The legal language of Scottish burghs : standardization and lexical bundles (1380-1560) /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kopaczyk, Joanna
Corporate Authors: Oxford University Press.
Published: Oxford University Press,
Publisher Address: New York, NY :
Publication Dates: [2013]
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: Oxford studies in language and law.
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Online Access: http://www.iresearchbook.cn/f/ebook/detail?id=3f7c3eeef6ea4268abb929ba611a2ee7
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (xvi, 337 pages).
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-318) and indexes.
ISBN: 9780199945160
Index Number: KDC296
CLC: D956.17-09
Contents: 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.