Edinburgh: Polygon at Edinburgh, 1999. — 556 p. Unique subject guide to over 20,000 Scots words. Subject-by-subject access to Scots words with definitions in English. Wide-ranging coverage of different subjects including animal and plant life, farming and fishing, food and drink, emotions and character. Introduction commenting on the distinctive aspects and qualities of the...
University of Glasgow, 2018. — 54 p. Despite much research and a great variety of literature on the subject of idioms, the borders of idiomaticity seem very difficult to define. This thesis aims to study how far prototype theory can assist us in the identification of idiom. By gathering and analysing the characteristics of idioms, it is possible to extrapolate gradience where...
University of Glasgow, 2018. — 45 p. Despite much research and a great variety of literature on the subject of idioms, the borders of idiomaticity seem very difficult to define. This thesis aims to study how far prototype theory can assist us in the identification of idiom. By gathering and analysing the characteristics of idioms, it is possible to extrapolate gradience where...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 209 p. This book provides a thorough yet approachable history of the Scots language, a close relative of Standard English with around 1.5 million speakers in Scotland and several thousand in Ireland, according to the 2011 census. Despite the long history of Scots as a language of high literature, it has been somewhat neglected and has often been...
University of Edinburgh, 2012. — 133 p. Perceptual dialectology is dedicated to the formal study of folk linguistic perceptions. Through an amalgamation of social psychology, ethnography, dialectology, sociolinguistics, cultural geography and myriad other fields, perceptual dialectology provides a methodology to gain insight to overt folk language attitudes, knowledge of...
The Mercat Press, 1983. — 84 p. David Dorward's book on Scottish place-names is a fascinating volume that offers insight and intrigue into the myriad of wonderful place-names found across Scotland. Much more than simply a dictionary of place-names, Dorward makes the subject accessible to the general reader, with explanations of hundreds of names that are clear and concise, and...
Lincom, 2005. — 76 p. — (Languages of the world: Materials 242). This book is intended as a concise and up-to-date introduction to Modern Scots, much in the vein of the classical, but now somewhat outdated textbooks by Grant & Main-Dixon (1921) and Wilson (1926). Scots is often regarded as one end of a dialect continuum that has English Standard English at the opposite end and...
Multilingual Matters, 1998. — 208 p. Although much work has been published on certain aspects of translation into Scots, this timely book is the first comprehensive account of Scots translations from the fifteenth to the twentieth century. From the period before Gavin Douglas's translation of the Aeneid to John Byrne's recent adaptation of Gogol's The Government Inspector, this...
Edinburgh University Press, 2006. — 320 p. The Edinburgh Companion to Scots is a comprehensive introduction to the study of older and present-day Scots language. The aim of the volume is to explain and illustrate methods of research into Scots and Scottish English. Topics include the grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation of contemporary speech in Scotland, and the investigation...
Edinburgh University Press, 2015. — 192 p. People have been writing in Scots for over 700 years, but the spelling of Scots has never been fixed, with many words, like buik, buke, book, appearing in a variety of forms. Drawing on the Corpus of Modern Scottish Writing, this volume provides a comprehensive survey of the spelling system of Older and Modern Scots, illustrating how...
Edinburgh University Press, 1997. — 294 p. — (Scottish Language and Literature). This practical introduction to ways of using theories of language to explore different aspects of Scottish literature includes material on: varieties of Scots and Scottish English; linguistic approaches to literary studies; the grammar of texts; vocabulary; metaphor; poetic metre; language in use;...
Luath Press, 2013. — 152 p. Dealing with grammar in a modern way, with modern terminology, this book gives readers an understanding of the way language works. Providing readers with the vocabulary to think about and discuss Scots, English and other Modern languages, Modren Scots Grammar fits with the Curriculum for Excellence in that it provides the grounding for readers to...
Edinburgh University Press, 2006. — 320 p. The Edinburgh Companion to Scots is a comprehensive introduction to the study of older and present-day Scots language. The aim of the volume is to explain and illustrate methods of research into Scots and Scottish English. Topics include the grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation of contemporary speech in Scotland, and the investigation...
Illustrations by Bob Dewar. — Edinburgh, UK: Luath Press Ltd, 2012. — 158 p. A hilarious and often wise collection of Scots saying straight from the mouths of the Grannies of Glasgow. With each snippet accompanied by a straightforward English translation, this is your introduction to the unique wisdom of the 'Glesca Granny'. The topics touching the different aspects of life,...
2013. — 33 p. Version 1.4.1 Articles Verbs Nouns Pronouns Adjectives Adverbs Prepositions Conjunctions Numbers Time Exclamations and 'markers' References and further reading
Luath Press Ltd, 2002. — 346 p. Аудиозаписи к учебнику: /file/1612726/ /file/1612726/ This work is suitable as an introductory course or for those interested in re-acquainting themselves with the language of childhood and grandparents. The book assumes no prior knowledge on the reader's part. Starting from the most basic vocabulary and constructions, the reader is guided...
HarperCollins UK, 2006. — 292 p. — (Collins Gem). — ISBN10: 0007224125, ISBN13: 978-0007224128. With words and phrases from both literary and everyday language, this is the perfect wee dictionary of Scots for native and non-native speakers alike. First published in 1995, the Collins Gem Scots Dictionary is by far the most popular guide to the language of today?s Scotland, with...
Multilingual Matters, 2004. — 280 p. — (Topics in Translation). — ISBN10: 1853597015. — ISBN13: 978-1853597015. Not only has the period of the past seventy years been the richest for literary translation into Scots since the sixteenth century, but it can claim to be the richest in terms of the quantity of work and the range of languages and genres translated. This collection of...
2008 (электронное издание) 90 с. In this paper the nature of Scots orthography, especially that of the 18th and 19th centuries, is examined along with some of the more recent well–known or exhaustive suggestions for a normative orthography. The suitability of various traditional practices and the various suggestions made by others will be discussed as regards the establishing...
John Benjamins, 2013. — 178 pages. — (Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture). — ISBN: 978-90-272-7134-1 In this book it is examined how the Scots language has been talked and written about in a variety of contexts in the past twenty years. I do this by presenting a textual analysis of various ‘official’ written documents produced in connection with Scots, and of...
Black & White Publishing, 2008. — 103 p.
"Say It in Scots" is a series of pocket books designed to inform and entertain the reader about the wonderful, rich and varied language of Scots.The people of Scotland have a reputation for being many things - honest, dour, courageous, argumentative and sometimes even mean. Very often, these characteristics are opposite sides of the same...
Black & White Publishing, 2008. — 103 p.
"Say It in Scots" is a series of pocket books designed to inform and entertain the reader about the wonderful, rich and varied language of Scots.The people of Scotland have a reputation for being many things - honest, dour, courageous, argumentative and sometimes even mean. Very often, these characteristics are opposite sides of the same...
Black & White Publishing, 2008. — 102 p.
"Say It in Scots" is a series of pocket books designed to inform and entertain the reader about the wonderful, rich and varied language of Scots.Scotland is a country full of beasties, and for every bird, animal and insect that you see as you travel through towns, farmland, mountains, glens, rivers, lochs and sea, the Scots language will...
Black & White Publishing, 2008. — 102 p.
"Say It in Scots" is a series of pocket books designed to inform and entertain the reader about the wonderful, rich and varied language of Scots.Scotland is a country full of beasties, and for every bird, animal and insect that you see as you travel through towns, farmland, mountains, glens, rivers, lochs and sea, the Scots language will...
Black & White Publishing, 2008. — 107 p.
"Say It in Scots" is a series of pocket books designed to inform and entertain the reader about the wonderful, rich and varied language of Scots.Like the Scots language, the Scottish weather is rich in variety, full of lights and shades, drama, romance and beauty. We have snow in winter, sunshine in summer, strong winds in spring and...
Black & White Publishing, 2008. — 107 p.
"Say It in Scots" is a series of pocket books designed to inform and entertain the reader about the wonderful, rich and varied language of Scots.Like the Scots language, the Scottish weather is rich in variety, full of lights and shades, drama, romance and beauty. We have snow in winter, sunshine in summer, strong winds in spring and...
Black & White Publishing, 2008. — 107 p.
The Scots language is a world of wonderful, historic and evocative words, full of a rich variety that can fit any occasion. And where better to find this use of Scots than in the land itself. In Scottish Place Names Maggie Scott of Scottish Language Dictionaries takes you around the country from Dumfries to Shetland to explain the...
Black & White Publishing, 2008. — 107 p.
The Scots language is a world of wonderful, historic and evocative words, full of a rich variety that can fit any occasion. And where better to find this use of Scots than in the land itself. In Scottish Place Names Maggie Scott of Scottish Language Dictionaries takes you around the country from Dumfries to Shetland to explain the...
Saltire Society, 2002. —160 p.
Purves presents Scots as a separate language in its own right, resisting the often prevalent notion that Scots is merely a dialect of English, and gives a coherent overview of the distinctive grammatical and idiomatic usage of Scots.
In this revised and extended edition of his controversial study, David Purves argues that Scots' lack of...
Luath Press Ltd, 2002. — 346 p.
This work is suitable as an introductory course or for those interested in re-acquainting themselves with the language of childhood and grandparents. The book assumes no prior knowledge on the reader's part. Starting from the most basic vocabulary and constructions, the reader is guided step-by-step through Scots vocabulary and the subtleties of...
Saltire Society, 2002. —160 p.
Purves presents Scots as a separate language in its own right, resisting the often prevalent notion that Scots is merely a dialect of English, and gives a coherent overview of the distinctive grammatical and idiomatic usage of Scots.
In this revised and extended edition of his controversial study, David Purves argues that Scots' lack of...
Luath Press Ltd, 2002. — 346 p.
This work is suitable as an introductory course or for those interested in re-acquainting themselves with the language of childhood and grandparents. The book assumes no prior knowledge on the reader's part. Starting from the most basic vocabulary and constructions, the reader is guided step-by-step through Scots vocabulary and the subtleties of...
Scottish Cultural Press, 2009. — 80 p.
Doric for Swots is intended as a course for the more advanced student. The extracts used are drawn from the golden treasury of Northeast literature, covering several regional areas and many different periods of time.
For those wishing to enhance their understanding of Doric, three other books are available: Teach Yourself Doric (A Course...
Scottish Cultural Press, 2009. — 80 p.
Doric for Swots is intended as a course for the more advanced student. The extracts used are drawn from the golden treasury of Northeast literature, covering several regional areas and many different periods of time.
For those wishing to enhance their understanding of Doric, three other books are available: Teach Yourself Doric (A Course...
The Ullans Press, 2012. — 46 p.
This work is based on the programmes and collections of the Ulster-Scots Language
Society, and taken forward by the USAIG in partnership. Extracts from Philip Robinson's
Ulster-Scots: A Grammar of the Traditional Written and Spoken Language, 2nd edition
(Ullans Press, 2007) and James Fenton's The Hamely Tongue, 3rd edition (Ullans Press,...
Cambridge University Press, 1921. — 500 p.
The book is divided into three parts. Part I describes the sounds of Modern Scots with examples of their use written in the alphabet of the International Phonetic Association. Part II contrasts Scots Grammar with Standard English usage and gives copious illustrations from Modern Scottish Literature. Part III consists of a series of...
(место издания не указано, электронный документ) 2005. — 300 p. Everyday speech in lowland Scotland varies from speaker to speaker. This is often referred to as a speech continuum. This continuum ranges from Traditional Scots, often called Braid Scots or Scotch, the Doric, the Buchan Claik or the Moray Claik and Lallans (Lowlands) – to Scottish Standard Englsh (p.97) Thus many...
University of Aberdeen, 2002. — vi., 222 p. — (Varieties of English Around the World T8). The dialect of North-East Scotland, one of the most distinctive and best preserved in the country, survives as both a proudly maintained mark of local identity and the vehicle for a remarkable regional literature. The present study, after placing the dialect in its historical, geographical...
Edinburgh University Press, 2007. — 192 p.
The Scots dialects of northern Scotland, Orkney and Shetland are among the most traditional varieties of ‘English’, exhibiting features not current elsewhere for centuries. Until recently, they were spoken in communities whose traditional occupations have encouraged the equation of speech with local identity. They have all also been...
Oxford, 2013. — 368 p. This book offers an innovative, corpus-driven approach to historical legal discourse. It is the first monograph to examine textual standardization patterns in legal and administrative texts on the basis of lexical bundles, drawing on a comprehensive corpus of medieval and early modern legal texts. The book's focus is on legal language in Scotland, where...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 282 p. This is the first full account of the making of John Jamieson's Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language. The dictionary was published in two volumes in 1808, with a two-volume Supplement following in 1825. Lists of Scots words had been compiled before, but Jamieson's was the first complete dictionary of the language. It was a...
Cambridge University Press, 1921. - 500 p.
The book is divided into three parts. Part I describes the sounds of Modern Scots with examples of their use written in the alphabet of the International Phonetic Association. Part II contrasts Scots Grammar with Standard English usage and gives copious illustrations from Modern Scottish Literature. Part III consists of a series of...
Scottish Cultural Press, 1994. — 88 p. Учебник одного из диалектов скотса (англо-шотландского языка). This Doric primer appears at a time when the considerable threat to the North-east tongue seems to be matched by a determination that it should not be allowed to die without a struggle. The language used here is, generally speaking, the lively, if somewhat diluted, form of...
Совершенно жуткое название для раздела... Необходимо переименовать в "Шотландский (кельтский) язык" хотя бы. Термин "скотс" в русской лингвистике не используется вовсе.
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