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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 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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LONGMAN LINGUISTICS LIBRARY AN INTRODUCTION TO THE CELTIC LANGUAGES LONGMAN - photo 1

LONGMAN LINGUISTICS LIBRARY
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE CELTIC LANGUAGES

LONGMAN LINGUISTICS LIBRARY

General editors:
R. H. Robins, University of London
Martin Harris, University of Manchster
Geoffrey Horrocks, University of Cambridge

For a complete list of books in the series see pages v and vi

An Introduction to
the Celtic Languages

Paul Russell

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First published 1995 by Longman Group Limited

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Russell, Paul, 1956 Feb. 23
An introduction to the Celtic languages / Paul Russell.
p. cm. (Longman linguistics library)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-582-10082-8 (CSD). ISBN 0-582-10081-X (PPR)
1. Celtic languages. I. Title. II. Series.
PB 1014.R87 1995
491.6dc20 94-44203
CIP

LONGMAN LINGUISTICS LIBRARY

General editors:
R. H. Robins, University of London
Martin Harris, University of Manchester
Geoffrey Horrocks, University of Cambridge

A Short History of Linguistics
Third Edition
R. H. ROBINS

Text and Context
Explorations in the Semantics and Pragmtics of Discourse
TEUN A. VAN DIJK

Introduction to Text Linguistics
ROBERT DE BEAUGRANDE AND WOLFGANG ULRICH DRESSLER

Psycholinguistics
Language, Mind , and World
DANNY D. STEINBERG

Principles of Pragmatics
GEOFFREY LEECH

Generative Grammar
GEOFFREY HORROCKS

The English Verb
Second Edition
F. R. PALMER

A History of American English
J. L. DILLARD

English Historical Syntax
Verbal Constructions
DAVID DENISON

Pidgin and Creole Languages
SUZANNE ROMAINE

A History of English Phonology
CHARLES JONES

Generative and Non-linear Phonology
JACQUES DURAND

Modality and the English Modals
Second Edition
F. R. PALMER

Semiotics and Linguistics
YISHAI TOBIN

Multilingualism in the British Isles I: The Older Mother Tongues and Europe
EDITED BY SAFDER ALLADINA AND VIV EDWARDS

Multilingualism in the British Isles II: Africa, The Middle East and Asia
EDITED BY SAFDER ALLADINA AND VIV EDWARDS

Dialects of English
Studies in Grammatical Variation
EDITED BY PETER TRUDGILL AND J. K. CHAMBERS

Introduction to Bilingualism
CHARLOTTE HOFFMANN

Verb and Noun Number in English:
A Functional Explanation
WALLIS REID

English in Africa
JOSEF SCHMIED

Linguistic Theory
The Discourse of Fundamental Works
ROBERT DE BEAUGRANDE

General Linguistics
An Introductory Survey
Fourth Edition
R. H. ROBINS

Historical Linguistics
Problems and Perspectives
EDITED BY C. JONES

A History of Linguistics Vol. I
The Eastern Traditions of Linguistics
EDITED BY GIULIO LEPSCHY

A History of Linguistics Vol. II
Classical and Medieval Linguistics
EDITED BY GIULIO LEPSCHY

Aspect in the English Verb
Process and Result in Language
YISHAI TOBIN

The Meaning of Syntax
A Study in the Adjectives of English
CONNOR FERRIS

Latin American Spanish
JOHN M. LIPSKI'

A Linguistic History of Italian
MARTIN MAIDEN

Modern Arabic
CLIVE HOLES

Frontiers of Phonology: Atoms, Structures, Derivations
EDITED BY JACQUES DURAND AND FRANCIS KATAMBA

An Introduction to the Celtic Languages
PAUL RUSSELL

To Ben

Contents




Lenition and mutations: phonetics, phonology
and morphology


Verbal nouns and infinitives: the historical
background

The original invitation to contribute this volume to the Longman Linguistics Library series came from Elizabeth Mann, and I am grateful to her and the editors of the series for their support and encouragement. There would have been no chance of completing the volume on time had not the Warden and Council of Radley College been kind enough to grant me a term's sabbatical during the final stages. I am grateful also to my colleagues for shouldering the extra work my absence entailed. During that term Jesus College, Oxford, provided a congenial place to work, and Ellis Evans displayed characteristic kindness in discussing aspects of my work. John Penney read a final draft of the whole work, and by always asking the awkward questions and raising the telling objections showed me that the draft was less final than I had thought. I have also benefited from discussing aspects of the work with Pierre-Yves Lambert and Peter Smith. As ever, Thomas Charles-Edwards has kindly acted as a sounding-board for ideas, and has supplied clarity of thought and good sense in large measures; he too read a final draft and made many valuable suggestions and corrections. It is a better volume for all their contributions.

My wife, Felicity, has as usual borne the brant of my labours, particularly in giving me time and space to complete the work; she has provided constant support and encouragement in every way. Ben, my son, has taken a keen and detailed interest in all aspects of the production of 'his' book; it is dedicated to him with love.

PAUL RUSSELL
Radley College

A adjective

acc. accusative

AgN agent noun

AN abstract noun

B Breton

Cards Cardiganshire

CF Cois Fhairrge

Celtib Celtiberian

Co Cornish

Conn Connacht

dat. dative

Det. Determinative

Don Donegal

Eng English

f. feminine

Gaul Gaulish

GD Gweedore

gen. genitive

Goth Gothic

Gk Greek

Hany laryngeal (see Chapter 2, n. 16)

Ir Irish

IE Indo-European

Lat Latin

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