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ONE LANGUAGE OR TWO?

A one-day conference in the A.K. Bell Memorial Library, Perth, on
Saturday 3 December 2005.

10.00. Imagining a Language, Imagining a Grammar: Social
Constructs and Language Distinctiveness - Robert Millar

10.40. Scots and English: one grammar or two? John M. Kirk

11.20. Coffee.

11.40. How many languages is Scots? Derrick McClure

12.20. Annual General Meeting of the Forum for Research in
the Languages of Scotland and Ulster.

Agenda.

1. Chairman's Report

2. Treasurer's Report

3. Eighth International Conference on the Languages of
Scotland and Ulster, Islay 2006: report on plans

4. AOB.

1.30. Lunch.

2.30. Public Policy and Scots in Northern Ireland - Gavin
Falconer

3.10. [On Gaelic: title TBA: Roibeard Ó Maolalaigh

3.50. Coffee.

4.10. General discussion.

5.00. Close of conference.

The conference fee of £30 (£25 unwaged) will include morning
and afternoon coffee, and will entitle the participant to a year's
membership of the Forum.

Contact J. Derrick McClure, Dept. of English, King's College,
University of Aberdeen, Old Aberdeen AB24 2UB.
j.d.mcclure@abdn.ac.uk