Sociolinguistic parallels across Europe: focus on lowland Scotland and the Eastern Slavic countries
In: Languages and linguistics
Introduction -- What Is Similar and What Is Different in the Social Histories of Scots and Ukrainian? -- The Early Soviet Experience of "Ukrainization" as a Reference-point for Today's Scots Language Activists -- The Case of East Slavic Languages in Sociolinguistic Studies of Scots (a Comparative Approach) -- A Belarusian Perspective on Scots and Its Social History -- An Issue of Language Policy for the Post-Soviet Economies: the Case of Ukraine and Belarus -- A Scottish Trace in Russian Toponymy (Focus on: Two Rural Place-names) -- Hamilton-Khomutov: a Toponymic Dimension of a Russified Scottish Family name -- An Index of the Russian Place-names of "Overt" and "Covert" Scottish Origins -- An Alternative Perspective on Early Scandinavian Borrowing into Russian (Introducing Shetlandic Evidence)