McClure J. Derrick. Scots and its Literature

John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1995. — 224 p. — (Varieties of English Around the World G14).Among the topics treated in this collection are the status of Scots as a national language; the orthography of Scots; the actual and potential degree of standardisation of Scots; the debt of the vocabulary of Scots to Gaelic; the use of Scots in fictional dialogue; and the development of Scots as a poetic medium in the modern period. All fourteen articles, written and published between 1979 and 1988, have been extensively revised and updated.
J. Derrick McClure is a senior lecturer in the English Department at Aberdeen University and a well-known authority on the history of Scots.Lowland Scots: an ambivalent national tongue (1984)
The concept of Standard Scots (1979)
The debate on Scots orthography (1985)
Scottis, Inglis, Suddroun: language labels and language attitudes (1981)
The Pinkerton syndrome (1985)
What Scots owes to Gaelic (1986)
Scots in dialogue: some uses and implications (1983)
Linguistic characterisation in Rob Roy (1983)
Language varieties in The Three Perils of Man (1988)
Scots and English in Annals of the Parish and The Provost (1979)
The language on The Entail (1981)
Language and genre in Allan Ramsay’s 1721 Poems (1987)
Scots and its use in recent poetry (1979)
The synthesisers of Scots (1981)