Perspectives on the Older Scottish Tongue / / Margaret Mackay, Christian Kay.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Kay, Christian,; Mackay, Margaret,
• MitwirkendeR: Bawcutt, Priscilla,; Dareau, M. G.,; Dawson, Jane E. A.,; Fenton, Alexander,; Forte, A. D. M.,; Gillies, William,; MacDonald, Alasdair A.,; Macleod, Iseabail,; Meek, Donald E.,; Nicolaisen, W. F. H.,; Pike, K. L.,; Schaffner, Paul,; Sellar, W. D. H.,; Simpson, A. D. C.,; Walker, Bruce,; Williamson, Keith,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)

GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748622818);This book celebrates the rich diversity of the Scots language and the culture it embodies. It marks two important events in Scots language scholarship: the completion of the Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (DOST) in 2001 and the publication of its final volumes in 2002. The thirteen chapters which comprise the volume cover many aspects of Scottish life as illuminated by the words used to describe them. The writers, experts in their own fields, are linked by the fact that they have all made use of the wealth of information in DOST to advance their research. Their topics include the use of DOST in reading literature, in tracing the consumption of cereals and wine in early Scotland, in elucidating place names and terms used in shipping, building and measurement, and in defining such complex concepts as homicide and the role of the 'gossip'. Nor is the history and structure of the dictionary itself forgotten. There is a study of its development from its beginnings in the 1920s, together with biographical notes on its editors over the years. There are also chapters drawing comparisons with the Middle English Dictionary, the Linguistic Atlas of Older Scots and the proposed historical dictionary of Scottish Gaelic. The book will thus appeal to those interested in the history of Scots and Scotland, and to those with a more general interest in the history of languages and development of dictionaries."

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Editors’ Preface -- CHAPTER 1 Introduction -- CHAPTER 2 DOST and the Literary Scholar -- CHAPTER 3 The History and Development of DOST -- CHAPTER 4 ‘There is Nothing Like a Good Gossip’: Baptism, Kinship and Alliance in Early Modern Scotland -- CHAPTER 5 ‘Wyne Confortative’: Wine in Scotland from the Thirteenth till the Eighteenth Centuries -- CHAPTER 6 Law and Lexicography: DOST and Late Medieval and Early Modern Scottish Shipping Law -- CHAPTER 7 Cereal Terms in the DOST Record -- CHAPTER 8 The Spread of a Word: Scail in Scots and Sgaoil in Gaelic -- CHAPTER 9 Place Names as Evidence in the History of Scots -- CHAPTER 10 DOST and MED and the Virtues of Sibling Rivalry -- CHAPTER 11 Was it Murder? John Comyn of Badenoch and William, Earl of Douglas -- CHAPTER 12 Interpreting Scots Measurement Terms: a Cautionary Tale -- CHAPTER 13 The Use of the Scottish National Dictionaries in the Study of Traditional Construction -- CHAPTER 14 DOST and LAOS: a Caledonian Symbiosis? -- CHAPTER 15 Envoi -- APPENDIX I The Editors of DOST -- APPENDIX 2 Contributors to this volume -- Bibliography -- Index