The Edinburgh Companion to the Gaelic Language

Herausgeber: Watson, Moray; Macleod, Michelle

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of the Scottish Gaelic language.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 578g
• ISBN-13: 9780748637096
• ISBN-10: 0748637095
• Artikelnr.: 26949393

Autorenporträt

Moray Watson is Programme Co-ordinator of the Celtic Department at the University of Aberdeen. Michelle Macleod is a Lecturer at the University of Aberdeen.

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Preface
1. A History of Gaelic to 1800: Colm Ó Baoill
2. Language in Society: 1800 to the modern day: Michelle Macleod
3. Gaelic Place-names: Richard A. V. Cox
4. Language in Gaelic Literature: Moray Watson
5. A' Ghàidhlig an Canada: Scottish Gaelic in Canada: Kenneth E. Nilsen
6. Hebridean and Mainland Dialects: Seosamh Watson
7. The Gaelic Language-Group: Demography, Language-Usage, -Transmission and -Shift: Kenneth MacKinnon
8. Language Planning: Robert Dunbar
9. Sociolinguistic Ethnography of Gaelic Communities: Emily McEwan-Fujita
10. Gaelic Vocabulary: Andrew Breeze
11. Gaelic Orthography: The Drunk Man's Broad Road: Ronald Black
12. Phonology in Modern Gaelic: Anna R. K. Bosch
13. Gaelic Morphology: David Adger
14. Gaelic Syntax: David Adger
Index