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Title Formal approaches to Celtic linguistics / edited by Andrew Carnie
Published Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011

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Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS; PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PART 1; CLEFTED SITUATIONS; THE INTERACTION OF LINEARIZATION AND PROSODY; THE SYNTAX AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE OLD IRISH AUTONOMOUS VERB; OLD IRISH PRONOUNS; SOME BRETON INDEFINITES; POST-SYNTACTIC EXCORPORATION IN REALIZATIONAL MORPHOLOGY; THE SHAPE OF IRISH CLAUSES; LEFT RIGHT BEHIND; SOME PROBLEMS WITH OBJECT ENCLITICS IN LITERARY WELSH AND OLD IRISH; PREVERBAL PARTICLES AND IRREGULAR VERBS IN IRISH; THE SEMANTICS OF SCOTTISH GAELIC TENSE AND ASPECT; PART 2; ATR IN SCOTTISH GAELIC TENSE SONORANTS; TRANSCRIPTION; ADJECTIVE AGREEMENT IN GAELIC
WELSH MUTATIONS AND STATISTICAL PHONOTACTICSUNITY IN DIVERSITY IN WELSH; REFERENCES; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX
Summary This collection brings together the latest research into the syntax, semantics, phonology, phonetics and morphology of the Celtic languages. Based on presentations given at the Formal Approaches to Celtic Linguistics Conference in 2009, this book contains articles by leading Celtic linguists on Breton, Modern Irish, Old Irish, Scottish Gaelic, and Welsh, on a wide variety of topics ranging from the syntax and semantics of clefts to the articulatory phonology of fortis sonorants. --Book Jacket
Notes This collection brings together the latest research into syntax, semantics, phonology, phonetics and morphology of the Celtic languages
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Celtic languages.
Celtic languages -- Grammar, Comparative -- Congresses
Linguistic analysis (Linguistics) -- Congresses
Grammar, syntax & morphology.
Phonetics, phonology.
Semantics, discourse analysis, etc.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Celtic Languages.
Celtic languages
Celtic languages -- Grammar, Comparative
Linguistic analysis (Linguistics)
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Carnie, Andrew, 1969-
ISBN 1443830518
9781443830515
1283142961
9781283142960