CNS Seminar Shetland
Professor Viveka Velupillai, from the University of Giessen will deliver a lecture called L枚nabracks and affrugs of contact and change.
Professor Viveka Velupillai, from the University of Giessen will show how Shetland dialect fits within the larger field of 鈥榗ontact linguistics鈥�. 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. CNS are collaborating with Shetland Museum and Archives on this occasion. Each year Shetland Museum and Archives commemorates a Shetland scholar in a memorial lecture. This year the Shetland writer James Stout Angus, author of A Glossary of the Shetland Dialect, is being commemorated.
The lecture will be on Friday at Shetland Museum and Archives Doors open at 6.30pm for a 7.00pm start.