An Introduction to the Celtic Languages (Longman Linguistics Library)
An Introduction to the Celtic Languages (Longman Linguistics Library) by Paul Russell
English | 1995 | ISBN: 058210081X | 366 Pages | EPUB | 11.58 MB
English | 1995 | ISBN: 058210081X | 366 Pages | EPUB | 11.58 MB
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.