Young C.P.L. The Scots Learners' Grammar

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...