The legal language of Scottish burghs : standardization and lexical bundles (1380-1560) /
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Oxford University Press,
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Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
Publication Dates: | [2013] |
Literature type: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Oxford studies in language and law.
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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. |