SubjectsLinguistics / Celtic languages

Building and Using the Siarad Corpus: Bilingual conversations in Welsh and English

Margaret Deuchar, Peredur Webb-Davies and Kevin Donnelly

This book is a research monograph divided into two parts. The first part describes the methods used to build the first sizeable corpus of informal conversational data collected from bilingual speakers of Welsh and English: Siarad. The second part describes the linguistic analysis of data from this… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 81] 2018. vii, 199 pp.

Grammatica, Gramadach and Gramadeg: Vernacular grammar and grammarians in medieval Ireland and Wales

Edited by Deborah Hayden and Paul Russell

Grammatica, Gramadach, and Gramadeg : Vernacular grammar and grammarians in medieval Ireland and Wales is concerned with the history of linguistic ideas and literary theory in the vernacular languages of medieval Ireland and Wales. While much good work, especially by Vivian Law, has been done on… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 125] 2016. xvi, 226 pp.

Make Peace and Take Victory: Support verb constructions in Old English in comparison with Old Irish

Patricia Ronan

This corpus-based study examines the use of support verb constructions in Old English and Old Irish. It determines in how far these constructions can be seen as a means to offer semantic specification of existing verbal expressions. The study further investigates whether support verb constructions… read more

[NOWELE Supplement Series, 24] 2012. xiv, 251 pp.

Studies in Brythonic Word Order

Edited by James Fife and Erich Poppe

While Celtic languages are nominally VSO in basic word order, the languages of the Brythonic branch have exhibited striking synchronic and historical variations from the prototype. This volume comprises the very latest research in word order in Welsh, reton and Cornish from nine of the leading… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 83] 1991. x, 360 pp.

Celtic Linguistics / Ieithyddiaeth Geltaidd: Readings in the Brythonic Languages. Festschrift for T. Arwyn Watkins

Edited by Martin J. Ball, James Fife, Erich Poppe and Jenny Rowland

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… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 68] 1990. xxiv, 470 pp.

Focus on Scotland

Edited by Manfred Görlach †

This collection comprises 15 essays ranging from the social history of and attitudes towards Scots to the representation of Scottishness in literary language and to modern sociolinguistic work. The uniqueness of the historical and present-day linguistic situation in Scotland makes the volume of… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G5] 1985. iv, 241 pp.