A Scots Grammar: Scots Grammar and Usage

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The Saltire Society, 2002 - Foreign Language Study - 160 pages
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.
 

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Contents

Scots Idiom
11
The Articles
17
Pronouns
27
Adjectives
35
Verbal Forms
47
Adverbs
73
Conjunctions
83
Prefixes and Suffixes
97
List of Irregular Verbs
103
The Spelling of Scots
109
Scots Language Society
121
References
159
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Common terms and phrases

ablo aboot abuin adjectives Adverbs afore ahint alang anither asyde atwein auld auxiliary verbs awfu bairn blaw brae breid bydes canna cauld coud cummin daur denner digraph dinna doun dounby dout duin English example faither ferr finnd frae gang gaun guid haena hame haud haund haurlie heid hert houss Hugh MacDiarmid ither Jamie the Saxt juist LALLANS lassie literary Scots lyke mair maist Makkars meinits Middle Scots mukkil mynd nouns ower Past Participle Past Tense prep pron pronoun puir richt Scotland Scots Grammar Scots Language Scottish shyne skuil snaw soud soudna specifically Scots words spelling thae thaim thair thare the-day the-nicht thir throu toun tyme uised verb vowel wadna weill whan Whaur whit whuther whyles Writers in Scots wumman wund wyfe ye'l ye'r yeir yeirsell

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TitleA Scots Grammar: Scots Grammar and Usage
AuthorDavid Purves
ContributorSaltire Society
Editionillustrated, revised
PublisherThe Saltire Society, 2002
ISBN0854110798, 9780854110797
Length160 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Foreign Language Study / Celtic Languages
Foreign Language Study / Miscellaneous
Language Arts & Disciplines / General
Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Syntax
  
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