.Görlach, Manfred, Focus on: Scotland, Amsterdam, John Benjamins, 1-18 | Scots identity and history |
| Graham, William, 1977, The Scots word book., Edinburgh, The Ramsay Head Press, | Scots-English dictionary |
| Grant, William, 1913, The pronunciation of English in Scotland., Cambridge , Cambridge University Press, | Phonology of Scottish English |
| Jamieson, John, 1875, Supplement to the Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language.Vol 1, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, | Scots etymological dictionary |
| Johnston, Paul, 1997, Older Scots phonology and its regional variation.Jones, Charles, The Edinburgh history of the Scots language, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 47-111 | Scots phonology |
| Kay, Christian J.; Mackay, Margret A., 2005, Perspectives on the Older Scottish Tongue: a celebration of DOST., Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, | Scots lexicology and lexicography |
| King, Anne, 1997, The inflectional morphology of Older Scots.Jones, Charles, The Edinburgh history of the Scots language, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 156-181 | Scots morphology |
| Kniezsa, Veronika, 1976, To the phonetical aspects of the development of the standard Scots vowel system.Acta Linguistica Academiae Scientarum Hungaricae, 26/3-4), 457-466 | Scots phonology |
| Laing, Margaret; Williamson, Keith, 1994, Speaking in our tongues: Medieval dialectology and related disciplines., Cambridge, D.S. Brewer, | Historical dialectology |
| Macafee, Caroline, 1989, Middle Scots dialects - extrapolating backwards.McClure, J. D. and M. Spiller, Bryght lanternis: Essays on the language and literature of medieval and renaissance Scotland, Aberdeen, Aberdeen University Press, 429-441 | Scots dialectology |
| Macafee, Caroline; Macleod, Iseabail, 1987, The Nuttis Schell: Essays on the Scots Language presented to A. J. Aitken., Aberdeen, Aberdeen University Press, | Scots linguistics |
| Mackie, Alexander, 1881, Scotticisms arranged and corrected., London, Hamilton, Adams and Co., | Scots glossary |
| Macleod, Iseabail; McClure, J. Darreck, 2012, Scotland in definition: a history of Scottish dictionaries., Edinburgh , John Donald, | Scots lexicography |
| MacQueen, John, 1970, Ballattis of Luve., Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, | Scots poetry |
| Mather, J.Y.; Spietel, H.H., 1985, The linguistic atlas of Scotland.Vol 1, London, Croom Helm, | Scottish dialectology |
| Mather, J.Y.; Spietel, H.H., 1977, The linguistic atlas of Scotland.Vol 2, Hamden, CT, Archon Books, | Scottish dialectology |
| Mather, J.Y.; Spietel, H.H., 1986, The linguistic atlas of Scotland: Phonology.Vol 3, London, Croom Helm, | Scottish dialectology |
| McClure, J. Derrick, 1994, English in Scotland.Burchfield, Robert, The Cambridge history of the English language. Vol. 5. English in Britain and overseas: Origins and development., Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 23-93 | Scots and Scottish English |
| McIntosh, Angus, 1961, An introduction to a Survey of Scottish dialects., Edinburgh , Edinburgh University Press, | Scots dialectology |
| McIntosh, Angus, 1949, On planning a dialect survey of Scotland., Ann Arbour, | Scottish dialectology |
| McIntosh, Angus, 1954, The study of Scots in relation to other subjects.Orbis, 3(1), , 173-177 | Scots dialectology |
| McIntosh, Angus, 1989, The dialectology of mediaeval Scots: Some possible approaches to its study.McIntosh, Angus, M. L. Samuels and Margaret Laing, Middle English dialectology: Essays on some principles and problems, Aberdeen, Aberdeen University Press, 81-85 | Scots dialectology |
| McIntosh, Angus, 1989, Is Sir Tristem an English or a Scottish poem?.Mackenzie, J. Lachlan and Richard Todd, In other words: Transcultural studies in philology, translation and lexicology, Dordrecht, Foris, 85-95 | Manuscript studies |
| McIntosh, Angus; Samuels, M.L.; Benskin, M. , 1987, Guide to A linguistic atlas of Late Mediaeval English.A linguistic atlas of Late Mediaeval English, Aberdeen, Aberdeen University Press, 2-23 | Middle English dialects |
| Meurman-Solin, Anneli, 1997, Change from above or below? Patterns and directions of change in the history of Scottish English., | Scots phonology and morphology |
| Murakami, Ryuta, 1988, A catalogue of early northern Middle English manuscripts.English Language and English Literature, 29, 61-123 | Middle English bibliography |
| Ogura, Mieko, 1990, Dynamic dialectology: A study of language in time and space., Tokyo, Kenkyusha, | Historical dialectology |
| Parvinen, Maija, 1998, Scandinavian Loanwords in Scots: a study of Linmill stories by Robert McLellan., Turku, University of Turku, | Scots Lexis |
| Robinson, Mairi, 1985, The Concise Scots Dictionary., Aberdeen, Aberdeen University Press, | Scots dictionary |
| Simpson, Grant G., 1973, Scottish handwriting 1150-1650., Aberdeen, Aberdeen University Press, | Scottish paleography |
| Smith, Jeremy J., 2012, Older Scots: A linguistic reader., Edinburgh , Scottish Text Society, | Scots reader and commentary |
| Speitel, Hans-Henning, 1969, An areal typology of isoglosses: Isoglosses near the Scottish-English border.Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik, 36, 49-66 | Scots dialectology |
| Speitel, Hans-Henning, 1972, The stressed vowels in Standard Scottish English: A reply to D. Baehr.Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik, 39, 215-216 | Scottish English phonology |
| Speitel, Hans-Henning, 1975, Caller Ou!' An Edinburgh fishwives' cry and an old Scottish sound change.Scottish Studies, 19, 69-73 | Etymology |
| Speitel, Hans-Henning, 1981, The geographical position of the Scots dialect in relation to the Highlands of Scotland.Benskin, Michael and M.L. Samuels, So meny people longages and tonges: Philological essays in Scots and mediaeval English presented to Angus McIntosh, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 107-129 | Scots dialectology |
| Speitel, Hans-Henning; Mather, James Y., 1968, Schottische Dialektologie: Zur Terminologie.Schmitt, Ludwig Erich, Germanische Dialektologie: Festschrift für Walther Mitzka zum 80. Geburtstag, Wiesbaden, Franz Steiner, 520-541 | Scots dialectology |
| Stevenson, James A. C.; Macleod, Iseabail, 1989, Scoor-oot: A dictionary of Scots words and phrases in current use., London, Athlone, | Scots dictionary |
| Warrack, Alexander; Grant, William, 1911, A Scots dialect dictionary., London, Chambers, | Scots dialect dictionary |
| Warrack, Alexander; Kirkpatrick, Betty, 1988, The Concise Scots Dictionary., Poole, New Orchard, | Scots dictionary |
| Williams, Irene F., 1912, Phonetics for Scottish students., Glasgow, University of Glasgow, | Scottish phonetics |
| Williams, O. T., 1910, The development of AI and EI in Middle Scotch.Transactions of the Philological Society, 285-287 | Scots phonology |
| Williams, O. T., 1911, On A, Ā, and Æ in the rimes of Barbour's Brus and in Modern Scotch dialects.Transactions of the Philological Society, 7-26 | Scots phonology |
| Williamson, Keith, 2006, Further reflections on the outcomes of Nerthern Fronting in Older Scots. | Scots phonology |
| Young, Douglas, 1946, "Plastic Scots" and the Scottish literary tradition: An authoritative introduction to a controversy.Glasgow, Dunedin Society, 1-32 | Scottish literature |