[PDF] Scottish Language eBook

Author : L. Colin Wilson
Publisher : Luath Press Ltd
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,56 MB
Release : 2011-08
Category : Scots language
ISBN : 9781906307431

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This audio recording, which accompanies the Luath Scots Language Learner book, conveys the authentic pronunciation, especially important to readers from outside Scotland. It is suitable as an introductory course or for those interested in reacquainting themselves with the language of childhood and grandparents. There are dictionaries and grammar books but this is the first-ever language course. 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 grammar and idiom that distinguish Scots from English.

Author : Charles Mackay
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 42,17 MB
Release : 2024-05-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3385484030

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

Author : Billy Kay
Publisher : Random House
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 18,27 MB
Release : 2012-01-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1780574185

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Scots: The Mither Tongue is a classic of contemporary Scottish culture and essential reading for those who care about their country's identity in the twenty-first century. It is a passionately written history of how the Scots have come to speak the way they do and has acted as a catalyst for radical changes in attitude towards the language. In this completely revised edition, Kay vigorously renews the social, cultural and political debate on Scotland's linguistic future, and argues convincingly for the necessity to retain and extend Scots if the nation is to hold on to its intrinsic values. Kay places Scots in an international context, comparing and contrasting it with other lesser-used European languages, while at home questioning the Scottish Executive's desire to pay anything more than lip service to this crucial part of our national identity. Language is central to people's existence, and this vivid account celebrates the survival of Scots in its various dialects, its literature and song. The mither tongue is a national treasure that thrives in many parts of the country and underpins the speech of everyone who calls themselves a Scot.

Author : Robert McColl Millar
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 26,89 MB
Release : 2023-09-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0192609459

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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 treated as a dialect of Standard English. In this book, Robert McColl Millar explores both sociolinguistic and structural developments in the history of Scots, bringing together these two threads of analysis to offer a better understanding of linguistic change. The first half of the book tracks the development of Scots from its beginnings to the modern period, while chapters in the second half offer detailed descriptions of Scots historical phonology and morphosyntax, and of the historical development of Scots lexis. A History of the Scots Language will be a valuable resource for undergraduate and graduate students of the modern and historical Scots language, but will also be of interest to those studying the history of English and other Germanic languages.

Author : Nancy C. Dorian
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 11,1 MB
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1512815586

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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.