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This book provides a thorough yet approachable history of the Scots language, a close relative of Standard English with around 1.5 million speakers...

Sociolinguistics provides a powerful instrument by which we can interpret the contemporary and near-contemporary use of language in relation to the...

A textbook overview of the structure, use and diversity of Modern Scots This textbook overview of Modern Scots provides a description and analysis ...

Linguistic contact is a reality of everyday life, as speakers of different languages come into contact with one another, often causing language cha...

Linguistic contact is a reality of everyday life, as speakers of different languages come into contact with one another, often causing language cha...

Trasks Historical Linguistics provides an accessible introduction to historical linguistics the study of language change over time. This engaging ...

Presents a new approach to issues of language and dialect contact Much has been written on dialect formation through contact between dialects of th...