Background data for: The morpho-syntax of Scottish Standard English: Questionnaire-based insights

<p>Dataset abstract</p>

<p>This dataset contains tabular files with data on the currency of four morpho-syntactic features in Standard Scottish English and Standard Southern British English: quotative LIKE, epistemic MUSTN'T, extended uses of the progressive, and YOUSE as a second person plural pronoun. It is drawn from the Bamberg Survey of Language Variation and Change (BSLVC; Krug & Sell 2013). Usage ratings are provided by young, educated speakers, who indicate on an ordinal scale how many speakers in their home country would use a particular feature (embedded in a carrier sentence). The response options are "no-one", "few", "some", "many", "most", and "everyone", and ratings are collected for two different registers: casual speech (informal conversation among friends) and (semi-)formal writing (email to a former teacher). The data include 43 British informants (21 male, 22 female; mean age 21) and 61 Scottish informants (24 male, 37 female; mean age 21). Each participant provided two ratings (spoken vs. written) for a single sentence.</p>