A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

possessive Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.2 1.5 0 0 23.2 0 0
Number of occurrences73 0 0 4 0 0
Number of authors3 2 1

Occurrences of possessive in Corpus

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Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
tak tent o is that Scots uses possessive pronouns whiles whaur speaker on page 30

2 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
pattit her cheek again, in a possessive wey, a threatenin wey, an lef
1 matches

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
4.3.2 Possessive pronouns on page 57
4.4.3 Possessive determiners on page 65

4 matches

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