An Introduction to the Celtic Languages (Longman Linguistics Library)

Acknowledged authors Russell, Paul wrote An Introduction to the Celtic Languages (Longman Linguistics Library) comprising 366 pages back in 1995. Textbook and eTextbook are published under ISBN 058210081X and 9780582100817. Since then An Introduction to the Celtic Languages (Longman Linguistics Library) textbook was available to sell back to BooksRun online for the top buyback price or rent at the marketplace.

This text provides a single-volume, single-author general introduction to the Celtic languages.

The first half of the book considers the historical background of the language group as a whole. There follows a discussion of the two main sub-groups of Celtic, Goidelic (comprising Irish, Scottish, Gaelic and Manx) and Brittonic (Welsh, Cornish and Breton) together with a detailed survey of one representative from each group, Irish and Welsh.

The second half considers a range of linguistic features which are often regarded as characteristic of Celtic: spelling systems, mutations, verbal nouns and word order.