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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820961803321

Autore

Millar Robert McColl <1966->

Titolo

Northern and insular Scots / / Robert McColl Millar [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2007

ISBN

0-7486-5152-7

9786610762491

1-280-76249-7

0-7486-2996-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vii, 178 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Dialects of English

Disciplina

427.94111

Soggetti

English language - Dialects - Scotland

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 142-148) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.