Language Learn Celtic Books

The Celtic Languages

Six modern Celtic languages are described in this volume. Four of these, Modern Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh and Breton, are living community languages. The other two, Manx and Cornish, survived into the modern period, but are no longer extant as community languages, though they are the subject of enthusiastic revivals. The Celtic Languages sets them briefly in their Indo-European context, and states their general relationships within the broader Celtic language family. Individual linguistic studies are first placed in their sociolinguistic and sociohistorical context. A detailed synchronic account of each language then follows, including syntax, morphology, phonology, morphophonology, dialect variation and distribution. Each description is based on a common plan, thus facilitating comparison among the different languages. This latest volume in the Cambridge Language Surveys will be welcomed by all scholars of the Celtic languages, but has also been designed to be accessible to any reader with only a basic knowledge of linguistics.

Hardcover:  484 pages
Language:  English
ISBN:  0521231272
Author/Editor:  by Donald MacAulay (Editor)

The Celtic Languages
The Celtic Languages

This is the first modern, scholarly, detailed account of the Celtic languages found in one volume. The need for such a book has grown in recent years owing to the marked increase in interest in this important language-family on the part of linguists worldwide.
The Celtic languages have various unique features, both structural and sociolinguistic, both inside and outside the Indo-European linguistic situation, that make them especially worthy of study. The languages examined are Gaulish, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Manx, Welsh, Breton, and Cornish.

Paperback:  696 pages
Language:  English
ISBN:  041528080X
Author/Editor:  by Martin J. Ball (Author)

The Celtic Languages
Celtic Alphabets (Celtic Design)

Of all the ornamental applications of Celtic art, the decorated letter is perhaps the richest. Aidan Meehan's brilliantly creative study of the great Celtic manuscripts underpins this wonderful collection of sixteen alphabets. From sixth-century birds to late medieval Celtic dragons, from early Celtic spirals to the later Tree of Life, more than four hundred drawings cover the whole spectrum of Celtic ornament in its most useful form, as well as the fascinating evolution of the letterforms themselves, from Roman to Irish Gothic. Celtic artists, designers, calligraphers, and craftspeople will find it an invaluable work of reference and inspiration.

Paperback:  96 pages
Language:  English
ISBN:  0500279802
Author/Editor:  by Aidan Meehan (Author)

Celtic Alphabets (Celtic Design)
Celtic Design: Illuminated Letters

Celtic Design: Illuminated Letters (Paperback) by Aidan Meehan (Author)

Paperback:  160 pages
Language:  English
ISBN:  0500276854
Author/Editor:  by Aidan Meehan

Celtic Design: Illuminated Letters

Related Posts:

Want to add New Resources? Please, contact us for this at ats [at] ats-group [dot] net