Publications

• Thoms G, Adger D, Heycock C, Jamieson E, Smith J. (2025). Explaining microvariation using the Tolerance Principle: plugging the amn’t gap. Journal of Linguistics, 61(2):369-396.
• Jamieson, E., Smith, J., Adger, D., Heycock, C. & Thoms, G. (2025). ‘When intuitions (don’t) fail’: combining syntax and sociolinguistics in the analysis of Scots. English Language and Linguistics, 29(1), 1–34.
• Thoms, G., Adger, D., Heycock, C., Jamieson, E., & Smith, J. (2023). English contracted negation revisited: Evidence from varieties of Scots. Language 99(4), 726-759.
• Thoms, G., Adger, D., Heycock, C. and Smith, J.  (2019) Syntactic variation and auxiliary contraction: the surprising case of Scots. Language 95:3.
• Mapping the Diversity of Dialect. In the summer 2021 edition of Teaching English, the magazine of the National Association for the Teaching of English https://www.nate.org.uk/publications/teaching-english/.

Selected conference presentations

• Introducing the Scots Syntax Atlas. Workshop on Accessing English dialect syntax. LSA Annual Meeting, New Orleans, 2020
• Explaining microvariation using the Tolerance Principle. GLOW 43, Berlin/online. 2020
• When intuitions (don’t) fail: Combining syntax and sociolinguistics in the analysis of Scots.  BICLCE, Bamberg. 2019
• The curious development of have-raising. GLOW 41, Budapest. 2018
• Cliticization or affixation: English contracted negation revisited. LSA Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City. 2018
• Shades of Negative Concord in Scots Dialects. LAGB, University of Kent. 2017.