Robert McColl Millar

Robert McColl Millar is Professor in Linguistics and Scottish Language at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. Born in 1966 in Elderslie (of 'Braveheart' fame) in the west of Scotland, he has been obsessed with language for as long as he can remember. A native speaker of Scots and from a Gaelic-speaking background, language variation and change and the sociology of language are never far from his thoughts. A graduate of Glasgow and London Universities, he has held academic posts in Canada, Finland, Austria and Norway. He is married to Sandra, a schoolteacher, who is originally from Luxembourg. They have a daughter, Mairi, born in 2008.