Author : S. J. Hannahs
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 23,35 MB
Release : 2013-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0199601232
The first comprehensive account of Welsh phonology opens with a concise history of the language and its relation to the other Celtic languages. Six chapters then explore its sound system, including the phonetic background, syllables, feet, phonotactics, and stress, and the characteristics of the dialects.
Author : Martin John Ball
Publisher :
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 30,54 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN :
This work brings together in one volume the results of existing studies on the speech sounds of Welsh. It includes dialect studies of the Welsh of different districts, some of them dating back to the second half of the 19th century, while others adopt more structuralist and generative approaches.
Author : Micha Luther
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 15,15 MB
Release : 2014-11-06
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 3656831858
Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,0, University of Freiburg, language: English, abstract: The Welsh language has been in contact with English for many centuries. After the Celtic languages were forced out of central Europe during the age of the Roman Empire two branches developed: Goidelic (or Q Celtic) and Brittonic (or P Celtic), with Welsh belonging to the Brittonic branch. Since the fifth century Welsh has been under pressure as other Germanic-speaking tribes such as the Angles and Saxons arrived in Britain. The Welsh speaking population had to relocate in the area we today call Wales. What followed was a long process of anglicisation.
Author : Thomas Herbert Parry-Williams
Publisher :
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 35,57 MB
Release : 1913
Category : Celtic languages
ISBN :
Author : Sir Thomas Herbert Parry-Williams
Publisher :
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 26,78 MB
Release : 1913
Category : Breton language
ISBN :
Author : Peter Schrijver
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 49,65 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9789051838206
The languages belonging to the British subgroup of Celtic, i.e. Welsh, Cornish and Breton, have been the subject of thorough research for over a century now. Yet the phonological history of the prehistoric stages of these languages and the details of their connection with the other Celtic and Indo-European languages still present numerous unsolved issues. This volume aims to tackle the most acute problems of the historical phonology of British Celtic. Also it provides an up-to-date reference guide to British historical phonology in general, as well as a study of a large body of etymologies relevant to the correct evaluation of the historical phonology. This volume is of interest for the Celtologist, the Indo-Europeanist and the general historical linguist.
Author : Martin J. Ball
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 12,71 MB
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : 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.
Author : J. C. Wells
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 27,4 MB
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1107074703
Sounds Interesting explores a range of current and widely researched topics such as pronunciation, teaching, intonation, spelling, and accents.
Author : Robert D. Borsley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 22,48 MB
Release : 2012-09-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107407619
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.
Author : Martin J. Ball
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 33,39 MB
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : 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
