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

• Offers an innovative, corpus-driven approach to historical legal discourse
• The first monograph to examine textual standardization patterns in legal and administrative texts on the basis of lexical bundles, drawn from a comprehensive corpus of medieval and early modern legal texts
• Focuses on Scottish legal texts, which were written in the vernacular (Scots) at the time when in England such texts were still written in Latin and/or French
• Offers a pragmaphilological outlook informed by a rigorous quantitative data collection