Robert McColl Millar
List of John Benjamins publications in which Robert McColl Millar is involved.
Journal
ISSN 0172-8865 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9730
2017 Bann & Corbett. 2015. Spelling Scots. The Orthography of Literary Scots, 1700–2000 English World-Wide 38:1, pp. 121–124 | Review
2012 The problem of reading dialect in semiliterate letters: The correspondence of the Holden family, 1812–16 and of Richard Taylor 1840–51 Letter Writing in Late Modern Europe, Dossena, Marina and Gabriella Del Lungo Camiciotti (eds.), pp. 163–178 | Article
This qualitative study is concerned with the letters sent by two inhabitants of Lancashire in the first half of the nineteenth century, who had been transported to New South Wales: Thomas Holden (or Holding) and Richard Taylor. The corpus also includes letters to Holden from his family. The forces… read more
2008 The origins and development of Shetland dialect in light of dialect contact theories English World-Wide 29:3, pp. 237–267 | Article
Shetland dialect, the northernmost Scots variety, is something of a conundrum. Although most of its features place it at the end of the Northern Scots dialect continuum, some lexical, phonological and structural features resemble characteristics of more southerly Scots dialects; in particular those… read more
2004 Kailyard, conservatism and Scots in the Statistical Accounts of Scotland New Perspectives on English Historical Linguistics: Selected papers from 12 ICEHL, Glasgow, 21–26 August 2002, Kay, Christian, Carole Hough and Irené Wotherspoon (eds.), pp. 163–176 | Article
2003 Review of Hagan (2002): Urban Scots Dialect Writing English World-Wide 24:1, pp. 122–126 | Review
2000 Some suggestions for explaining the origin and development of the definite article in English Pathways of Change: Grammaticalization in English, Fischer, Olga, Anette Rosenbach and Dieter Stein (eds.), pp. 275–310 | Article