Principal Investigator: Dr Ragnhild Ljosland (University of the Highlands and Islands)Duration: 2012
This scoping study prepares for research on Orkney and Shetland dialect grammar, shedding light on the grammar of two dialects which are the products of a language contact situation (15th – 19th century). The study aims to develop a database (corpus) of naturally occurring dialect texts from Orkney and Shetland, which would be digitally searchable. This corpus would then be available for researchers to use as data material for investigating the linguistic structures of the Orkney and Shetland dialects.
http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/documents/project-reports-and-reviews/connected-communities/orkney-and-shetland-dialect-corpus-scoping-study/- dialect | orkney | scots language | shetland
