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Language in Scotland : corpus-based studies /

The chapters in this volume take as their focus aspects of three of the languages of Scotland: Scots, Scottish English, and Scottish Gaelic. They present linguistic research which has been made possible by new and developing corpora of these languages: this encompasses work on lexis and lexicogramma...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Anderson, Wendy, 1975-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Rodopi, 2013.
Colección:Scottish cultural review of language and literature ; v. 19.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Punctuation in the Letters of Archibald Campbell, Lord Ilay (1682-1761); Legal Terminology in the Eighteenth-century Scottish University; The Spelling Practices of Allan Ramsay and Robert Burns; Ego Documents in Scottish Corpora: The Contribution of Nineteenth-centuryLetters and Diaries to the Study of Language History; Corpas na Gàidhlig and Singular Nouns with the Numerals 'three' to 'ten'in Scottish Gaelic; Footprints from the Past: The Survival of Scots Kinship Terms.
  • Let's tak a guid lang luik at SCOTS: A Corpus-based Comparison of Light Verb Constructions in SCOTS and the BNC'Thingmy an aa the rest o it': Vague Language in Spoken Scottish English; 'Snippets of Memory': Metaphor in the SCOTS Corpus; The Use of Corpora in Lexicographical Research in Scots; Computational Challenges, Innovations, and Future of Scottish Corpora; Enroller: An Experiment in Aggregating Resources; Index.