Edinburgh History of the Scots Language
1st Edition
Published on 31. July 2019
608 pages
978-1-4744-6963-0 (ISBN)
Description
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
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Charles Jones
The Edinburgh History of the Scots Language
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10/1997
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Editor's Preface
- Notes on Contributors
- Part 1 THE BEGINNING TO 1700
- 1 Differentation 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 Material 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
- Part 3 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
