The Celtic LanguagesMartin John Ball, James Fife This comprehensive volume describes in depth all the Celtic languages from historical, structural and sociolinguistic perspectives, with individual chapters on Irish, Scottish, Gaelic, Manx, Welsh, Breton and Cornish. Special Features: |
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... GILLIES 6 Manx GEORGE BRODERICK 100 101 145 228 Part 3 The Brythonic Languages 287 7 Welsh 289 T. ARWYN WATKINS 8 Breton JANIG STEPHENS 9 Cornish KEN GEORGE 349 410 Part 4 The Sociolinguistics of the Celtic Languages 469 10.
... historical background 606 HUMPHREY LLOYD HUMPHREYS 14 The Revived languages : Modern Cornish and Modern Manx 644 KEN GEORGE AND GEORGE BRODERICK Index 665 Abbreviations adj . abl . acc . ablative accusative adjective vi CONTENTS.
... Manx Sanskrit Myc . Mycenean Greek Slavic n . neuter soft mutation N Norse Spanish nas . nasal subject neg . negative subordinal NM nasal mutation conjunction nom . nominative subject obj . OCS object suffix Old Church Slavonic Og.Ir ...
... Manx ( Broderick ) , while Part 3 covers Welsh ( Watkins ) , Breton ( Stephens ) and Cornish ( George ) . The Celtic group of languages is distinguished from most others in the Indo - European family in that all the surviving languages ...
... ( Manx and Cornish ) have over the last hundred years or so been subject to various attempts at revival , and the current state of these ' revived ' languages is described in the final chapter ( Broderick and George ) . This book has had ...
Contents
Introduction | 8 |
Continental Celtic | 26 |
Insular Celtic P and Q Celtic | 64 |
The Goidelic Languages | 99 |
Irish | 101 |
Scottish Gaelic | 145 |
MANX | 228 |
The Brythonic Languages | 287 |
Cornish | 410 |
The Sociolinguistics of the Celtic Languages | 469 |
Aspects of the Societal Status of Modern Irish | 471 |
Scottish Gaelic Today Social History and Contemporary Status | 491 |
The Sociolinguistics of Welsh | 534 |
The Breton Language its Present Position and Historical Background | 604 |
The Revived Languages Modern Cornish and Modern Manx | 642 |
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