Email RIS file
Bookmark
Report an Issue

Northern and insular Scots / Robert McColl Millar

Author
Millar, Robert McColl, 1966-
Published
Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2007]
Copyright Date
©2007
Physical Description
1 online resource (vii, 178 pages) : illustrations, maps
Access Online

Availability

I Want It
I Want It

Finding items...

Series
Language Note
English.
Contents
COVER; COPYRIGHT; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Phonetics and phonology; 3 Morphosyntax; 4 Lexis; 5 History, including changes in progress; 6 Survey of previous works and annotated bibliography; 7 Texts; Index.
Summary
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 affected by contact with Gaelic, or Norse, or both. In recent years, however, the decline of traditional industries has been matched by the discovery of oil off their coasts, encouraging in-migration of speakers of many varieties of English and other languages. How well have these varieties maintained their traditional natures at the start of the 21st century? Northern and Insular Scots provides: *An approachable description of the phonological, structural and lexical natures of these varieties*A history of the varieties in relation to the areas in which they are spoken*Examples of the language of native speakers*An annotated bibliography which points the reader towards more specialised works. Northern and Insular Scots provides: An approachable description of the phonological, structural and lexical natures of these varieties A history of the varieties in relation to the areas in which they are spoken Examples of the language of native speakers An annotated bibliography which points the reader towards more specialised works.
Subject(s)
ISBN
9780748629961 (electronic bk.)
0748629963 (electronic bk.)
9780748651528
0748651527
0748623167
9780748623167
9786610762491
661076249X
1280762497
9781280762499
9780748623167 (hbk.)
0748623167 (hbk.)
0748623175 (pbk.)
9780748623174 (pbk.)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 142-148) and index.
View MARC record | catkey: 43160332