Robert McColl Millar (Professor in Linguistics and Scots Language

Broschiertes Buch

A History of the Scots Language

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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).

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