Ball, Muller (Eds), The Celtic Languages, 2nd ed.

[David Stifter]

Dear all,

this message came in yesterday from Linguist List. In addition to updated
versions of the article of the 1st edition, the new edition for the first
time also contains chapters on Early Irish and Old and Middle Welsh.

David



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Date: 25-Aug-2009
From: Tara Thomas < Tara.Thomas at taylorandfrancis.com >
Subject: The Celtic Languages: Ball, Muller (Eds)



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Title: The Celtic Languages, Second Edition
Series Title: Routledge Language Family Series

Publication Year: 2009
Publisher: Routledge (Taylor and Francis)
    http://www.routledge.com/


Book URL:
http://www.routledge.com/books/The-Celtic-Languages-isbn9780415422796


Editor: Martin J. Ball
Editor: Nicole Muller

Electronic: ISBN: 0203882482 9780203882481 Pages: 816 Price: U.S. $
315.00 Hardback: ISBN: 0415422795 9780415422796 Pages: 816 Price: U.S.
$ 315.00


Abstract:

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
languages followed by a scene setting historical account of the
emergence of these languages. Chapters devoted to Continental Celtic,
Old and Middle Irish, and Old and Middle Welsh follow. Parts two and
three are devoted to linguistic descriptions of the contemporary
languages. Part two has chapters on Irish, Scots Gaelic and Manx,
while Part three covers Welsh, Breton and Cornish. Part four is
devoted to the sociolinguistic situation of the four contemporary
Celtic languages and a final chapter describes the status of the two
revived languages Cornish and Manx.

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.



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics
                     Typology

Subject Language(s): Breton (bre)
                     Cornish (cor)
                     Gaelic, Irish (gle)
                     Gaelic, Scottish (gla)
                     Manx (glv)
                     Welsh (cym)
                     Middle Welsh (wlm)
                     Middle Irish (mga)
                     Old Irish (sga)
                     Old Welsh (owl)

Language Family(ies): Continental Celtic


Written In: English  (eng)

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