A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'lexical'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
lexicalOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.5258
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 81.4 14 2
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 11.8 9 4
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of lexical in Corpus

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Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
S: FUNCTION VERBS AT MODIFIES LEXICAL VERBS on page 44
s section'll look first at da lexical classes o da noun phrase, dat on page 46
jectives bilangs til da oppen lexical on page 61
s section'll look first at da lexical class o verbs, dan at da func on page 69
Adverbs bilang tae da lexical class o wirds at hae a braali on page 77
Also on pages 88, 89
13 matches

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
alism in Friesland. He says, "Lexical interference only damages the
1 matches

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 73 - TROUBLE WI WITTGENSTEIN, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
aan)..." Na, better this wye "Lexical pantheism was..." Na, na that on page 86

1 matches

General Northern

Diansangu, Mae Tales Fae The Doric Side - My Faither's Fowk, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
lexical invaders, sint tae howk on page 38

1 matches

General Central

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 61 - Glesca dialeck i the modren warld, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
an maist parteicularly about lexical erosion. Whan Ah say daith, A on page 9

1 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 63 - Auld plain Scottis, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
t it is tae wyle Scots wirds (lexical items) an no juist wird forms
1 matches

Falconer, Gavin Lallans 63 - Richt Scots an Pithy Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
ury, wi thair antrin mixtur o lexical puirtith an rhetorical walth.
1 matches

Falconer, Gavin Lallans 81 - Scots an Mid-Ulster Inglish, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
versity fand that 61.6% o the lexical items in the Concise Ulster D
Agin thon, the nummer o Scots lexical items is that muckle that itâ
2 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
sic weel-kent and weel-looed lexical items as:
Whaur it daes occur is as a lexical verb in senses similar to ‘
2 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
sicht o ten o the maist fykie lexical and syntactical exemples o wh
. Anither guid exemple o thon lexical affinity atween Gaelic and Sc
2 matches

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