Author: Anders Ahlqvist
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 902724555X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 413

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This volume contains a selection of papers from the Fifth International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences, dealing with subjects ranging from the classical period till the 20th century.

Author: Anders Ahlqvist
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027277222
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 414

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This volume contains a selection of papers from the Fifth International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences, dealing with subjects ranging from the classical period till the 20th century.

Author: Raymond Hickey
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110238306
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 521

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The book offers a comprehensive overview of forms of modern Irish within a general linguistic framework. Starting with information on the sociolinguistics of modern Irish and on the overall sound system of the language, it then proceeds with a tripartite division of the present-day language into northern, western and southern Irish. It gives specific information on the features of each dialect and considers many sub-divisions, using maps and tables to illustrate clearly what is the subject of discussion. There are several innovations in the book, such as a system of lexical sets which facilitate the description and analysis of variation and change in modern Irish. The data for the book stems from recordings of more than 200 speakers and all the statements made about the structure of Irish are based on native speakers' speech samples. These are supplied online with a software interface which allows users to quickly orient themselves among the varieties of Irish via clickable maps. A number of further issues are focused on in the book, such as the possibility of dialect reconstruction and the use of place-name evidence for determining the earlier distribution of Irish. Additional historical and background information is provided so that scholars and students without any previous knowledge of the language can readily grasp the themes and issues discussed.

Author: Raymond Hickey
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110369036
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 493

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The Sound Structure of Modern Irish contains a comprehensive description of the phonology of Irish. Based on the main forms of the language, it offers an analysis of the segments and the processes in its sound system. Each section begins with a description of the area of phonology which is the subject - such as stress patterns, phonotactics, epenthesis or metathesis - and then proceeds to consider the special aspects of this subject from a theoretical and typological perspective. The book pays particular attention to key processes in the sound system of modern Irish. The two most important of these are palatalisation and initial mutation, phenomena which are central to Irish and the analysis of which has consequences for general phonological theory. The other main emphasis in the book is on a typological comparison of several different languages, all of which show palatalisation and/or initial mutation as part of their systems. The different forms of Celtic, Slavic languages, Romance dialects and languages along with languages such as Finnish, Fula, Nivkh and Southern Paiute are considered to find out how processes which are phonetic in origin (external sandhi) can become functionalised and integrated into the morphosyntactic system of a language.

Author: Tommy Makem
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1466878304
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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There are few who could tell a tale or sing a tune with the joy and warmth of Tommy Makem. For more than half a century, Makem charmed audiences around the world with his tales of his homeland and his people. Join him in Tommy Makem's Secret Ireland, as this beloved Irish folksinger takes you on a personal tour of his favorite sites and sounds of that "Many splendored" island that is his home--Ireland.

Author: Dáibhí Ó Cróinín
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191543454
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages :

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A New History of Ireland is the largest scholarly project in modern Irish history. In 9 volumes, it provides a comprehensive new synthesis of modern scholarship on every aspect of Irish history and prehistory, from the earliest geological and archaeological evidence, through the Middle Ages, down to the present day. Volume I begins by looking at geography and the physical environment. Chapters follow that examine pre-3000, neolithic, bronze-age and iron-age Ireland and Ireland up to 800. Society, laws, church and politics are all analysed separately as are architecture, literature, manuscripts, language, coins and music. The volume is brought up to 1166 with chapters, amongst others, on the Vikings, Ireland and its neighbours, and opposition to the High-Kings. A final chapter moves further on in time, examining Latin learning and literature in Ireland to 1500.

Author: Daibhi O Croinin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198217374
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1398

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'A New History of Ireland' provides a comprehensive synthesis of modern scholarship on every aspect of Irish history and prehistory, from the earliest geological and archaeological evidence, through the Middle Ages, onwards.

Author: Clare Lois Carroll
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900433517X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 352

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Exiles in a Global City explores how early modern Irish migrants in Rome represented their cultural identities in relation to world-wide Spanish and Roman institutions and focuses on some sources not previously considered by Irish historians.

Author: Richard Berleth
Publisher: Roberts Rinehart
ISBN: 1461733472
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 359

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A gripping chronicle of the ferocious twenty-year struggle between the English monarch and the feudal lords of Ireland, The Twilight Lords describes the first authentic colonial venture in English history, a venture that held captive a whole generation of the best that Ireland and England could muster. By the time the last and the greatest of the "rebels" surrendered, Elizabeth was dead, two waves of English settlers had been exterminated, and the southern part of Ireland had become a barren wilderness.

Author: Raymond Hickey
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9789027237538
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 562

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Accompanying CD-ROM contains ... "all the bibliographical items in this book ... along with self-installing software necessary to process the databases and tha annotations on a personal computer." -- p. [535].