Shetland Museum and Archives Memorial Lecture: Lönabracks and affrugs of contact and change

Shetland Museum and Archives Memorial Lecture: Lönabracks and affrugs of contact and change

Friday, November 18th 2016 7:00pm

Each year Shetland Museum and Archives commemorates a Shetland scholar in a memorial lecture.This year we honour the Shetland writer James Stout Angus.

Viveka Velupillai, from the University of Giessen, will show how Shetland dialect fits within the larger field of ‘contact linguistics’. She will describe her study of the Shetland language pre-oil. She will show how she analyses the Shetland data, and discuss from a global perspective some features of pre-oil Shetland which are currently eroding.

Doors open at 6.30pm for a 7.00pm start.

Tickets are available now, priced £3.50, from www.thelittleboxoffice.com/smaa or from Shetland Museum and Archives reception on 01595 741562

Category: Lectures