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. Organized for ease of reference, The Celtic Languages is arranged in four parts. The first, Historical Aspects, covers the origin and history of the Celtic languages, their spread and retreat, present-day distribution and a sketch of the extant and recently extant languages. Parts II and III describe the structural detail of each language, including phonology, mutation, morphology, syntax, dialectology and lexis. The final part provides wide-ranging sociolinguistic detail, such as areas of usage (in government, church, media, education, business), maintenance (institutional support offered), and prospects for survival (examination of demographic changes and how they affect these languages). Special Features: * Presents the first modern, comprehensive linguistic description of this important language family * Provides a full discussion of the likely progress of Irish, Welsh and Breton * Includes the most recent research on newly discovered Continental Celtic inscriptions |
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... - verb - object Tocharian PC Proto - Celtic voice perf . perfect vedic pl . plural verb ( al ) -noun pluperf . pluperfect vocative pos . position Welsh poss . possessive Zedacheg prep . preposition Vill ABBREVIATIONS.
... - verb - object Tocharian PC Proto - Celtic voice perf . perfect vedic pl . plural verb ( al ) -noun pluperf . pluperfect vocative pos . position Welsh poss . possessive Zedacheg prep . preposition Vill ABBREVIATIONS.
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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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Common terms and phrases
adjective adverb areas auxiliary bilingual Botorrita Breton British Brittany Brythonic Cardiff Celtiberian Celtic languages Celtic Studies Celtiques Celtische Philologie cent century clauses common consonant Continental Celtic copula dative definite article dialects Dublin English example feminine French Gaelic speakers Gaeltacht Gaulish gender genitive Goidelic grammar Hispano-Celtic Indo-European inflected initial inscriptions Insular Celtic language shift Late Cornish Latin Lenaig lenition Lepontic linguistic Literary Welsh loanwords masculine Middle Cornish Middle Welsh Modern Irish nasal negative nominative noun phrase occur Ogam Old Irish orthography palatalized particle periphrastic phonemes phonological plural population position preposition preterite pronominal pronoun Schmidt schools Scottish Gaelic sentence soft mutation stressed suffix syllables syntax Table taigh tense third-person singular tion unstressed verb verb-noun verbal noun vowel Wales Welsh language Welsh Language Board Welsh speakers words Yann Zeitschrift für Celtische