Fwd: Lang Description/Scottish Gaelic: Lamb

[Elizabeth J. Pyatt]

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>Date:  Thu, 07 Nov 2002 16:51:51 +0000
>From:  LINCOM.EUROPA at t-online.de
>Subject:  Scottish Gaelic: William  Lamb
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>Title: Scottish Gaelic
>Series Title: Languages of the World/Materials 401
>Publication Year: 2002
>
>Publisher: Lincom Europa
>            http://home.t-online.de/home/LINCOM.EUROPA/
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>Author: William  Lamb
>
>Hardback: ISBN: 3895864080, Pages: 100, Price: USD 42.40 / EUR 38.30 /
>GBP 23.40
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>Abstract:
>
>Scottish Gaelic (ScG), along with Irish and Manx, is a member of the
>Goidelic branch of the Celtic family of Indo-European languages.  At
>its peak of influence around 1000AD, it was undoubtedly the national
>language of Scotland, but ever since, its fate has been one of gradual
>decline.  Today, the Gaidhealtachd or Gaelic-speaking region is
>confined to the islands off the west coast of the country, aside from
>small pockets dotted throughout the northern and western
>Highlands. Although now spoken by only slightly more than 1% (65,978)
>of the country's population, it has had a rich influence on Scotland's
>history, toponymy, art, literature and national folklore.
>
>Scottish Gaelic has received much prior linguistic attention for its
>complex phonology (one dialect distinguishing at least 5 different
>lateral approximates), its system of consonant mutations, and its rich
>dialectal variation.  However, relatively little has been published on
>its syntax.  It is a dependent-marking, nominative-accusative VSO
>language .  The verbal system tends to be agglutinating while the
>nominal system is somewhat fusional.  Pronominal forms are especially
>notable in this regard, with a large proliferation of
>'prepositional-pronouns' evincing different forms according to person,
>number, and gender.  There are two genders (M&F), three numbers
>(Sing., Pl., and dual) and four cases extant in the language.  Stem
>modification and suppletion are common morphological
>processes. Distinctions of mood, aspect, and voice tend to be made
>periphrastically, employing a combination of verbal particles,
>auxiliaries and 'verbal-nouns' that can function differently depending
>upon their syntactic status.
>
>Finally, the grammar ends with sections on discourse phenomena,
>interjections and exclamations, the influence of English, and a full
>oral folktale with interlinear translation.
>
>This new grammar is the most up-to-date one available on the language.
>It includes many topics that have never, or only rarely, been dealt
>with in the available literature, for example information structure,
>complex clause formation, and descriptions of various types of
>discourse-related constructions.  It has been informed by an ongoing
>corpus-based study of register variation in the language, highlighting
>some of the initial differences that have been found in this data set.
>It is fully-referenced throughout for further information on Gaelic
>grammar and sociolinguistics.  Useful for the language learner, it
>also includes a glossary of the Gaelic words in the text and a
>statistically-derived list of the 100 most frequent words in the
>language with definitions.
>
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>Lingfield(s): Language Description
>
>Subject Language(s): Gaelic, Scots (Language Code: GLS)
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>Language Family(/ies): Celtic
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>Written In: English (Language Code: ENG)
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