Robert McColl Millar

Modern Scots

An Analytical Survey

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This textbook overview of Modern Scots provides a description and analysis of the language covering lexical, phonological and structural patterns. It presents evidence for the diversity of the language through illustrations from newly collected fieldwork material.

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Produktdetails

• Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language - Advanced
• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 138mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 330g
• ISBN-13: 9781474416870
• ISBN-10: 147441687X
• Artikelnr.: 49680510

Autorenporträt

Robert McColl Millar is Reader in Linguistics in the School of Language & Literature at the University of Aberdeen. His books include Northern and Insular Scots (2007), Authority and Identity. A Sociolinguistic History of Europe before the Modern Age (2010) and English Historical Sociolinguistics (2012).

Inhaltsangabe

Some preliminaries
Chapter 1: Scots: languages and cultures, peoples and lands
Chapter 2: Resources
Chapter 3: Phonology
Chapter 4: Lexis
Chapter 5: Structure: the Grammar of Modern Scots
Chapter 6: Scots used creatively: literature and beyond
Chapter 7: Chapter 7: The Sociolinguistics of Scots
Chapter 8: Chapter 8: Scots: a once and future language?
References