Modern Scots: An Analytical Survey

ISBN-13: 9781474416870 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 248 str.

Robert McColl Millar

Opis

This textbook overview of Modern Scots provides a description and analysis of the language covering lexical, phonological and structural patterns. It presents evidence for the diversity of the language through illustrations from newly collected fieldwork material.

Spis treści

Some preliminaries; Chapter 1: Scots: languages and cultures, peoples and lands; Chapter 2: Resources; Chapter 3: Phonology; Chapter 4: Lexis; Chapter 5: Structure: the Grammar of Modern Scots; Chapter 6: Scots used creatively: literature and beyond; Chapter 7: Chapter 7: The Sociolinguistics of Scots; Chapter 8: Chapter 8: Scots: a once and future language?; References