Features of Scots Flashcards
MORPHOSYNTAX: How was the present participle presented in Older versions of Scots, as opposed to English?
Present participle -and rather than -ing
EXAMPLE: He is wyrkand = He is working
MORPHOSYNTAX: Explain how negation works in Scots.
isnae, widnae, hivnae
‘No’ used as English uses ‘not’
MORPHOSYNTAX: Give two ways in which modals are used in different Scots dialects.
No do support in Buckie Scots:
I na mine fa come in = I do not remember who came in
Constructions with two modals is possible in some dialects in and around the central belt:
He might can help you next week
PHONOLOGY: is a distinction between the ‘w’ sound in words like ‘which’ and ‘witch’?
Yes
PHONOLOGY: Was the velar fricative a feature of Old English or is it purely and Scots language feature, perhaps derived from Gaelic or elsewhere?
It was a feature of Old English - See spellings of words like daughter, which used to be pronounced with a velar fricative in Old English.
PHONOLOGY: Is Scots a rhotic variety?
Yes, very, very much so
PHONOLOGY: Explain using phonological terminology how words like all and full were originally pronounced in Scots
Historically Scots lost /l/ in coda positions after back vowels - [ɔ:] + [fu:]
PHONOLOGY: Explain using phonological terminology how ‘knee’ might have been pronounced in some Northern Scots dialects.
Initial clusters are all pronounced rather than having a silent ‘k’ sounds.
PHONOLOGY: intervocalic /t/ and sometimes /p/ and /k/ are subject to glottalisation. What does this mean
Words like ‘paper’ are pronounced: [pepʔǝr]
PHONOLOGY: What is Glottal replacement?
How ‘butter’ is pronounced in a Scottish accent ie. with a glottal stop rather than a ‘t’ sound
PHONOLOGY: How is a near-close near-front unrounded vowel realised in Scots (words like Bin and Kit)?
Often lowered and centralised [ɛ]
PHONOLOGY: Explain SVLR
Vowels are long before voiced fricatives, before /r/, word finally, and before a morpheme boundary. Vowels are short elsewhere. SVLR is sensitive to morpheme boundaries Need and Kneed difference.
SVLR of course has exceptions.
