A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

adjectives Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.5 2 1.5 0 75.6 0 0
Number of occurrences184 1 0 13 0 0
Number of authors5 3 1 1

Occurrences of adjectives in Corpus

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Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
Adjectives is rarely used athin an explo on page 11
the categories (brukken intae adjectives, adverbs, interjections, noun on page 51

2 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
adverbs like aback and ablow; adjectives like antrin, bonnie, byornar,
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
ed ‘-ed’ endin. Hooivver, adjectives and verb endins in ‘-t’ (
1 matches

Doric

McClure, Derrick J. Throwe the Keekin-Gless an Fit Ailice Funn There, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012559) Doric, prose
r, they're the maist consaity-adjectives ye can dee onythin wi, but na on page 82

1 matches

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
MAKKIN ADJECTIVES (DESCRIPTIVE WIRDS) on page 43
WI ADJECTIVES: DESCRIPTIVE WIRDS on page 44
noun phrase, dat is nouns an adjectives (descriptive wirds), dan at d on page 46
4.2 Adjectives in Shaetlan on page 51
an agein d'ir referred tae as adjectives, bit da differ at dey ir on page 61
Also on pages 77
13 matches

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