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Scots and its literature /
Among the topics treated in this collection are the status of Scots as a national language; the orthography of Scots; the actual and potential degree of standardisation of Scots; the debt of the vocabulary of Scots to Gaelic; the use of Scots in fictional dialogue; and the development of Scots as a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
J. Benjamins Pub.,
©1995.
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| Colección: | Varieties of English around the world. General series ;
v. 14. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Among the topics treated in this collection are the status of Scots as a national language; the orthography of Scots; the actual and potential degree of standardisation of Scots; the debt of the vocabulary of Scots to Gaelic; the use of Scots in fictional dialogue; and the development of Scots as a poetic medium in the modern period. All fourteen articles, written and published between 1979 and 1988, have been extensively revised and updated. J. Derrick McClure is a senior lecturer in the English Department at Aberdeen University and a well-known authority on the history of Scots. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (218 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-210) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9789027276056 9027276056 1283358433 9781283358439 9786613358431 6613358436 |