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Northern and insular Scots / Robert McColl Millar. [electronic resource]
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Millar, Robert McColl, 1966- author.
- Series:
- Dialects of English.
- Dialects of English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Dialects--Scotland.
- English language.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vii, 178 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Other Title:
- Northern & Insular Scots
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Scots dialects of northern Scotland Orkney and Shetland are among the most traditional varieties of English. Northern and Insular Scots provides an approachable description of the phonological structural and lexical natures of these varieties and a history of the varieties in relation to the areas in which they are spoken.
- Contents:
- Phonetics and phonology
- Morphosyntax
- Lexis
- History, including changes in progress
- Survey of previous works and annotated bibliography
- Texts
- Shetland
- Orkney
- Caithness
- Black Isle
- Mid-northern B
- Mid-northern A
- South Northern.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 142-148) and index.
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
- ISBN:
- 0-7486-5152-7
- 9786610762491
- 1-280-76249-7
- 0-7486-2996-3
- OCLC:
- 476039615
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