The legal language of Scottish burghs : standardization and lexical bundles (1380-1560) /
Kopaczyk, Joannaauthor.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-318) and indexes.
Introduction : Scots as the language of the law -- The language of legal texts -- Exploring language of the past : context, discourse and text -- Repetition, fixedness and lexical bundles -- Burghs in Scottish history -- Living in a burgh -- Law and the burgh -- EdHew corpus material and lexical bundles -- The grammar of lexical bundles in early legal Scots -- Binomials and multinomials in early legal Scots -- Short bundles : functional properties -- Long bundles : functional properties and standardization.
Law
Scots language
Scotland