A. J. Aitken, ed. Caroline Macafee, ‘Collected Writings on the Scots Language’ (2015) — 17 p.
In his ‘History of Scots’ for the introduction to The Concise Scots Dictionary, A. J. Aitken follows the historian Geoffrey Barrow (1980) in seeing Scots as descended primarily from the Anglo-Danish of the North of England, with only a marginal role for the Old English introduced...
In A. J. Aitken, ed. Caroline Macafee, ‘Collected Writings on the Scots Language’ (2015) - 22 p. This paper discusses the arguments for and against the proposition that Scots is a distinct language, in the context of the status of Scots in the modern period and up to 1981.
Paisley, Alexader Gardner, 1914. — 170 p.
James Stout Angus
1830 – 1923
Belonged to Nesting; lived in Lerwick after his marriage in 1860. He was a ship’s carpenter and housewright, and the first poet to write in Shetland dialect. His poetry collection Echoes from Klingrahoull (1920) contains poems in both English and Shetland dialect, including ‘Eels’, the first Shetland...
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...
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intended as a concise and up-to-date introduction to Modern Scots, much in the vein of the classical, but now somewhat outdated textbooks by Grant & Main-Dixon (1921) and Wilson (1926).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...
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, 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;...
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...
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...
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...
(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...
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...
University Aberdeen, 2014. — 31 p. Doric is a Scottish dialect spoken in the North East of Scotland around Aberdeen city and shire. The basics People Small talk Socialising Eating & drinking The weather Clothing Anatomy Actions Animals Further study
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...
Mouton de Gruyter, 1999. — 321 p. — (Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] 27). — ISBN 3110156431, 9783110156430. This study presents a comprehensive syntactic and semantic analysis of a geographically balanced corpus of written and spoken texts, in contemporary Scots (including the author's own field recordings), amply illustrated with examples, thus making a major contribution...
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,...
Paisley, Alexader Gardner, 1879. — xxii + 567 p. An etymological dictionary of the Scottish language; to which is prefixed, a dissertation on the origin of the Scottish language. New ed., carefully rev. and collated, with the entire suppl. incorporated Jamieson’s Dictionary was first published in two volumes in 1808, then supplemented with a further two volumes in 1825. In...
Paisley, Alexader Gardner, 1880. — 715 p. An etymological dictionary of the Scottish language; to which is prefixed, a dissertation on the origin of the Scottish language. New ed., carefully rev. and collated, with the entire suppl. incorporated Jamieson’s Dictionary was first published in two volumes in 1808, then supplemented with a further two volumes in 1825. In 1808, its S...
Paisley, Alexader Gardner, 1880. — 652 p. An etymological dictionary of the Scottish language; to which is prefixed, a dissertation on the origin of the Scottish language. New ed., carefully rev. and collated, with the entire suppl. incorporated Jamieson’s Dictionary was first published in two volumes in 1808, then supplemented with a further two volumes in 1825. In 1808, its S...
Paisley, Alexader Gardner, 1882. — 872 p. An etymological dictionary of the Scottish language; to which is prefixed, a dissertation on the origin of the Scottish language. New ed., carefully rev. and collated, with the entire suppl. incorporated Jamieson’s Dictionary was first published in two volumes in 1808, then supplemented with a further two volumes in 1825. In 1808, its S...
Edinburgh: william P. Nimmo 1867. 708 стр. The words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers Whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and derived from their originals.
Crombie Jardine Publishing Limited, 2006. — 160 p. In the second part of the twentieth century there began to be a marked increase in the number of reference books available in bookshops. No longer was the reference library of the average fairly educated household restricted to one dictionary, probably dog-eared and several decades old, one out-dated copy of Roget's Thesaurus,...
Crombie Jardine Publishing Limited, 2006. — 160 p.
Few people who are either native speakers of English or who have learnt English as a foreign or second language visit Scotland with any expectations of experiencing language difficulties. For the most part, their confidence is justified, provided at least they stick to the traditional tourist places and pursuits. The most...
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...
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, 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...
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...
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...
London: Whittaker and CO. Paternoster Square, E.C. 1888. — 440 p. With an introductory chapter on the poetry, humour, and literary history of the Scottish language and an appendix of Scottish proverbs.
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...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1995. — 224 p. — (Varieties of English Around the World G14). Among the topics treated in this collection are the status of Scots as a national language; the orthography of Scots; the actual and potential degree of standardisation of Scots; the debt of the vocabulary of Scots to Gaelic; the use of Scots in fictional dialogue; and the...
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 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...
Dictionary of Scottish words, HarperCollins Publishers, Glasgow, 2009 - 181 p. The list of words covered in this book is by no means an exhaustive or comprehensive list of all the words used in Scotland or of Scottish origin, but it is intended to be an alphabetical compendium of the most interesting ones. In many cases a definitive etymology of the word has been lost in time....
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...
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...
Polygon at Edinburgh, 1999. — xli, 819 p. "The Concise Scots Dictionary" contains meanings, spelling variants, pronunciation, information on when and where words are used, grammatical information, idioms and phrases, etymologies and details of Scottish life then and now. The Concise Scots Dictionary is concerned mainly with Scots, the language of Lowland Scotland, the area...
The Ullans Press, 2012. — 40 p.
Ulster-scots language guides A core vocabulary wordlist with verb tables
This glossary is based on the dictionary database collections of the Ulster-Scots Language
Society, including verb tables and other extracts from P Robinson's Ulster-Scots: A
Grammar of the Traditional Written and Spoken Language, 2nd edition (Ullans Press,
2007) and...
Bilingual Ed. — Geddes & Grosset, Waverley Books Ltd, 2014. — 260 p. — ISBN10: 1842056026, 13 978-1842056028. The Scots-English English-Scots Dictionary is a fascinating and up-to-date guide to the language that developed alongside English in the northern parts of the British Isles. As well as including such well-known words as dreich, sassenach, kirk and kittle, it contains...
Hippocrene Books, 1998. — 260 p. — (Hippocrene Practical Dictionary). This dictionary is a fascinating and up-to-date guide to the language that developed alongside English in the northern parts of the British Isles. In addition to introducing such well-known words as dreich, sassenach, kirk and kittle, it contains thousands of the other words that have enriched Scotland's...
Hippocrene Books, 1998. — 292 p. Scots remains a thriving language as covered in this dictionary of the most widely-used words and expressions of today. Entries are arranged within fifteen categories, which express some aspect of everyday life in Scotland (eating and drinking, people, health, law). A key is provided to indicate the various contexts (colloquial, literary etc) in...
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...
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...
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...
London - Edinburgh: W.W. & R. Chambers LTD, 1911. — 717 p. This Scottish Dictionary is intended to deal with what should interest all Scotsmen at home and abroad, as well as foreign students of later Scottish literature. It is designed to serve as a Dictionary or a Vocabulary, not of Early or of Middle Scottish, but of Modern Scottish alone, with a few exceptions. The period...
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...
2013. — 33 p. Version 1.4.1 Articles Verbs Nouns Pronouns Adjectives Adverbs Prepositions Conjunctions Numbers Time Exclamations and 'markers' References and further reading
Опубликовано в: Тамбов: Грамота, 2019. Том 12. Выпуск 1. — C. 88-93. В статье излагается вопрос о номинациях болезней в шотландском диалекте. Материал исследования: шотландско-английские словари "The Online Scots Dictionary" и "Dictionary of the Scots Language", "Новый англо- русский словарь" В. К. Мюллера, "Лингвистический энциклопедический словарь" под редакцией В. Н. Ярцевой...
Опубликовано в: СПб.: Известия Российского государственного педагогического университета им. А.И. Герцена, № 33 (73). Аспирантские тетради. Ч. 1. Общественные и гуманитарные науки, 2008. — с. 400-405. Статья посвящена проблемам модальности и способам ее передачи в литературном английском языке и диалектах равнинной Шотландии (скотс). Более подробно рассматриваются двойные и...
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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