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J. Derrick McClure

Author of The Edinburgh Companion to Scots

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Image credit: Forum for Research on the Languages of Scotland and Ulster

Works by J. Derrick McClure

The Edinburgh Companion to Scots (2003) — Editor — 17 copies

Why Scots Matters (1988) 15 copies

Minority Languages Today: A Selection from the Papers Read at the First International Conference on Minority Languages… (1981) — Editor — 10 copies

Language, Poetry and Nationhood: Scots as a Poetic Language from 1878 to the Present (2000) 7 copies

Scots and its literature (1995) 4 copies

Doonsin' Emerauds: New Scrieves Anent Scots and Gaelic / New Studies in Scots and Gaelic (Belfast Studies in… (2004) — Author — 4 copies

Minority Languages in Central Scotland (Association for Scottish Literary Studies occasional paper) (1983) 4 copies

Why Scots Matters (not this cover) (2009) 3 copies

Doric : the dialect of North-East Scotland (2002) 3 copies

Bryght Lanternis: Language and Literature of Mediaeval and Renaissance Scotland (1989) 3 copies

The Scots language : planning for modern usage (1980) 2 copies

A kist o skinklan things : an anthology of Scots poetry from the first and second waves of the Scottish Renaissance (2017) 2 copies

Scottish language 24 1 copy

Scottish Language 21 1 copy

Scottish Language 20 1 copy

Scottish Language 14/15: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on the Languages of Scotland and Ulster,… 1 copy

"What countrey's this? and whither are we gone?" papers presented at the twelfth International Conference on the… (2010) 1 copy

Associated Works

A Companion to the History of the English Language (2008) — Contributor — 15 copies

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Birthdate: 1944-07-20
Gender: male
Nationality: UK
Education: University of Glasgow
University of Edinburgh
Occupations: Academic

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Works: 17
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Members: 79
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Rating: 4.1

ISBNs: 23

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