Adverbial Clauses in Scots: A Semantic-Syntactic Study

✍ Scribed by Martina Häcker

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 320
• Series: Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL]; 27
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
List of figures
List of tables
PART I: SCOPE AND METHODOLOGY
1. Introduction
1.1. Aims and scope of the present study
1.2. The history of Scots
1.3. Perceptions of Scots and attitudes towards it
1.4. The state of Scottish language studies
1.5. The grammar of Scots: A neglected field of linguistic research
1.6. Methodology
2. Adverbial clauses: Definitions and classifications
2.1. The syntactic status of adverbial clauses in grammatical theory
2.2. A function-based definition and classification of adverbial clauses
2.3. General structural characteristics of adverbial clauses
2.4. Clause patterns of adverbial clauses
2.5. A function-based definition of adverbial subordinators
2.6. The morphological structure of adverbial subordinators
2.7. Adverbial clauses and polyfunctionality
PART II: DESCRIPTION
3. Semantic categories
3.1. Clauses of place
3.2. Clauses of time
3.3. Clauses of condition
3.4. Clauses of restriction
3.5. Clauses of exception
3.6. Clauses of comparison
3.7. Clauses of preference
3.8. Clauses of concession
3.9. Clauses of reason
3.10. Clauses of purpose and prevention
3.11. Clauses of result
3.12. Clauses of means
3.13. C lauses of accompanying circumstance
PART III: ANALYSIS
4. Variability of patterns
4.1. Variation within Scots
4.2. The diachronic perspective
4.3. The cross-linguistic perspective: Structural comparison
4.4. The cross-linguistic perspective: Semantic comparison
5. Summary and conclusion
5.1. Variation in Scots: Qualitative and quantitative differences
5.2. Scots and Standard English: Qualitative and quantitative differences
5.3. Adverbial clauses in Scots: Possible and probable developments
5.4. Adverbial clauses in Scots as a case study in dialect syntax
5.5. Adverbial clauses in Scots: Implications for linguistic theory
5.6. Areas for future research: Some suggestions
Appendix: The database
1. The spoken corpus
2. The written corpus
Notes
References
Maps
A note on maps
Map 1: Scots dialect regions according to the SND
Map 2: Regional divisions based on the present study
Map 3: Regional distribution of spoken texts
Map 4: Regional distribution of written texts
Map 5: Regional distribution of written and spoken texts combined
Author Index
General Index