This is the first full scale attempt to record the diachronic development of this important English language variety and includes extensive essays by some of the foremost international scholars of the Scots language. The book attempts to provide a detailed and technical description of the syntax, phonology, morphology and vocabulary of the language in two main periods: the beginnings to 1700 and from 1700 to the present day. The language's geographical variation both in the past and at the present time are fully documented and the sociolinguistic forces which lie behind linguistic innovation and its transmission provide a principal theme running through the book. WINNER of the Saltire society/National Library of Scotland Scottish Research Book of the Year Award
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A description of a non-standard variety of English traditionally contains a random set of findings illustrating how that variety differs from the Standard variety. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
substantival syntagm, passive syntagm, copulative complement, conjunctional clauses, prepositional syntagm, diphthongal types, isolative form, adjectival syntagm, ingliding diphthongs, verbal syntagm, dialect monographs, pure palatal, upgliding diphthongs, lexical incidence, lexical erosion, rhyme evidence, most common reflex, uninflected plurals, epenthetic schwa, high consonants, diphthongal sound, ould forms, nominal relative clauses, aureate style, present participle constructions Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Old English, Ulster Scots, Middle English, Old Norse, North Mid, Insular Scots, Middle Scots, Northern Scots, East Mid, North Northern, Central Belt, Great Vowel Shift, Sylvester Douglas, Aitken's Law, Black Isle, West Saxon, South Mid, Old French, Ulster English, Irish Gaelic, Middle Dutch, Northern Isles, Highland English, Low German, Scottish Gaelic New!
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substantival syntagm, passive syntagm, copulative complement, conjunctional clauses, prepositional syntagm, diphthongal types, isolative form, adjectival syntagm, ingliding diphthongs, verbal syntagm, dialect monographs, pure palatal, upgliding diphthongs, lexical incidence, lexical erosion, rhyme evidence, most common reflex, uninflected plurals, epenthetic schwa, high consonants, diphthongal sound, ould forms, nominal relative clauses, aureate style, present participle constructions Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Old English, Ulster Scots, Middle English, Old Norse, North Mid, Insular Scots, Middle Scots, Northern Scots, East Mid, North Northern, Central Belt, Great Vowel Shift, Sylvester Douglas, Aitken's Law, Black Isle, West Saxon, South Mid, Old French, Ulster English, Irish Gaelic, Middle Dutch, Northern Isles, Highland English, Low German, Scottish Gaelic New!
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- Lexical Phonology and the History of English (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics) by April McMahon on page 144, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Descriptive Adequacy Of Early Modern English Grammars (Topics in English Linguistics) by Ute Dons in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Essentials of Early English: Old, Middle and Early Modern English by Jeremy J. Smith in Front Matter
- Scottish Communities Abroad In The Early Modern Period (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions, V. 107) by Alexia Grosjean in Front Matter
- A Introduction to Middle English by Simon Horobin in Back Matter
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