The Edinburgh Companion to the Gaelic Language /

The Edinburgh Companion to the Gaelic Language / / Moray Watson, Michelle Macleod.

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Bringing together a range of perspectives on the Gaelic language, this book covers the history of the language, its development in Scotland and Canada, its spelling, syntax and morphology, its modern vocabulary, and the study of its dialects. It also addresses sociolinguistic issues such as identity...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
VerfasserIn:
Watson, Moray,
Macleod, Michelle,
MitwirkendeR:
Adger, David,
Black, Ronald,
Bosch, Anna R. K.,
Breeze, Andrew,
Dunbar, Robert,
MacKinnon, Kenneth,
Macleod, Michelle,
McEwan-Fujita, Emily,
Nilsen, Kenneth E.,
Watson, Moray,
Watson, Seosamh,
Ó Baoill, Colm,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2010
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (376 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • Preface
  • 1. A History of Gaelic to 1800
  • 2. Language in Society: 1800 to the Modern Day
  • 3. Gaelic Place-names
  • 4. Language in Gaelic Literature
  • 5. A’ Ghàidhlig an Canada: Scottish Gaelic in Canada
  • 6. Hebridean and Mainland Dialects
  • 7. The Gaelic Language-Group: Demography, Language-Usage, -Transmission, and -Shift
  • 8. Language Planning
  • 9. Sociolinguistic Ethnography of Gaelic Communities
  • 10. Gaelic Vocabulary
  • 11. Gaelic Orthography: The Drunk Man’s Broad Road
  • 12. Phonology in Modern Gaelic
  • 13. Gaelic Morphology
  • 14. David Adger
  • Index

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