The Edinburgh History of the Scots Language /

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

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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, ph...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (608 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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