Linguistlist: 14.1272, Scottish Gaelic: Lamb

Tue May 6 18:12:40 UTC 2003

 From LinguistList. A New book on Scottish Gaelic (or "Scotch Gaelic"
in announcement) has been published by Lincom.

If any member has any comments on this book I would be more than
happy to post them.

Elizabeth

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>LINGUIST List:  Vol-14-1272. Tue May 6 2003. ISSN: 1068-4875.
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>Subject: 14.1272, Books: Language Desc, Scotch Gaelic: Lamb
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>Date:  Mon, 05 May 2003 14:59:02 +0000
>From:  LINCOM.EUROPA at t-online.de
>Subject:  Scottish Gaelic: Lamb
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>
>
>Title: Scottish Gaelic
>Series Title: Languages of the World/Materials 401
>
>Publication Year: 2003
>Publisher: Lincom GmbH
>            http://home.t-online.de/home/LINCOM.EUROPA/
>
>Availability: Available
>
>Author: William  Lamb, University of Edinburgh
>
>Hardback: ISBN: 3895864080, Pages: 110, Price: USD 42.40 / EUR 38.30 /
>	  GBP 23.40
>Comment: (2nd edition)
>
>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.
>
>Lingfield(s):  Language Description
>
>Subject Language(s):  Gaelic, Scots (Language Code: GLS)
>
>Written In: English (Language Code: English)
>
>      See this book announcement on our website:
>	 http://linguistlist.org/get-book.html?BookID=6018
>
>
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