Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures and Tables -- The International Phonetic Alphabet -- Chapter 1 A Brief History of Scot -- Chapter 2 Scottish Place-names -- Chapter 3 Scottish Surnames -- Chapter 4 Studying Scots Vocabulary -- Chapter 5 Syntax and Discourse in Modern Scots -- Chapter 6 The Phonology of Modern Urban Scots -- Chapter 7 The Phonology of Older Scots -- Chapter 8 Corpus-based Study of Older Scots Grammar and Lexis -- Chapter 9 The Language of Older Scots Poetry -- Chapter 10 The Language of Modern Scots Poetry -- Chapter 11 The Scots Language Abroad -- Chapter 12 Language Planning and Modern Scots -- Bibliography -- Index