Celtic Linguistics / Ieithyddiaeth Geltaidd

Celtic Linguistics / Ieithyddiaeth Geltaidd
Author: Martin J. Ball
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 496
Release: 1990-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 902727830X

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

An Introduction to the Celtic Languages
Author: Paul Russell
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 382
Release: 2014-07-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1317894553

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

The Celtic Languages
Author: Martin J. Ball
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 700
Release: 2012-11-12
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 113685472X

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

Arthur in the Celtic Languages
Author: Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Total Pages: 434
Release: 2019-01-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1786833441

• Arthur in the Celtic Languages is a reliable up-to-date introduction to the field. • It is the only book covering Arthurian literature and traditions in the Celtic languages (Welsh, Cornish, Breton, Irish, Scottish Gaelic) • This book covers medieval and modern literatures. • It also discusses folklore, ballads and other popular traditions as well as place-names.

The Celtic Languages

The Celtic Languages
Author: Donald MacAulay
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 492
Release: 1992
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9780521231275

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

Morphosyntactic Variation in Medieval Celtic Languages

Morphosyntactic Variation in Medieval Celtic Languages
Author: Elliott Lash
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 431
Release: 2020-10-12
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110680793

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 Origins of the Irish

The Origins of the Irish
Author: J. P. Mallory
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2013-04-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0500771405

An essential new history of ancient Ireland and the Irish, written as an engrossing detective story About eighty million people today can trace their descent back to the occupants of Ireland. But where did the occupants of the island themselves come from and what do we even mean by “Irish” in the first place? This is the first major attempt to deal with the core issues of how the Irish came into being. J. P. Mallory emphasizes that the Irish did not have a single origin, but are a product of multiple influences that can only be tracked by employing the disciplines of archaeology, genetics, geology, linguistics, and mythology. Beginning with the collision that fused the two halves of Ireland together, the book traces Ireland’s long journey through space and time to become an island. The origins of its first farmers and their monumental impact on the island is followed by an exploration of how metallurgists in copper, bronze, and iron brought Ireland into increasingly wider orbits of European culture. Assessments of traditional explanations of Irish origins are combined with the very latest genetic research into the biological origins of the Irish.

The Syntax of the Modern Celtic Languages

The Syntax of the Modern Celtic Languages
Author: Randall Hendrick
Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
Total Pages: 262
Release: 1990
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9780126135237

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.

Formal Approaches to Celtic Linguistics

Formal Approaches to Celtic Linguistics
Author: Andrew Cairnie
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 425
Release: 2011-05-25
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1443830518

This collection brings together the latest research into the syntax, semantics, phonology, phonetics and morphology of the Celtic languages. Based on presentations given at the Formal Approaches to Celtic Linguistics Conference in 2009, this book contains articles by leading Celtic linguists on Breton, Modern Irish, Old Irish, Scottish Gaelic, and Welsh, on a wide variety of topics ranging from the syntax and semantics of clefts to the articulatory phonology of fortis sonorants.