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Grammatical Number in Welsh

Diachrony and Typology

Silva Nurmio author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Published:5th Mar '20

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Grammatical Number in Welsh cover

The first comprehensive treatment of grammatical number in Welsh - an intriguing, yet relatively neglected area in the study of number phenomena. 

  • Comprises major contributions to the study of grammatical number based on a new corpus collected from Middle Welsh texts and a reassessment of data from Old and Modern Welsh
  • Approaches number in Welsh from a cross-linguistic perspective, providing data that can be used by Welsh linguists, Celticists, and non-specialized linguists with no previous knowledge of the language
  • Offers new answers to whether certain noun types are number categories and explores the significance of literary genre to the study of older language stages
  • Integrates both diachronic and typological perspectives, and is based on the full corpus available here: https://zenodo.org/record/3632585#.XjgzwHtS8uU
  • Includes new findings on minor numbers, mass nouns and their agreement and the loss of dual number which will prove to be of interest to all linguists
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ISBN: 9781119615262

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm

Weight: 454g

288 pages