Perspectives on the Older Scottish Tongue

Christian Kay; Margaret Mackay

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2005

Perspectives on the Older Scottish Tongue

Christian Kay and Margaret Mackay

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474469708

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This book celebrates the rich diversity of the Scots language and the culture it embodies. It marks two important events in Scots language scholarship: the completion of the Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (DOST) in 2001 and the publication of its final volumes in 2002. The thirteen chapters which comprise the volume cover many aspects of Scottish life as illuminated by the words used to describe them. The writers, experts in their own fields, are linked by the fact that they have all made use of the wealth of information in DOST to advance their research. Their topics include the use of DOST in reading literature, in tracing the consumption of cereals and wine in early Scotland, in elucidating place names and terms used in shipping, building and measurement, and in defining such complex concepts as homicide and the role of the 'gossip'. Nor is the history and structure of the dictionary itself forgotten. There is a study of its development from its beginnings in the 1920s, together with biographical notes on its editors over the years. There are also chapters drawing comparisons with the Middle English Dictionary, the Linguistic Atlas of Older Scots and the proposed historical dictionary of Scottish Gaelic. The book will thus appeal to those interested in the history of Scots and Scotland, and to those with a more general interest in the history of languages and development of dictionaries.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Editors’ Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
CHAPTER 1 Introduction Alasdair A. MacDonald Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
CHAPTER 2 DOST and the Literary Scholar Priscilla Bawcutt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	5
CHAPTER 3 The History and Development of DOST M. G. Dareau Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	18
CHAPTER 4 ‘There is Nothing Like a Good Gossip’: Baptism, Kinship and Alliance in Early Modern Scotland Jane E. A. Dawson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	38
CHAPTER 5 ‘Wyne Confortative’: Wine in Scotland from the Thirteenth till the Eighteenth Centuries Alexander Fenton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	48
CHAPTER 6 Law and Lexicography: DOST and Late Medieval and Early Modern Scottish Shipping Law A. D. M. Forte Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
CHAPTER 7 Cereal Terms in the DOST Record Iseabail Macleod Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	73
CHAPTER 8 The Spread of a Word: Scail in Scots and Sgaoil in Gaelic Donald E. Meek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	84
CHAPTER 9 Place Names as Evidence in the History of Scots W. F. H. Nicolaisen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	112
CHAPTER 10 DOST and MED and the Virtues of Sibling Rivalry Paul Schaffner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
CHAPTER 11 Was it Murder? John Comyn of Badenoch and William, Earl of Douglas W. D. H. Sellar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	132
CHAPTER 12 Interpreting Scots Measurement Terms: a Cautionary Tale A. D. C. Simpson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
CHAPTER 13 The Use of the Scottish National Dictionaries in the Study of Traditional Construction Bruce Walker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
CHAPTER 14 DOST and LAOS: a Caledonian Symbiosis? Keith Williamson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
CHAPTER 15 Envoi William Gillies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
APPENDIX I The Editors of DOST M. G. Dareau and K. L. Pike Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	204
APPENDIX 2 Contributors to this volume Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	214
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	225

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 240
Keywords: Language & Linguistics

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Published: April 15, 2005
ISBN: 9781474469708