Will Lamb
For the baseball player, see Will Lamb (baseball).
| Will Lamb | |
|---|---|
| Born | Baltimore |
| Residence | Edinburgh |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | linguistics, Celtic studies |
| Institutions | University of Edinburgh |
| Known for | work in Scottish Gaelic linguistics |
Will Lamb (also known as William Lamb) is a linguist who was born in Baltimore and came to Scotland in 1996 to do an MSc in Scottish Gaelic at the University of Edinburgh.[1] He was awarded a PhD for his research into the linguistic registers of Scottish Gaelic in 2002[1] and published two books based on the first ever tagged speech corpus of Scottish Gaelic.[1] He subsequently taught Gaelic and music at the Benbecula campus of Lews Castle College.[1] He is currently working as a lecturer at the University of Edinburgh.
Publications
- (1999) A diachronic account of Gaelic News-speak: The development and expansion of a register in Scottish Gaelic Studies 19
- (2001) Scottish Gaelic München: LINCOM EUROPA 2001, ISBN 3-89586-408-0
- (2005) Toward a corpus of spontaneous spoken Scottish Gaelic JM Kirk/DP Ó Baoill (eds) in Legislation, Literature and Sociolinguistics: Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, and Scotland Belfast: Queens University Press
- (2006) The Noun Phrase in Scottish Gaelic Speech and Writing in Cànan & Cultar / Language & Culture: Rannsachadh na Gàidhlig 3, Edinburgh: Dunedin Academic Press
- (2008) Scottish Gaelic Speech and Writing: Register Variation in an Endangered Language Belfast Queens University Press ISBN 978-0-85389-895-5
References
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