A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

modal Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.2 3.6 0 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences77 0 0 0 0 0
Number of authors3 3

Occurrences of modal in Corpus

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Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
A modal verb is a verb that expresses on page 31
ar body that wad use a dooble modal, gin ye pyntit this oot tae t on page 33

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Douglas, Sheila Lallans 59 - Review Folksongs and Folklore of South Uist, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
sin. Forby, the auld airs are modal or pentatonic an dinnae confo on page 62

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Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s linguistic launscape – Scottish Staunart English and Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
‘must’ and ‘ought’ as modal verbs in SSE in favour o ‘h
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