Seminar für Englische Philologie
Universität Göttingen
Here is a selective bibliography containing some publications important for
the study of Scots as well as English language and literature in Scotland. The list is divided into three parts.
Contents:
1. DICTIONARIES
Craigie, W. A., ed.,
A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue from the Twelfth Century to the End of the Seventeenth, 12 vols. (Chicago, IL, et al., 1937-2002)
Grant, W., ed.,
The Scottish National Dictionary, 10 vols. (Edinburgh, 1931-1976)
Robinson, M., ed.,
The Concise Scots Dictionary (Aberdeen, 1985)
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2. LANGUAGE
Aitken, A. J., and T. McArthur, ed.,
Languages of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1979)
Burchfield, R., ed.,
The Cambridge History of the English Language vol. V: English in Britain and Overseas (Cambridge, 1994)
Corbett, J., J. D. McClure, and J. Stuart-Smith, ed.,
The Edinburgh Companion to Scots (Edinburgh, 2003)
Görlach, M.,
A Textual History of Scots (Heidelberg, 2002)
Jones, C., ed.,
The Edinburgh History of the Scots Language (Edinburgh, 1997)
Jones, C.,
The English Language in Scotland: an Introduction to Scots (East Linton, 2002)
Kay, B.,
Scots: the Mither Tongue (London, 1986)
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3. LITERATURE
Aitken, A. J., M. P. McDiarmid, and D. S. Thompson, ed.,
Bards and Makars: Scottish Language and Literature: Medieval and Renaissance (Glasgow, 1977)
Craig, C., et al., ed.,
The History of Scottish Literature, 4 vols. (Aberdeen, 1987-8)
Lindsay, M.,
History of Scottish Literature (London, 1977)
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