The Celtic Languages
Part of Cambridge Language Surveys
- Editor: Donald MacAulay, University of Glasgow
- Date Published: February 1993
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521231275
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This volume describes the six modern Celtic languages. Four of these, Modern Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh and Breton, are living community languages. The other two, Manx and Cornish, survived into the modern period, but are no longer extant as community languages, though they are the subject of enthusiastic revivals. The Celtic Languages sets them briefly in their Indo-European context, and states their general relationships within the broader Celtic language family. Individual linguistic studies are first placed in their sociolinguistic and sociohistorical context. A detailed synchronic account of each language then follows, including syntax, morphology, phonology, morphophonology, dialect variation and distribution. Each description is based on a common plan, thus facilitating comparison amongst the different languages. This latest volume in the Cambridge Language Surveys will be welcomed by all scholars of the Celtic languages, but has also been designed to be accessible to any reader with only a basic knowledge of linguistics. It is the only modern account to deal with all surviving Celtic languages in this detail.
Read more- No other book deals with a full range of modern Celtic languages
- Accessible not only to advanced linguist but designed to be intelligible also to those with an interest in these languages at a more general level
- Brings out the links between these languages in an effective way. The Green series is instantly recognisable, and people have been waiting for this volume for a long time
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- Date Published: February 1993
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521231275
- length: 488 pages
- dimensions: 237 x 158 x 40 mm
- weight: 0.915kg
- contains: 7 maps
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. The Celtic languages: an overview
Part I. The Gaelic Languages:
3. The Irish language
4. The Manx language
5. The Scottish Gaelic language
Part II. The Brittonic Languages:
6. The Welsh language
7. The Cornish language
8. The Breton language.
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