A History of Scots to 1700

Caroline Macafee, incorporating material by the late A. J. Aitken

Contents

Abbreviations and conventions

1. Introduction - CM

2. The origins and spread of Scots – CM

3. Characteristics of Older Scots - CM

4. Vocabulary and borrowing - CM

5. Orthography - AJA rev. CM

6. Phonology
Vowels §§1-30 - AJA ed. CM
Consonants §31 - CM

7. Grammar - CM

8. Chronological, genre and regional variation - CM

9. Style
Structures of sound §§1.1-1.2.3 and §§1.2.5-1.3 – CM
Unstressed -e §1.2.4 AJA ed. CM
Verse §§2-4 - AJA ed. CM
Prose §5 - CM

Bibliography