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1 online resource (800 pages) |
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Routledge Language Family Series |
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Routledge language family series
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| Contents |
BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; FIGURES; CONTRIBUTORS; PREFACE; PART I HISTORICAL ASPECTS; CHAPTER 1 TYPOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF THE CELTIC LANGUAGES; CHAPTER 2 THE EMERGENCE OF THE CELTIC LANGUAGES; CHAPTER 3 CONTINENTAL CELTIC; CHAPTER 4 EARLY IRISH; CHAPTER 5 OLD AND MIDDLE WELSH; PART II THE GOIDELIC LANGUAGES; CHAPTER 6 IRISH; CHAPTER 7 SCOTTISH GAELIC; CHAPTER 8 MANX; PART III THE BRYTHONIC LANGUAGES; CHAPTER 9 WELSH; CHAPTER 10 BRETON; CHAPTER 11 CORNISH; PART IV THE SOCIOLINGUISTICS OF THE CELTIC LANGUAGES; CHAPTER 12 IRISH-SPEAKING SOCIETY AND THE STATE |
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CHAPTER 13 SCOTTISH GAELIC TODAY: Social history and contemporary statusCHAPTER 14 THE SOCIOLINGUISTIC CONTEXT OF WELSH; CHAPTER 15 LANGUAGE, CULTURE AND IDENTITY IN BRITTANY: The sociolinguistics of Breton; CHAPTER 16 THE REVIVED LANGUAGES -- CORNISH AND MANX; INDEX |
| Summary |
The Celtic Languages describes in depth all the Celtic languages from historical, structural and sociolinguistics perspectives with individual chapters on Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Manx, Welsh, Breton and Cornish. This new edition has been thoroughly revised to provide a comprehensive and up to date account of the modern Celtic languages and their current sociolinguistic status along with complete descriptions of the historical languages. This comprehensive volume is arranged in four parts. The first part offers a description of the typological aspects of the Celtic languages followed by a scene |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Celtic languages.
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Celtic languages -- Social aspects
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Celtic languages -- History
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Celtic languages
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Muller, Nicole
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| ISBN |
9780203882481 |
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0203882482 |
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