Robert McColl (Reader in Linguistics Millar Forfatter
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Contact: The Interaction of Closely Related Linguistic Varieties and the History of English (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Much has been written on dialect formation through contact between dialects of the same language, but the... Læs mere
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Lexical Variation and Attrition in the Scottish Fishing Communities (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
This book considers various theoretical and methodological issues in relation to a representative sample of fishing communities along Scotland’s east coast. Can the lexical variation and change found in these communities be perceived as primary evidence for dialect death?
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Northern and Insular Scots (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
The Scots dialects of northern Scotland, Orkney and Shetland are among the most traditional varieties of ‘English’. Northern and Insular Scots provides an approachable... Læs mere
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English Historical Sociolinguistics (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Provides students with a more profound understanding of the sociolinguistic forces which initiate or encourage language change.
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Modern Scots: An Analytical Survey (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
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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