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An Introduction to the Celtic Languages

By Paul Russell

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
1995
ISBN
058210081X, 9780582100817
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
12 MB (12137559 bytes)
Series
Longman Linguistics Library
Edition
1
Pages
366\0
Time added
2017-03-24 22:55:06
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Description

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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