The Syntax Of The Celtic Languages

Author : Robert D. Borsley,Ian G. Roberts
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1996-03-28
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780521481601

Get Book

The Syntax of the Celtic Languages by Robert D. Borsley,Ian G. Roberts Pdf

This 1996 volume brings together ten chapters on the Celtic languages using the insights of principles-and-parameters theory. The leading researchers in the field examine Welsh, Irish, Breton and Scots Gaelic in comparative perspective, making reference to recent work on English, French, Arabic, German and other languages. The editors have provided a substantial introduction which seeks to make the volume accessible to theoreticians unfamiliar with the Celtic languages and also to Celtic specialists who are less familiar with the theoretical framework underpinning the work. The Syntax of the Celtic Languages makes a substantial contribution both to linguistic theory and to our understanding of the Celtic languages.

Author : Randall Hendrick
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004373228

Get Book

The Syntax of the Modern Celtic Languages by Randall Hendrick Pdf

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.

Author : Randall Hendrick
Publisher : Brill Academic Pub
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0126135231

Get Book

The Syntax of the Modern Celtic Languages by Randall Hendrick Pdf

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.

Author : Martin J. Ball,Nicole Muller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781136854729

Get Book

The Celtic Languages by Martin J. Ball,Nicole Muller Pdf

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

Author : Andrew Carnie Assistant Professor of Linguistics University of Arizona,Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art Eithne Guilfoyle Head of Humanities, Design and Technology
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2000-05-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780195344011

Get Book

The Syntax of Verb Initial Languages by Andrew Carnie Assistant Professor of Linguistics University of Arizona,Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art Eithne Guilfoyle Head of Humanities, Design and Technology Pdf

This volume contains twelve chapters on the derivation of and the correlates to verb initial word order. The studies in this volume cover such widely divergent languages as Irish, Welsh, Scots Gaelic, Old Irish, Biblical Hebrew, Jakaltek, Mam, Lummi (Straits Salish), Niuean, Malagasy, Palauan, K'echi', and Zapotec, from a wide variety of theoretical perspectives, including Minimalism, information structure, and sentence processing. The first book to take a cross-linguistic comparative approach to verb initial syntax, this volume provides new data to some old problems and debates and explores some innovative approaches to the derivation of verb initial order.

Author : Andrew Cairnie
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443830515

Get Book

Formal Approaches to Celtic Linguistics by Andrew Cairnie Pdf

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.

Author : Hildegard L. C. Tristram
Publisher : Universitätsverlag Potsdam
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Celtic languages
ISBN : 9783940793072

Get Book

The Celtic Languages in Contact by Hildegard L. C. Tristram Pdf

Author : Andrew Carnie,Eithne Guilfoyle
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Grammar, Comparative and general
ISBN : 9780195132229

Get Book

The Syntax of Verb Initial Languages by Andrew Carnie,Eithne Guilfoyle Pdf

This volume contains 12 chapters on the derivation of and the correlates to verb initial word order. The studies cover such widely divergent languages as Irish, Welsh, Scots Gaelic, Old Irish, and Biblical Hebrew.

Author : Erich Poppe,Karin Stüber,Paul Widmer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Celtic languages
ISBN : 3893236244

Get Book

Referential Properties and Their Impact on the Syntax of Insular Celtic Languages by Erich Poppe,Karin Stüber,Paul Widmer Pdf

From the contents:0Aaron Griffith: Preliminaries to the syntax of the Welsh reduplicated pronouns / Axel Harlos: The influence of animacy and accessibility on Middle Welsh positive declarative main clauses. Evidence from historiographical texts / Mícheál Hoyne: Why resumption? Resumptive pronouns in prepositional relative clauses / Britta Irslinger: Detransitive strategies in Middle Welsh. The preverbal marker ym- / Marieke Meelen: Object-initial word order in Middle Welsh narrative prose / Erich Poppe: How to resolve under-determination in Middle Welsh verbal-noun phrases / Karin Stüber: Subjects of non-finite adverbial clauses in the Old Irish biblical glosses / Paul Widmer: Cases, paradigms, affixes and indexes. Selecting grammatical relations in Middle Breton.

Author : Paul Russell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317894568

Get Book

An Introduction to the Celtic Languages by Paul Russell Pdf

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.

Author : Lachlan Maclean
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1840
Category : Celtic languages
ISBN : BSB:BSB10588651

Get Book

The History of the Celtic Language by Lachlan Maclean Pdf

Author : Martin J. Ball,James Fife,Erich Poppe,Jenny Rowland
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027278302

Get Book

Celtic Linguistics / Ieithyddiaeth Geltaidd by Martin J. Ball,James Fife,Erich Poppe,Jenny Rowland Pdf

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 : Robert D. Borsley,Maggie Tallerman,David Willis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1107407613

Get Book

The Syntax of Welsh by Robert D. Borsley,Maggie Tallerman,David Willis Pdf

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 : Elliott Lash,Fangzhe Qiu,David Stifter
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110680799

Get Book

Morphosyntactic Variation in Medieval Celtic Languages by Elliott Lash,Fangzhe Qiu,David Stifter Pdf

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.

Author : Pádraig MacCoisdealbha
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110952667

Get Book

The Syntax of the Sentence in Old Irish by Pádraig MacCoisdealbha Pdf

Old Irish is the language of Ireland in the period from the 8th to the 10th century AD, and is the oldest Celtic language well enough attested for adequate grammatical study. The book provides the only available detailed linguistic analysis of the syntactic structure of the Old Irish sentence. The basic form of the simple sentence, with the usual order of elements, verb-subject-object, is unproblematic from a synchronic viewpoint, but certain sentence types show more complex patterns of syntax, which have important implications for the typological, diachronic and comparative-historical analysis of Old Irish in particular, and Celtic and Indo-European languages in general. Sentence types which contain obligatory cataphoric pronouns referring to elements later in the same sentence are examined in detail, as well as constructions with marked initial topics, and the focussing construction of the cleft sentence. The approach is functional and typological, on the basis of a text corpus from the glosses on the Pauline epistles at Würzburg, with further material from Old Irish legal texts. The emphasis is on the communicative content and intent of the sentences of the corpus. The book is a newly edited version of MacCoisdealbha's Bochum dissertation of 1974, previously unpublished due to the author's death in 1976, and includes textual notes by the editor indicating progress, and indeed lack of progress, in the meantime, in areas covered by the book.