Download or read book The Celtic Languages written by Martin J. Ball and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Download or read book An Introduction to the Celtic Languages written by Paul Russell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book The Origins and Development of the Insular Celtic Verbal Complex written by Kim McCone and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Papers from the Fourth International Conference on Historical Linguistics Stanford March 26 30 1979 written by Elizabeth Closs Traugott and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The studies in this volume are revised versions of a selection from the papers presented at the Fourth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, held at Stanford University on 26–30 March 1979. Papers at this conference, and in this volume, treat aspects of all current topics in historical linguistics, including topics that are only recently considered relevant, such as acquisition, structure, and language use.

Download or read book Papers from the 4th International Conference on Historical Linguistics written by Elizabeth Closs Traugott and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The studies in this volume are revised versions of a selection from the papers presented at the Fourth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, held at Stanford University on 26 30 March 1979. Papers at this conference, and in this volume, treat aspects of all current topics in historical linguistics, including topics that are only recently considered relevant, such as acquisition, structure, and language use.

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Download or read book Studies in Brythonic Word Order written by James Fife and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1991-11-30 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While Celtic languages are nominally VSO in basic word order, the languages of the Brythonic branch have exhibited striking synchronic and historical variations from the prototype. This volume comprises the very latest research in word order in Welsh, reton and Cornish from nine of the leading scholars in the field. The studies deal with historical, typological and descriptive issues from several approaches (including philological, functional and government and binding). The scope ranges over all the Brythonic languages, as well as the entire diachronic spectrum from the proto-language up to the most recent colloquial trends. The volume provides the expert with a collection of state-of-the-art research and the non-specialist with a comprehensive survey of the problems and debates in a language grouping fraught with intricate questions of word order and word order change.

Download or read book The Hittite Mediopassive Endings in ri written by Kazuhiko Yoshida and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 1990 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Syntax of Welsh written by Robert D. Borsley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-10-18 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welsh, like the other Celtic languages, is best known amongst linguists for its verb-initial word order and its use of initial consonant mutations. However it has many more characteristics which are of interest to syntacticians. This book, first published in 2007, provides a concise and accessible overview of the major syntactic phenomena of Welsh. A broad variety of topics are covered, including finite and infinitival clauses, noun phrases, agreement and tense, word order, clause structure, dialect variation, and the language's historical Celtic background. Drawing on work carried out in both Principles and Parameters theory and Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar, it takes contemporary colloquial Welsh as its starting point and draws contrasts with a range of literary and dialectal forms of the language, as well as earlier forms (Middle Welsh) were appropriate. An engaging guide to all that is interesting about Welsh syntax, this book will be welcomed by syntactic theorists, typologists, historical linguists and Celticists alike.

Download or read book The Collected Writings of Warren Cowgill written by Warren Cowgill and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains all the published articles and reviews, plus a selection of previously unpublished material, by one of the 20th century's greatest linguists, the late Yale University professor Warren Cowgill (1929-1985). Cowgill's dazzling mastery of the entire Indo-European linguistic world is on full display, with every work a model of expert methodology and depth of thinking. Two previously unpublished pieces, one on the origin of the z-pronouns in Germanic and the other the full version of his article on the personal endings of thematic verbs in Indo-European, appear here for the first time. The volume also includes over a half-dozen personal reminiscences by former colleagues and students, plus a valuable and engaging autobiographical letter written shortly before Cowgill's untimely death. Each article has been carefully retypeset and edited to give a handsome and unified look to the volume.

Download or read book Papers from the International Conference on Historical Linguistics written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Towards an Interpretation of the Hispano Celtic Inscription of Botorrita written by Joseph F. Eska and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Studia Celtica written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 1060 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies written by University of Wales. Board of Celtic Studies and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes glosses of the Welsh language, bardic vocabulary, etc.

Download or read book Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual UCLA Indo European Conference written by Karlene Jones-Bley and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victor H. Mair: Recent Physical Anthropological Studies of the Tarim Basin Mummies and Related PopulationsPaul-Louis van Berg: Spit in My Mouth, Glaukos: A Greek Indo-European Tale about Ill-gotten KnowledgeMiriam Robbins Dexter and Victor H. Mair: Apotropaia and Fecundity in Eurasian Myth and Iconography: Erotic Female Display FiguresStephanie W. Jamison: Linguistic Aspects of the Persona of the ?Gatha Poet?Jared Klein: Notes on Categories and Subtypes of Phonological Repetition in the Rig VedaHans Henrich Hock: The Insular Celtic Absolute: Conjunct Distinction Once Again A Prosodic ProposalGeorge E. Dunkel: Latin -pte, -pe, -per, -pseIE Limiting *-po-te, *-pe-r, and *poti- 'master?Yaroslav Gorbachov: The Origin of the Phrygian Aorist of the Type edaesValentina Cambi: The Hittite Adverb karu 'formerly, earlieralready?Olga Thomason: Location, Direction, and Source in Biblical Greek, Gothic, Old Church Slavonic, and Classical ArmenianHyejoon Yoon: The Substantive Present Participles in ?nd- in Gothic: With the Survey of Other Old Germanic LanguagesJoshua T. Katz: To Turn a Blind Eel.