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Maggie Scott
Dr Maggie Scott
postal addressCrescent House (Room 508), The Crescent, Salford, Greater Manchester, UK, M5 4WT .
email addressm.r.scott@salford.ac.uk
telephone55552
website addresshttp://www.espach.salford.ac.uk/page/maggie_scott
Key Memberships
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Member of Faculty: Faculty of Arts, Media & Social Sciences
From September 2008 to September 2010.
Member of School: School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences
From October 2011 to present.
Member of School: School of English, Sociology, Politics & Contemporary History
From September 2008 to October 2011.
Full Member of Research Institute: Institute for Social, Cultural & Policy Research (ISCPR)
From November 2008 to December 2009.
Full Member of Research Centre: Centre for English Literature & Language
From January 2010 to present.
Full Member of Research Centre: Centre for Literary Studies (CLS)
From November 2008 to December 2009.
Profile Summary
My research focuses on onomastics, semantics, and the history and lexicography of English and Scots. As a historical lexicographer I have been involved with a variety of projects including the Oxford English Dictionary, the Dictionary of the Scots Language and the Historical Thesaurus of English.
Key Qualifications
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2010
PGCert Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education Practice and Research (from University of Salford).
2004
PhD Linguistics (from University of Glasgow).
"The Germanic Toponymicon of Southern Scotland: Place-Name Elements and their contribution to the Lexicon and Onomasticon"
1997
MA (Hons) English Language and Literature (from University of Glasgow).
Key Publications
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Refereed Journal Articles
2008
Nov
Scott, M 2008, 'Words, Names and Culture: Place-Names and the Scots Language', Journal of Scottish Name Studies, 2(1), pp.85-98.
2007
Nov
Scott, M 2007, 'Place-names and the Scots Language: the marches of lexical research', Scottish Language, 26(1), pp.1-15.
2006
Oct
Scott, M 2006, 'Previck and Lickprivick: Onomastic connections in south-west Scotland', Nomina, 29(1), pp.115-128.
2000
Jan
Scott, M 2000, ''Bullion' in Scottish Place-Names', Nomina, 23, pp.37-48.
Book Sections
2011
Jan
Pendragon, J & Scott, M 2011, 'A lexical skirmish: OED3 and the vocabulary of swordplay', in: Words in Dictionaries and History ##John Benjamins#Amsterdam#The Netherlands, pp.269-286.
2010
Jan
Scott, M 2010 'Rethinking the Concise Scots Dictionary for the 21st Century', in: Considine, J (ed.), Current Projects in Historical Lexicography, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, pp.113-130.
2008
Mar
Scott, M 2008 'Unsung Etymologies: lexical and onomastic evidence for the influence of Scots on English', in: Marijke, M & Marijke, V D W (eds.), Yesterday's Words: Contemporary, Current and Future Lexicography, Cambridge Scholars Press, Newcastle, UK, pp.187-198.
2004
Jun
Scott, M 2004 'Uses of Scottish place-names as evidence in historical dictionaries', in: Christian, K & Carole, H & Irene, W (eds.), New Perspectives on English Historical Linguistics, John Benjamins, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, pp.213-224.
2003
Mar
Scott, M 2003 'Scottish Place-Names', in: John, C & Jane, S & Derrick, M J (eds.), The Edinburgh Companion to Scots, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, UK, pp.17-30.
Other Publications
2008
Jan
Scott, M 2008, Scottish Place-Names, (Introductory book for the general public (15,000 words)), Black and White, Edinburgh, UK.
Key Presence
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Conference Organisation
2009
Nov
Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland Autumn Day Conference: Names and the North of England (Salford, United Kingdom, November 2009).
Conference Presentations
2010
Jul
Attitudes to Scots: Insights from the Toponymicon (Trends in Toponymy, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, July 2010).
2010
Jun
Reassessing Scots in Place-Names: Some Insights from Human Geography (Perceptions of Place, Nottingham, United Kingdom, June 2010).
2010
Jun
Lexicography and Linguistic Human Rights (5th International Conference on English Historical Lexicography and Lexicology, Oxford, United Kingdom, June 2010).
2009
Sep
Creativity and Identity in Post-Devolution Scots Literature (Workshop: Studying the Representation of Dialect in Literature, Sheffield, United Kingdom, September 2009).
2008
Jun
Revising the Concise Scots Dictionary for the 21st Century (4th International Conference on English Historical Lexicography and Lexicology, Edmonton, Canada, June 2008).
2008
Apr
¿Als sib as seve and riddill¿: Anglo-Scottish linguistic relations and the revision of the Concise Scots Dictionary (Hel-Lex 2: New Approaches in English Historical Lexis, Lammi, Finland, April 2008).
2007
Dec
Words, names and culture: place names and the Scots language (Forum for Research into the Languages of Scotland and Ulster Conference, Perth, United Kingdom, December 2007).
2007
Aug
James Hogg and the Scots Linguistic Continuum: The Language of The Mountain Bard (James Hogg Conference, Stirling, United Kingdom, August 2007).
2007
Aug
Scottish Place-Names and Anglo-Saxon England (Annual Conference of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, London, United Kingdom, August 2007).
2006
Jun
Unsung Etymologies: lexical and onomastic evidence for the influence of Scots on English (3rd International Conference on English Historical Lexicography and Lexicology, Leiden, Netherlands, June 2006).
2005
May
Non-Celtic Place-Names in the Borders: a celebration of the work of May Gordon Williamson (Scottish Place-Name Society Day Conference, Dumfries, United Kingdom, May 2005).
2004
May
Place-names and the Scots Language - Toponyms and Lexis in Southern Scotland (Scottish Place-Name Society Day Conference, Kilmarnock, United Kingdom, May 2004).
Honorary Posts (e.g. Visiting Appointments)
2005
Sep
Honorary Research Fellow (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom, September 2005 to January 2009).
Journal Editorship
2007
Oct
Nomina (October 2007 to October 2013).

Journal of the Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland