An Introduction to the Celtic Languages
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.
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An Introduction to the Celtic Languages
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.
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An Introduction to the Celtic Languages

An Introduction to the Celtic Languages

by Paul Russell
An Introduction to the Celtic Languages

An Introduction to the Celtic Languages

by Paul Russell

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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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781138144286
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 07/10/2016
Series: Longman Linguistics Library
Pages: 366
Product dimensions: 5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
The periods of the Celtic languages

1. The Historical background to the Celtic Languages
2. The Goidelic Languages
3. Irish
4. The Brittonic Languages
5. Welsh
6. The orthographies of the Celtic Languages
7. Lenition and mutations: phonetics, phonology and morphology
8. Verbal nouns, verbs and nouns
9. Word order in the Celtic languages

References
Index
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