SOME GEOGRAPHICAL AND CULTURAL PATTERNS IN THE LEXICAL/SEMANTIC STRUCTURE OF SCOTS

Northern Scotland

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 55-65

  Millar, Robert Mccoll ^a  

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EID: 84989365684     PISSN: 03065278     EISSN: 20422717     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3366/nor.1999.0007     Document Type: Article

References (7)

1. J.C. Catford, 'Vowel-Systems of Scots Dialects', Transactions of the Philological Society 55 (1957), 108-117.
2. Mairi Robinson (ed.). The Concise Scots Dictionary (Aberdeen, 1985). All examples used below are direct quotations from this dictionary with the proviso that only the information necessary to
3. make the point is cited. In this table, and in its equivalents elsewhere in this essay, % Group implies the percentage of
4. that geographical pattern represented by that semantic field. Susan M. Lawrie, 'A Linguistic Survey of the Use and Familiarity of Scottish Dialect Items in
5. North-East Fife', Scottish Language 10(1991), 19-29. Malcolm Gray, The Fishing Industries of Scotland, ¡790-1914. A Study in Regional Adaptation
6. (Oxford, 1978), 87-8. As discussed in, for instance, J.Y. Mather, 'Linguistic Geography and the Traditional Drift-Net Fishery of the Scottish East Coast' in Patterns in the Folk Speech of the British Isles, ed. M.F. Wakelin (London, 1972), 7-31.
7. This is in line with developments in the regional dialects of East Anglia under the influence of London as discussed in J.K. Chambers and Peter Trudgill, Dialectology (Cambridge, 1980), 11.7.