The Celtic Languages

3. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-1-032-97498-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 898 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Routledge Language Family Series

The Celtic Languages describes all the Celtic languages from historical, structural and sociolinguistic perspectives, with individual chapters on Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Manx, Welsh, Breton and Cornish, together with chapters on the historical languages, continental Celtic, and the typology of the Celtic languages.

This third 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. New to this edition is the inclusion of innovative chapters on recent sociolinguistic developments in the Celtic languages, namely the emergence of new-speakers / urban varieties which so far have not been systematically surveyed. Arranged across five parts, the volume covers first the history of Celtic languages, followed by the Goidelic (Irish, Scottish Gaelic, and Manx) and then the Brythonic (Welsh, Breton, and Cornish) languages. Part four is devoted to the sociolinguistic situation of the four contemporary Celtic languages, and finally, part five addresses new speaker research and the status of the two revived languages, Manx and Cornish.

With contributions from a variety of scholars of the highest reputation, The Celtic Languages continues to be an invaluable tool for both students and teachers of linguistics, especially those with an interest in typology, language universals, and the unique sociolinguistic position which the Celtic languages occupy.

Zielgruppe

Undergraduate Advanced and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ball, Martin J.

Müller, Nicole

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Enzyklopädien, Nachschlagewerke, Wörterbücher
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1: Historical Aspects

1 Typological aspects of the Celtic Languages

2 The emergence of the Celtic Languages

3 Continental Celtic

4 Early Irish

5 Classical Modern Irish

6 Old and Middle Welsh

Part 2: The Goidelic Language

7 Irish

8 Scottish Gaelic

9 Manx

Part 3: The Brythonic Languages

10 Welsh

11 Breton

12 Cornish

Part 4: Sociolinguistic Aspects

13 Sociolinguistics of Irish and its Speakers

14 Sociolinguistics of Scottish Gaelic

15 Sociolinguistics of Welsh

16 Sociolinguistics of Breton

Part 5: New Speaker Research

17 New speakers of Irish

18 New speakers of Scottish Gaelic

19 New speakers of Welsh

20 New speakers of Breton

21 Revived Manx

22 Revived Cornish

Über Autor(innen)

Martin J. Ball is Honorary Professor of Linguistics, Bangor University, Wales and Adjunct Professor of Speech and Hearing Sciences, University College Cork, Ireland.

Nicole Müller is professor of Speech and Hearing Sciences at University College Cork, Ireland.