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