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Older Scots: A Linguistic Reader (Scottish Text Society Fifth Series)
Older Scots A Linguistic Reader - Scottish Text Society Fifth Series Author:Jeremy J. Smith This book is a resource on which all scholars interested in Older Scots can draw. It is interdisciplinary in ambition: those interested in literary form in Older Scottish literature will be provided with a 'kit' for stylistic analysis; book historians will appreciate the detailed studies offered here of processes of production and reception, and... more » be reminded of the importance of integrating disciplines such as textual criticism, codicology, paleography and philology; and linguists will be given access to a body of up-to-date textual information which is hard to find in a single place. The book offers readers an extensive set of annotated texts that invite close engagement with the detail of the Older Scots language.« less