Perspectives on the Older Scottish Tongue /

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

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 publicat...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.)
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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

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