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Home / Publications / Books / Other titles / Understanding Grammar in Scotland Today

Understanding Grammar in Scotland Today

UNDERSTANDING GRAMMAR IN SCOTLAND TODAY

John Corbett & Christian Kay

Published in: Paperback.
By: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, Glasgow 2009.
Price: £9.95

ISBN 978-0-948877-93-3

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Language use in Scotland is characterised by a range of languages and language varieties. Understanding Grammar in Scotland Today aims to:

  • introduce readers to language investigation using the Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech (SCOTS), a free online web resource compiled by the University of Glasgow – www.scottishcorpus.ac.uk
  • encourage confidence in the analysis of written and spoken language in contemporary Scotland
  • provide a simple framework for understanding the relationship between grammar and meaning

Understanding Grammar in Scotland Today explains basic concepts and presents a method of analysis that is systematic and suitable for complete beginners with no previous experience of formal grammatical study.

John Corbett is Professor of Applied Language Studies at the University of Glasgow. He is author of various books and articles, including Language and Scottish Literature, and he co-edited and contributed to The Edinburgh Companion to Scots. He directs the Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech (SCOTS) project, and the Corpus of Modern Scottish Writing.

Christian Kay is an Honorary Professorial Research Fellow in the Department of English Language at the University of Glasgow. She co-authored the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary and A Thesaurus of Old English, and initiated the Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech (SCOTS) project.

CONTENTS

  • Chapter 1: Understanding Grammar
  • Chapter 2: Identifying Parts of Speech
  • Chapter 3: Describing Words
  • Chapter 4: More about Words
  • Chapter 5: Combining Words into Phrases
  • Chapter 6: Describing Complex Phrases
  • Chapter 7: Combining Phrases into Clauses
  • Chapter 8: From Clause to Complex Sentence
  • Chapter 9: Verb Systems
  • Chapter 10: Grammar and Close Reading
  • Answers to Activities
  • Further Reading
  • Index
  • List of Abbreviations

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Retrieving and Renewing: a poem for ASL

   Forget your literature? – forget your soul.
   If you want to see your country hale and whole
   Turn back the pages of fourteen hundred years.
   Surely not? Oh yes, did you expect woad and spears?
   In Altus Prosator the bristly blustery land
   Bursts in buzz and fouth within a grand
   Music of metrical thought. Breathes there the man
   With soul so dead—? Probably! But a scan
   Would show his fault was ignorance:
   Don’t follow him. Cosmic circumstance
   Hides in nearest, most ordinary things.
   Find Scotland – find inalienable springs.
  Edwin Morgan, 2004

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