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      Linguistic Contact and Language Change

      Robert McColl Millar

      Speakers of different languages come into contact; their languages influence each other. This textbook investigates this reality in modern and historical contexts. Each central theme introduces an in-depth, real-world case…

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      Linguistic Contact and Language Change

      Robert McColl Millar

      Speakers of different languages come into contact; their languages influence each other. This textbook investigates this reality in modern and historical contexts. Each central theme introduces an in-depth, real-world case…

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      A History of the Scots Language

      Robert McColl Millar

      This book provides a thorough yet approachable history of the Scots language, a close relative of Standard English. Robert McColl Millar explores both sociolinguistic and structural developments in the history…

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      A History of the Scots Language

      Robert McColl Millar

      This book provides a thorough yet approachable history of the Scots language, a close relative of Standard English. Robert McColl Millar explores both sociolinguistic and structural developments in the history…

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      English Historical Sociolinguistics

      Robert McColl Millar

      Many attempts have been made to use sociolinguistics to interpret historical linguistic change but the theory has rarely been applied consistently. This textbook allows students to develop a deeper understanding…

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      English Historical Sociolinguistics

      Robert McColl Millar

      Provides students with a more profound understanding of the sociolinguistic forces which initiate or encourage language change.

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      Contact: The Interaction of Closely Related Linguistic Varieties and the History of English

      Robert McColl Millar

      Much has been written on dialect formation through contact between dialects of the same language, but the question of what happens when closely related but linguistically discrete varieties come into…

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      Modern Scots: An Analytical Survey

      Robert McColl Millar

      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…

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      Modern Scots: An Analytical Survey

      Robert McColl Millar

      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…

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      Contact: The Interaction of Closely Related Linguistic Varieties and the History of English

      Robert McColl Millar

      Much has been written on dialect formation through contact between dialects of the same language, but the question of what happens when closely related but linguistically discrete varieties come into…

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      A Sociolinguistic History of Scotland

      Robert McColl Millar

      Robert McColl Millar examines how language has been used in Scotland since the earliest times. While primarily focusing on the histories of the speakers of Scots and Gaelic, and their…

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      A Sociolinguistic History of Scotland

      Robert McColl Millar

      Robert McColl Millar examines how language has been used in Scotland since the earliest times. While primarily focusing on the histories of the speakers of Scots and Gaelic, and their…

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      System Collapse, System Rebirth

      Robert McColl Millar

      In conventional histories of English, the development of a discrete definite article in the late Old English and early Middle English periods has been barely touched upon. On many occasions…

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      Trask’s Historical Linguistics

      Robert McColl Millar, R L Trask

      Trask's Historical Linguistics provides an accessible introduction to historical linguistics - the study of language change over time. This fourth edition of this renowned textbook is fully revised and updated…

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      Trask’s Historical Linguistics

      Robert McColl Millar, R L Trask

      Trask's Historical Linguistics provides an accessible introduction to historical linguistics - the study of language change over time. This fourth edition of this renowned textbook is fully revised and updated…

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      Lexical Variation and Attrition in the Scottish Fishing Communities

      Robert McColl Millar,William Barras,Lisa Bonnici

      Over the last half century many scholars have recorded, analysed and theorised language death. This book presents a theoretical and methodological analysis of whether language death and dialect death can…

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      Northern and Insular Scots

      Robert McColl Millar

      The Scots dialects of northern Scotland, Orkney and Shetland are among the most traditional varieties of ‘English’. Northern and Insular Scots provides an approachable description of the phonological, structural and…

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      Northern and Insular Scots

      Robert McColl Millar

      The Scots dialects of northern Scotland, Orkney and Shetland are among the most traditional varieties of ‘English’. Northern and Insular Scots provides an approachable description of the phonological, structural and…

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