Robert McColl Millar is Professor in Linguistics and Scots Language at the University of Aberdeen. His particular interests lie in the present use and history of Scots, in social dialectology and in the effects of language contact. His books include Northern and Insular Scots (Edinburgh University Press, 2007), Modern Scots: An Analytical Survey (Edinburgh University Press, 2018) and A Sociolinguistic History of Scotland (Edinburgh University Press, 2020).

The result is a volume that brings together an incredible breadth of material from across the linguistic fields, incorporating an extensive historical timeline with purely linguistic developments and changes.

• 1: What is Scots? 2: Historical and linguistic backgrounds: the Germanic languages, Old English and the pre-Scots period 3: Scots in the Medieval and Early Modern periods 4: Scots in decline? The Modern Age 5: Historical phonology of Scots 6: Historical morphosyntax of Scots 7: Historical development of Scots lexis 8: Conclusions

Robert McColl Millar is Professor in Linguistics and Scots Language at the University of Aberdeen. His particular interests lie in the present use and history of Scots, in social dialectology and in the effects of language contact. His books include Northern and Insular Scots (Edinburgh University Press, 2007), Modern Scots: An Analytical Survey (Edinburgh University Press, 2018) and A Sociolinguistic History of Scotland (Edinburgh University Press, 2020).

The result is a volume that brings together an incredible breadth of material from across the linguistic fields, incorporating an extensive historical timeline with purely linguistic developments and changes.

• 1: What is Scots? 2: Historical and linguistic backgrounds: the Germanic languages, Old English and the pre-Scots period 3: Scots in the Medieval and Early Modern periods 4: Scots in decline? The Modern Age 5: Historical phonology of Scots 6: Historical morphosyntax of Scots 7: Historical development of Scots lexis 8: Conclusions