A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

infinitive Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.2 1.5 0 9.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences43 0 1 0 0 0
Number of authors2 1 1

Occurrences of infinitive in Corpus

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Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
Usin the 'Infinitive mak' on page 23
this table. In Soothron, the infinitive mak o a verb uses 'to' e.g. t on page 45

3 matches

Orkney

@johnkmitchinson tweeted
iesaurus We certainly use the infinitive here: ‘She’ll no be wantan (2021) twitter link