Edinburgh Studies in English and Scots

This collection of linguistic essays come from various members of several departments of the University of Edinburgh, exemplifying the range of work on English and Scots carried out during the 1960's.

Contents:

Old and Middle English:

Kent and the Low Countries; A dialect word in some West Midland manuscripts.

Early Modern English:

Not wreton with penne and ynke - Problems of selection facing the English Printer.

The grammar of Jealousy: A note of the character of Leontes

Modern English:

Some proposals concerning the modal verb in English.

This familiar regressive series: Aspects of style in the novels of Kingsley Amis

Phonetics:

Some functions of silent stress.

Scots:

The Dutch element in the vocabulary of Scots

Variation and variety in written Middle Scots

Early spellings and Scottish place-names

The case for early Scottish literature.

 

 

 

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