A History of the Scots Language

by Robert McColl Millar

This book provides a thorough yet approachable history of the Scots language, a close relative of Standard English with around 1.5 million speakers in Scotland and several thousand in Ireland, according to the 2011 census. Despite the long history of Scots as a language of high literature, it has been somewhat neglected and has often been treated as a dialect of Standard English. In this book, Robert McColl Millar explores both sociolinguistic and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198863993
• ISBN13: 9780198863991
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.0" x 9.5"