An Introduction To The Celtic Languages
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An Introduction to the Celtic Languages
Author | : Paul Russell |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 2014-07-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781317894568 |
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This text provides a single-volume, single-author general introduction to the Celtic languages. The first half of the book considers the historical background of the language group as a whole. There follows a discussion of the two main sub-groups of Celtic, Goidelic (comprising Irish, Scottish, Gaelic and Manx) and Brittonic (Welsh, Cornish and Breton) together with a detailed survey of one representative from each group, Irish and Welsh. The second half considers a range of linguistic features which are often regarded as characteristic of Celtic: spelling systems, mutations, verbal nouns and word order.
The Celtic Languages
Author | : Martin J. Ball,Nicole Muller |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 700 |
Release | : 2012-11-12 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9781136854729 |
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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
Arthur in the Celtic Languages
Author | : Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan,Erich Poppe |
Publsiher | : University of Wales Press |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 2019-01-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781786833440 |
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This is the first comprehensive authoritative survey of Arthurian literature and traditions in the Celtic languages of Welsh, Cornish, Breton, Irish and Scottish Gaelic. With contributions by leading and emerging specialists in the field, the volume traces the development of the legends that grew up around Arthur and have been constantly reworked and adapted from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. It shows how the figure of Arthur evolved from the leader of a warband in early medieval north Britain to a king whose court becomes the starting-point for knightly adventures, and how characters and tales are reimagined, reshaped and reinterpreted according to local circumstances, traditions and preoccupations at different periods. From the celebrated early Welsh poetry and prose tales to less familiar modern Breton and Cornish fiction, from medieval Irish adaptations of the legend to the Gaelic ballads of Scotland, Arthur in the Celtic Languages provides an indispensable, up-to-date guide of a vast and complex body of Arthurian material, and to recent research and criticism.
The Celtic Languages in Contact
Author | : Hildegard L. C. Tristram |
Publsiher | : Universitätsverlag Potsdam |
Total Pages | : 347 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Celtic languages |
ISBN | : 9783940793072 |
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Celtic Linguistics Ieithyddiaeth Geltaidd
Author | : Martin J. Ball,James Fife,Erich Poppe,Jenny Rowland |
Publsiher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 1990-01-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027278302 |
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This collection of papers on the Brythonic languages of the Celtic group is divided into four parts: Welsh linguistics, Breton and Cornish linguistics, literary linguistics, and historical linguistics. This has resulted in a book providing a thorough and comprehensive coverage of this branch of Celtic studies prepared by leading scholars in the field.
An Introduction to the Celtic Languages
Author | : Paul Russell |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 2014-07-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781317894551 |
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This text provides a single-volume, single-author general introduction to the Celtic languages. The first half of the book considers the historical background of the language group as a whole. There follows a discussion of the two main sub-groups of Celtic, Goidelic (comprising Irish, Scottish, Gaelic and Manx) and Brittonic (Welsh, Cornish and Breton) together with a detailed survey of one representative from each group, Irish and Welsh. The second half considers a range of linguistic features which are often regarded as characteristic of Celtic: spelling systems, mutations, verbal nouns and word order.
The Syntax of the Celtic Languages
Author | : Robert D. Borsley,Ian G. Roberts |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 1996-03-28 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9780521481601 |
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This 1996 volume brings together ten chapters on the Celtic languages using the insights of principles-and-parameters theory. The leading researchers in the field examine Welsh, Irish, Breton and Scots Gaelic in comparative perspective, making reference to recent work on English, French, Arabic, German and other languages. The editors have provided a substantial introduction which seeks to make the volume accessible to theoreticians unfamiliar with the Celtic languages and also to Celtic specialists who are less familiar with the theoretical framework underpinning the work. The Syntax of the Celtic Languages makes a substantial contribution both to linguistic theory and to our understanding of the Celtic languages.
English and Celtic in Contact
Author | : Markku Filppula,Juhani Klemola,Heli Paulasto |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 2008-06-03 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781134501724 |
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This book provides the first comprehensive account of the history and extent of Celtic influences in English. Drawing on both original research and existing work, it covers both the earliest medieval contacts and their linguistic effects and the reflexes of later, early modern and modern contacts, especially various regional varieties of English.