1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910954150703321

Titolo

The Celtic languages / / editors, Martin J. Ball, Nicole Muller

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2010

©2010

ISBN

1-134-10034-5

1-283-64206-9

1-134-10035-3

1-282-28399-5

9786612283994

0-203-88248-2

Edizione

[Second edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 785 pages) : illustrations, maps

Collana

Routledge language family series

Altri autori (Persone)

BallMartin J (Martin John)

MùˆllerNicole <1963->

Disciplina

491.6

Soggetti

Celtic languages

Linguistics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

THE CELTIC LANGUAGES; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of 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

Chapter 13; Scottish Gaelic today: social history and contemporary status; Chapter 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

Sommario/riassunto

The Celtic Languages describes in depth all the Celtic languages from historical, structural and sociolinguistic perspectives with individual



chapters on Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Manx, Welsh, Breton and Cornish. This second 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 l