Skoit du oot-by, Magnie:  Scots Grammar Supported by Norn in the Dialects of the Northern Isles?

Ragnhild Ljosland

Skoit du oot-by, Magnie: Scots Grammar Supported by Norn in the Dialects of the Northern Isles?

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The question raised in this paper is whether one can argue that certain archaic grammatical structures from Scots have survived in the dialects of Orkney and Shetland because they had support in the grammar of Norn. I have previously touched on such a possibility regarding the lack of do-support found in constructions such as ‘minds du?’ (Ljosland 2012), but I will here examine two
further construction types: imperatives where the subject is expressed (‘skoit du’) and the differentiation between a nominal and a verbal –ing ending, e.g. ‘I go fishan becaes I like fisheen’ (Lamb 2005, 80).

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Shetland and the Viking World
Subtitle of host publication	Papers from the Proceedings of the Seventeenth Viking Congress Lerwick
Editors	Val Turner, Olwyn Owen, Doreen Waugh
Place of Publication	Lerwick
Publisher	Shetland Heritage Publications
Pages	69-76
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Print)	9780993274039
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2016
Event	17th Viking Congress - Lerwick, United Kingdom Duration: 5 Aug 2013 → 10 Aug 2013 http://www.vikingcongress.com/pages/news/nr/127359/

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Conference	17th Viking Congress
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Lerwick
Period	5/08/13 → 10/08/13
Internet address	http://www.vikingcongress.com/pages/news/nr/127359/

Keywords

Viking Age
Scotland
Shetland
Shetland dialect
Orkney
Orkney dialect
Norn
Scots

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Skoit du oot-by, Magnie: Scots Grammar Supported by Norn in the Dialects of the Northern Isles? / Ljosland, Ragnhild.
Shetland and the Viking World: Papers from the Proceedings of the Seventeenth Viking Congress Lerwick. ed. / Val Turner; Olwyn Owen; Doreen Waugh. Lerwick: Shetland Heritage Publications, 2016. p. 69-76.

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