The Celtic Languages

The Celtic Languages

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  • Author: Martin J. Ball
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 113685472X
  • Category : Foreign Language Study
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 700

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


The Celtic Languages

The Celtic Languages

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  • Author: Donald MacAulay
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 9780521231275
  • Category : Foreign Language Study
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 492

The only modern account to describe all surviving Celtic languages in detail.


An Introduction to the Celtic Languages

An Introduction to the Celtic Languages

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  • Author: Paul Russell
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1317894553
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 382

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.


Arthur in the Celtic Languages

Arthur in the Celtic Languages

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  • Author: Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan
  • Publisher: University of Wales Press
  • ISBN: 1786833441
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 434

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 Decline of the Celtic Languages

The Decline of the Celtic Languages

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  • Author: Victor Edward Durkacz
  • Publisher: J. Donald
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Celtic languages
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 284

This study of linguistic and cultural conflict in Wales, Scotland and Ireland shows how their forms of Gaelic retreated before the advance of the English language in the British Isles from the Reformation to the 20th century.


Celtic Linguistics / Ieithyddiaeth Geltaidd

Celtic Linguistics / Ieithyddiaeth Geltaidd

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  • Author: Martin J. Ball
  • Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
  • ISBN: 902727830X
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 470

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.


Morphosyntactic Variation in Medieval Celtic Languages

Morphosyntactic Variation in Medieval Celtic Languages

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  • Author: Elliott Lash
  • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
  • ISBN: 3110680793
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 431

This book showcases the state of the art in the corpus-based linguistics of medieval Celtic languages. Its chapters detail theoretical advances in analysing variation/change in the Celtic languages and computational tools necessary to process/analyse the data. Many contributions situate the Celtic material in the broader field of corpus-based diachronic linguistics. The application of computational methods to Celtic languages is in its infancy and this book is a first in medieval Celtic Studies, which has mainly concentrated on philological endeavours such as editorial and literary work. The Celtic languages represent a new frontier in the development of NLP tools because they pose special challenges, like complicated inflectional morphology with non-straightforward mappings between lemmata and attested forms, irregular orthography, and consonant mutations. With so much data available in non-electronic form and ongoing efforts to convert these data to computer-readable format, there is much room for the developing/testing of new tools. This books provides an overview of this process at a crucial time in the development of the field and aims to the data accessible to computational linguists with an interest in diachronic change.


The Syntax of the Celtic Languages

The Syntax of the Celtic Languages

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  • Author: Robert D. Borsley
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 9780521481601
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 380

Leading researchers examine the Celtic languages in comparative perspective, making reference to European and Arabic languages; they use the insights of principles-and-parameters theory. A substantial introduction makes the volume accessible to theoreticians unfamiliar with the Celtic languages and to specialists. The book makes a strong contribution to linguistic theory and to our understanding of the Celtic languages.


The Celtic Languages in Contact

The Celtic Languages in Contact

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  • Author: Hildegard L. C. Tristram
  • Publisher: Universitätsverlag Potsdam
  • ISBN: 3940793078
  • Category : Celtic languages
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 347


The Syntax of the Modern Celtic Languages

The Syntax of the Modern Celtic Languages

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  • Author: Randall Hendrick
  • Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
  • ISBN: 9780126135237
  • Category : Foreign Language Study
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 262

This volume, one of the few devoted to Celtic syntax, makes an important contribution to the description of Celtic, focusing on the ordering of major constituents, pronouns, inflection, compounding, and iode-switching. The articles also address current issues in linguistic theory so that Celticists and theoretical linguists alike find this book valuable.