A Scots Grammar: Scots Grammar and Usage
- ISBN-10
- 0854110798
- ISBN-13
- 9780854110797
- Category
- Scots language
- Pages
- 160
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002
- Publisher
- The Saltire Society
- Author
- David Purves
Description
Purves presents Scots as a separate language in its own right, resisting the often prevalent notion that Scots is merely a dialect of English, and gives a coherent overview of the distinctive grammatical and idiomatic usage of Scots.
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