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This Study Offers A Unique Combination Of Two Methodological Frameworks: A Rigorous Corpus-driven Data Analysis, And A Pragmaphilological, Context-sensitive Qualitative Interpretation Of The Findings. Providing The Reader With A Rich Socio-historical Background Of Legal Discourse In Medieval And Early Modern Scottish Burghs, This Monograph Traces The Links Between Orality, Literacy, And Law, Which Are Reflected In Discourse Features And Linguistic Standardization Of Legal And Administrative Texts. Introduction: Scots As The Language Of The Law -- The Language Of Legal Texts -- Exploring Language Of The Past: Context, Discourse And Text -- Repetition, Fixedness And Lexical Bundles -- Burghs In Scottish History -- Living In A Burgh -- Law And The Burgh -- Edhew Corpus Material And Lexical Bundles -- The Grammar Of Lexical Bundles In Early Legal Scots -- Binomials And Multinomials In Early Legal Scots -- Short Bundles: Functional Properties -- Long Bundles: Functional Properties And Standardization. Joanna Kopaczyk. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 293-318) And Indexes.