Bibliography — Classification Index

Text in colloquial South Uist Gaelic, recorded 1960-1964. Includes a Glossarial Index complementing A. McDonald’s Gaelic words and expressions from South Uist and Eriskay (BILL 1531).

Sep. publ. Inbhir Nis: Club Leabhar, 1972.
Engl. transl. The furrow behind me. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1962.

Rev. by
Gearóid Mac Eoin, in ZCP 33 (1974), pp. 344-346.
R. A. Q. Skerrett, in StC 8-9 (1973-1974), pp. 340-341.

Considers the development of diminutive suffixes -én, -ín, -án in Scottish Gaelic.

Provides articulatory analysis of the sound inventory of the speech of Greater Bernera, Isle of Lewis.

The particles used in the formation of the periphrastic comparative in all varieties of E Gaelic derive from a common source: pres. nas < OIr. a n-as; past/cond. na ba < < OIr. a mba.

Phonology, morphophonemics, morphology and syntax, phonemic transcriptions of 10 texts with English translations.

Provides a phonological description of the speech of Mary Stewart (1894-1972), a native speaker from the parish of Blair Atholl.

Repr. in Dùthchas nan Gàidheal, pp. 120-130.

Argues that the diversity of titles used for the Hebridean rulers (and others) during this period is a literary device and is not interpreted politically.

[0. Some phonetic features]; 1. Various individual word types; 2. Elision of unstressed vowels; 3. The /r/ phoneme. Incl. a text phonetically spelt from Rannoch with translation. With map.

Discusses several words from the so-called ‘Hopeman Gaelic’ (a fishermen’s slang based on Scottish Gaelic).

Discusses a song composed in the Gaelic dialect of Hilton, Easter Ross; with analysis of linguistic features.

Discusses nine features of this dialect (as noted by Francis C. Diack, 1922), which are compared with the data in SGDS in order to establish its position among Scottish Gaelic dialects.

A description of the Gaelic of Hilton of Cadboll and Shandwick. Includes word indexes.

1. saucer (sàsar, flat); 2. hair (of the head) (gruag, falt); 3. oystercatcher (trìlleachan, brìdean); 4. smoke (from the chimney) (toit, ceò); 5. porridge (brochan, lite); 6. blue (of the sky) (liath, gorm); 7. grey (of hair) (glas, liath); 8. Sunday (Di-Dòmhnaich, Latha na Sàbaid) – all with corresponding maps.

Text, with English translation. In Appendix: William Ross’s lampoon on Arran Gaelic [a poem (9 verses) containing numerous Arran features; with English translation and notes].

Study based on 11 linguistic features: 1. Treatment of initial sr; 2. Treatment of postvocalic broad rt; 3. Treatment of stressed a before original long m; 4. Treatment of Old Irish -ig; 5. Treatment of postvocalic broad mh + consonant; 6. Gu robh math agad normal for ‘thank you’; 7. A’ tabhann normal for ‘barking of dog’; 8. Mothaich verb normally used for ‘feel’; 9. Drùin verb normally used for ‘close’; 10. Ballan normal for ‘cow’s teat’; 11. Ag èireachd.

Focuses on nineteen distinctive features of the Strathspey dialect:

1. Dropping of final unstressed vowel; 2. Dropping of vowel in -as ending; 3. Dropping of -adh ending; 4. He/it (m) (emphatic form) [ScG eise]; 5. They (pronunciation) [ScG aid]; 6. Independent future ending [-(e)as]; 7 & 8: Preaspiration; 9. Breaking of long é; 10. bh vocalized to u; 11. Final slender nn pronounced as ng; 12. Broad s becomes z (when preceded by n); 13. f becomes b (when preceded by m; 14. Playing [ScG. a’ cluich]; 15. Children [ScG cloinn]; 16. Down(wards) [ScG a-bhàn]; 17. East(wards) and west(wards) [ScG sìos, suas]; 18. (Fresh) water [bùrn]; 19. Boy [ScG praitseach].

On the compensatory development of /nː/ in the dialect of Bernera, Isle of Lewis.

in St. Kilda Gaelic, with phonetic transcription.

[1.] Evidence for Gaelic speech in Banffshire in 1881; [2.] Evidence for the Gaelic dialect of Banffshire. Features with corresponding maps discussed incl.: 1. -am, -om; 2. -all, -oll, -ann, -onn; 3./4. Preaspiration before t and p; 5. -adh > Ø; 6. bh > u; 7. Slender -nn > [ŋʹ]; 8. -m + f- > -m + b-; 9. -n + s- > -n + z-; 10. -n + ʃ> -n + ʤ; 11. ‘east’ (sìos), ‘west’ (suas); 12. down(wards) (a-bhàn); [3.] Conclusions.

Claims that the development of preaspiration, epenthesis and vowel lengthening is an attempt to maintain syllabic length following the disappearance of geminated consonants. Also includes some discussion of geminated stops in Donegal Irish, -rt sequence in Scottish Gaelic, cluster and svarabhakti in Manx.

On the opposition between original lenited and unlenited l, and the retention of the velarised alveolar lateral.

Refers to East Sutherland Gaelic.

On the amalgamation of Lewis and Harris dialectal features in the Gaelic of Cape Breton. Based on the study of the speech of two informants from An Cladach-a-Tuath, Victoria County, Nova Scotia.

Study based on Easter Ross Gaelic.

Discusses the weakening and deletion of the sounds represented by (i.e. [ŋ] and [ɲ]).

Collected 1978 in Badninish, Dornoch, Sutherland.

1. Na feadhainn leis am bu leis e; 2.-chd; 3. uile.

1. ui : [uː]; 2. [au] : [ai]; 3. ainneart; 4. ceannard; 5. bínne, línne; cunnart.

Discusses the distribution of the various words used for ‘flower’: flùr, dìthean and sìthean.

Discusses the development of unstressed -a(i)bh, -amh to -i and -u in Scottish Gaelic. Cf. Roibeard Ó Maolalaigh in Rannsachadh na Gàidhlig (2002), 61-74.

1. Work terminology and technical terms; 2. Play terms; 3. Movement; 4. Exclamations, retorts, endearments; 5. Proper names; Character (mental and physical); 7. Other descriptive terms; 8. Idiomatic usages and descriptive phrases; 9. Some metaphorical expressions; 10. Proverbial and other sayings; rhymes.

1. Pronunciation spellings; 2 Phonology: vocalic features; 3. Phonology: consonantal features; 4. Morpho-phonological features; 5. Morphology: specific forms (benact, sen, sí).

Particularly on the prosodic qualities of the epenthetic vowel in the Barra dialect.

Words and expressions from the speech of two informants from Jura (cf. George Jones, in SGS 20 (2000), pp. 201-211).

Recorded c. 1920 in the Braemar area by Francis C. Diack. Phonetic transcription, English translation and discussion of dialect features.

On some rare phonological features: l > w; n > m; n > w.

Analysis based on data from the Glendale Skye dialect.

I. Phonology. II. Morphology. III. Lexicon. IV. Syntax.

Description of the Gaelic of Easter Ross.

A word-list collected from Aoidhmín Mac Gréagóir’s folklore material published in An tUltach, 1927-1928.

Studies the language of the last remaining pockets of East Sutherland Gaelic (located in Embo, Brora and Golspie).

On Gaelic language and culture in Strathpey, including a brief description of the dialect and a discussion of the reasons for its decline.

Rev. by
Emrys Evans, in ZCP 41 (1986), pp. 353-355.

Study based on the dialect of informants mainly from Shandwick, Balintore, and Hilton-of-Cadboll, all in Ross-shire; collected intermittently between 1967 and 1983. Texts presented with phonetic transcription and translation.

In Appendix: 1. An Linnet Mòr elegy [composed 1843 by Arthur Ross from Loans of Rarichie in the Fearn district]; 2. Elegy on Rev. A. MacAdam [†1817; from a gravestone in Nigg Old Churchyard].

Vol. I: Introductory essays [Eric P. Hamp, ‘Background and European setting’, 3-23; William Gillies, ‘The history of the Survey’, 25-47; Cathair Ó Dochartaigh, ‘The Scottish Gaelic dialect question’, 51-66; id. ‘Survey fieldwork’, 67-79; id. ‘Informants and locations’, 80-102; id. ‘Fair copies and publication’, 103-107; id. ‘Phonetic symbolization’, 108-144]. 1997. xiv + 178 pp.
Vol. II: The phonetic record, items 1–226 (abair-coille).
Vol. III: The phonetic record, items 227–452 (coimheach-gaire).
Vol. IV: The phonetic record, items 453–675 (gairm-òr).
Vol. V: The phonetic record, items 676–895 (pac-ursainn).

Rev. by
A. J. Hughes, in SAM 17/2 (1998), pp. 228-229.

Edinburgh, NLS, MS 21000. Appendix 6 (pp. 336-345): Later additions in Gaelic [dated c. 1370–c. 1430 and in a Scots-based orthography]; transcription, translation and commentary by Ronald Black.

Rev. by

Priscilla Bawcutt, in Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 96/2 (Jun., 2), pp. 296-298.
Paul Binski, in EHR 119/481 (Apr., 2004), pp. 439-441.
Cristina Dondi, in JEH 53/2 (Apr., 2002), pp. 359-360.
Cynthia J. Neville, in Canadian Journal of History 37/2 (Aug., 2002), pp. 330-332.
W. D. H. Sellar, in The Scottish historical review 82/2 (Oct., 2003), pp. 296-297.
Anne Rudloff Stanton, in Speculum 77/3 (Jul., 2002), pp. 934-936.
Roger S. Wieck, in The Medieval Review (2002), pp. 199-202.

2nd ed., with corr. and updated bibliography, 1989.
3rd rev. ed., with an additional chapter, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 2006.

Rev. by
William Gillies, in ZCP 58 (2011), pp. 337-341 (3. ed.).
Pierre-Yves Lambert, in ÉtC 16 (1979), pp. 305-307 (1st ed.).
Jean Le Dû, in ÉtC 38 (2012), pp. 339-340 (3. ed.).
Diarmuid Ó Sé, in Éigse 36 (2008), pp. 221-227 (3. ed.).
Karl Horst Schmidt, in IF 81 (1976), pp. 380-382 (1st ed.).

Contains large lexicon, pp. 273-425.

Rev. by
James W. Gleasure, in ZCP 45 (1992), pp. 319-323.
Jean Le Dû, in ÉtC 30 (1994), pp. 335-338.
R. A. Q. Skerrett, in StC 24-25 (1989-1990), pp. 230-231.

Lexical and phonological features with accompanying maps.

Rev. by
Cathair Ó Dochartaigh, in ScotL 20 (2001), pp. 99-101.
Roibeard Ó Maolalaigh, in SGS 21 (2003), pp. 255-268.