«Ane end of an auld song?»

Sarah van Eyndhoven is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Canterbury. Her current research examines correspondence from early Scottish immigrants to New Zealand and the role of changing identities in Scots use. Her previous research has examined historical Scots in Older and early Modern periods using statistical methodologies.

• List of Figures - List of Tables - Preface - Acknowledgements - List of Abbreviations - Introduction - Chapter 1 ‘For the Union makes us strong?’: Cause, concern and consequence in the lead up to the Union of Parliaments - Chapter 2 ‘A small intermixture of provincial peculiarities may, perhaps, have an agreeable effect’: Scots, its history and its status by 1700 - Chapter 3 ‘Using the present to explain the past?’ Historical sociolinguistics, the Three Waves and political identity as tools for diachronic corpus investigation - Chapter 4 From documents to database: The identification, digitisation and compilation of archival material into a text-searchable novel corpus - Chapter 5 ‘We can never expect a more favourable juncture for completing this Union, than at present’: Frequencies of Scots during and beyond the Union debates - Chapter 6 MCA and brms: A two-fold statistical approach to multifactor regression analysis of historical written Scots use and the role of political identity - Chapter 7 ‘I think I have quite wearied you and almost myself too by soe long a scroll’: A micro-analysis into intra-writer variation and the role of political and stylistic goals in written Scots use - Chapter 8 Eighteenth-century written Scots through macro and micro perspectives - Chapter 9 Swansong or key-change? Concluding thoughts on written Scots at the turn of the century - Bibliography - Appendices