366 Pages
by
Routledge
366 Pages
by
Routledge
366 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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
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
Biography
Paul Russell
