Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements viii
4. Some preliminaries ix
5. 1 Scots: languages and cultures, peoples and lands 1
6. 2 Resources 25
7. 3 Phonology 33
8. 4 Lexis 97
9. 5 Structure: the grammar of Modern Scots 139
10. 6 Scots used creatively: literature and beyond 160
11. 7 The sociolinguistics of Scots 192
12. 8 Scots: a once and future language? 215
13. Bibliography 220
14. Index 229