The Edinburgh History of the Scots Language / / Charles Jones.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Jones, Charles,
• MitwirkendeR: Baoill, Colm O,; Beal, Joan,; Gregg, Robert J.,; Jack, Ronald D. S.,; Johnston, Paul,; Jones, Charles,; King, Anne,; Kniezsa, Veronika,; Macafee, C. I.,; Meurman-Solin, Anneli,; Moessner, Lilo,; Montgomery, Michael B.,; Tulloch, Graham,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©1997
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (608 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Editor’s Preface --; Notes on Contributors --; Part 1 The Beginnings to 1700 --; 1 Differentiation and Standardisation in Early Scots --; 2 The Origins of Scots Orthography --; 3 Older Scots Phonology and its Regional Variation --; 4 The Syntax of Older Scots --; 5 The Inflectional Morphology of Older Scots --; 6 Older Scots Lexis --; 7 The Language of Literary Materials: Origins to 1700 --; Part 2 1700 to the Present Day --; 8 Phonology --; 9 Syntax and Morphology --; 10 Lexis --; 11 Regional Variation --; 12 Ongoing Change in Modern Scots: The Social Dimension --; Part III Scots and Gaelic, and Scots furth of Scotland --; 13 The Scots-Gaelic Interface --; 14 The Scots Language in Ulster --; 15 The Scots Language in Australia --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781474410977; 9783110780475
• DOI: 10.1515/9781474410977
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Charles Jones.

This is the first full scale attempt to record the diachronic development of this important English language variety and includes extensive essays by some of the foremost international scholars of the Scots language. The book attempts to provide a detailed and technical description of the syntax, phonology, morphology and vocabulary of the language in two main periods: the beginnings to 1700 and from 1700 to the present day. The language's geographical variation both in the past and at the present time are fully documented and the sociolinguistic forces which lie behind linguistic innovation and its transmission provide a principal theme running through the book.WINNER of the Saltire society/National Library of Scotland Scottish Research Book of the Year Award