Grammatical Number in Welsh Diachrony and Typology - Publications of the Philological Society

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

ISBN:	9781119615262
Publisher:	Wiley
Imprint:	Wiley Blackwell
Published date:	05 Mar 2020
Language:	English
Number of pages:	iii, 272
Weight:	456g
Height:	227mm
Width:	152mm
Spine width:	14mm

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