Robert McColl Millar (Professor in Linguistics and Scots Language

A History of the Scots Language

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Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a thorough yet approachable history of the Scots language, a close relative of Standard English. Robert McColl Millar explores both sociolinguistic and structural developments in the history of Scots, bringing together these two threads of analysis to offer a better understanding of linguistic change.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 170mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 378g
• ISBN-13: 9780198864004
• ISBN-10: 0198864000
• Artikelnr.: 67640381

Autorenporträt

Robert McColl Millar is Professor in Linguistics and Scots Language at the University of Aberdeen. His particular interests lie in the present use and history of Scots, in social dialectology and in the effects of language contact. His books include Northern and Insular Scots (Edinburgh University Press, 2007), Modern Scots: An Analytical Survey (Edinburgh University Press, 2018) and A Sociolinguistic History of Scotland (Edinburgh University Press, 2020).

Inhaltsangabe

1: What is Scots?
2: Historical and linguistic backgrounds: the Germanic languages, Old English and the pre-Scots period
3: Scots in the Medieval and Early Modern periods
4: Scots in decline? The Modern Age
5: Historical phonology of Scots
6: Historical morphosyntax of Scots
7: Historical development of Scots lexis
8: Conclusions