Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Editor’s Preface vii
4. Notes on Contributors ix
5. Part 1 The Beginnings to 1700
6. 1 Differentiation and Standardisation in Early Scots 1
7. 2 The Origins of Scots Orthography 24
8. 3 Older Scots Phonology and its Regional Variation 47
9. 4 The Syntax of Older Scots 112
10. 5 The Inflectional Morphology of Older Scots 156
11. 6 Older Scots Lexis 182
12. 7 The Language of Literary Materials: Origins to 1700 213
13. Part 2 1700 to the Present Day
14. 8 Phonology 265
15. 9 Syntax and Morphology 335
16. 10 Lexis 378
17. 11 Regional Variation 433
18. 12 Ongoing Change in Modern Scots: The Social Dimension 514
19. Part III Scots and Gaelic, and Scots furth of Scotland
20. 13 The Scots-Gaelic Interface 549
21. 14 The Scots Language in Ulster 569
22. 15 The Scots Language in Australia 623
23. Bibliography 637
24. Index 671