Dr. William Lamb (sometimes called Will 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. He was awarded a PhD for his research into the linguistic registers of Scottish Gaelic in 2002 He also helped develop the DASG (Stòras na Gàidhlig) corpus. He is currently working as a lecturer at the University of Edinburgh. He is on the steering committee of Faclair na Gàidhlig since 2012 and the Scottish Gaelic Text Society since 2016.<ref name="page"/> 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, * (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
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