A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'syntax'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
syntaxOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.62212
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.4 2 2
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 23.6 18 8
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of syntax in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Matthews, Andrew Lallans 104 - Skiddlie Thochts, (Lallans Magazine 2024) Central, prose
We hae the wirds, aye, an the syntax, an oor time is comin. That's on page 81

1 matches

West Central

Philips, Cally Gonnae No Dae That, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Central - Turriff, prose
tae the fore. Oor words. Oor syntax, n oor grammar. That’s juis
1 matches

Edinburgh

Pyper, Hugh S. The Five Scrolls, (Handsel Press 2023 ISBN: 978-1912052790) Central, poetry
map ontae English in grammar, syntax an vocabularie. The music o S on page vii

1 matches

Forde, Iain W D The Kirk, The Skuil, The Buik (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2007) Central, prose
e heize wi thon in hiz buik o syntax. Nivver-the-les, ye canna pit on page 11

1 matches

General Central

Brown, Ian Lallans 70 - The Scots leid in modren Scots drama, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
cots there is a deal o common syntax an lexis that is neither Engl on page 34

1 matches

Scottish Parliament Scots Leids Bill – Stage 1 Report, (The Scottish Parliament 2024) Central, government
erent sentence structures and syntax. on page 44

1 matches

Donati, Colin Scots A Statement o Principles, (Scots Parliament 2003 ISBN: 978-1-899920-02-1) Central, government
e a wheen o words, phrases an syntax in common an are aften heard on page 7

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
ured an pattrens o gremmar an syntax that belangs us alane. This g on page 7

1 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 61 - Glesca dialeck i the modren warld, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
l research, bit vocabular and syntax are gey important, because it on page 9

1 matches

Tait, John M Lallans 63 - Expository Scots (2), (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
ers at follaes formal English syntax like this disna tend ti dae t
birzed intil standard English syntax hauden thegither wi unnecessa
2 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s linguistic launscape – Scottish Staunart English and Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
rds (vocabulary), grammar and syntax (the wey that sentences are b
Grammar/Syntax
t, wi its ain unique grammar, syntax, vocabulary and idiom. It is
3 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
their ain unique vocabulary, syntax and smeddum.
A gey flittable item o syntax meanin ‘in addition’, ‘
e-or-dee defenders o Scottish syntax.
3 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s Linguistic Landscape - Scots and Gaelic, (Translation Services 24 2022) Central, prose
Syntax
o a wheen affinities in their syntax, phonology and sentiment, as
2 matches

@LairnScots tweeted
...the Scots Syntax atlas (@ScotsAtlas) whaur lai (2021) twitter link
The Scots Syntax atlas: https://t.co/TLTu0Yubp (2020) twitter link
erestin pairt o the new Scots Syntax resource. https://t.co/727KXp (2019) twitter link

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