User:Buidhe/William Lamb (professor)

William Lamb is a lecturer at the University of Edinburgh.

He received a master's degree from in 1999 and a He was an External Examiner for Sabhal Mòr Ostaig between 2013 and 2017 and was involved in Scottish Gaelic spelling reform as a subject specialist reviewer for the Scottish Qualifications Authority in 2011 and 2012. He was the PI for a Napier grant to develop an "On-Line Part-of-Speech (POS) Tagger and Gold-Standard corpus of Scottish Gaelic." He also helped develop the DASG (Stòras na Gàidhlig) corpus.

He is currently on the steering committee of Faclair na Gàidhlig since 2012 and the Scottish Gaelic Text Society since 2016.

Publications

 * Lamb, William. "A diachronic account of Gaelic news-speak: the development and expansion of a register." Scottish Gaelic Studies 19 (1999): 141-71.
 * Lamb, William. Scottish Gaelic speech and writing: Register variation in an endangered language. Vol. 16. Belfast: Cló Ollscoil na Banríona, 2008.