Talks and presentations

Pragmatism, patriotism and presbyterianism: Use of Scots in written correspondence during the Union debates (1689–1707)

March 17, 2021

Conference talk, Intra-Writer Variation in Historical Sociolinguistics Conference (Historical Sociolinguistics Network- HiSoN 21), Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (online)

Political, religious or otherwise? The presence and use of Scots in correspondence at the turn of the century

February 17, 2021

Conference talk, Symposium for 17th Century Scottish Literature Conference (SSCSL 21), University of Glasgow (online)

Politics, Pragmatism and Persistence: Written Scots during the Union debates in personal correspondence

January 08, 2021

Conference talk, North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics Conference (NARNiHS 21), Online

Variability in written Scots during the course of the Union debates (1689-1707)

November 26, 2020

Conference talk, Northern Early Modern Network Conference (NEMN 21), Edinburgh, UK

Historical Sociolinguistics

November 18, 2019

Guest Lecture, MSc in Sociolinguistic Research Design, University of Edinburgh, UK

A guest lecture on ‘What is Historical Sociolinguistics’ for Masters students undertaking the MSc programme at the University of Edinburgh

Pragmatic, Patriotic or Politic?: Use of Scots vs English during the Union of 1707 and 2012 Independence Referendum Compared

September 04, 2019

Invited Speaker, Europa-Universitat Flensburg, Flensburg, Germany

Invited speaker for the Linguistics of Smaller and Regional Languages Research Colloquium at the Europa-Universitat Flensburg.

The Effects of Socio-Political Change on Historical Scots

August 27, 2018

Conference talk, 20th International Conference of English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL XX), Edinburgh, UK

The rise of Scottish Standard English: A Statistical Analysis of a Morphological Variable

December 14, 2015

Conference talk, Linguistics Society of New Zealand Conference, Dunedin, New Zealand