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Interpersonal Grammar in Scottish Gaelic [PDF]
, 2021 In this chapter I use a text-based approach to grammatical description in order to explore the interpersonal grammar of Scottish Gaelic. I analyse extracts from two Scottish Gaelic novels from the perspectives of the semantic systems of NEGOTIATION and ENGAGEMENT and correlate distinctions in these systems with function structures at the ...
Tom Bartlett, BEATRIZ Quiroz
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Scottish Gaelicː A Comprehensive Grammar is a definitive description of contemporary Gaelic.The volume presents an authoritative account of modern Gaelic grammar, attending to both idealised usages - as typically taught in formal education - and more colloquial forms.
Claire Louise Nance, Susan Fox
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Proper Names in Scottish Gaelic
Names, 1959 FEW LANGUAGES, IF ANY, seem to show consistent formal linguistic markers characterizing proper names. Indeed, for the most part, the category which we conventionally term proper name, or simply name, seems to be defined not at all (or to a very limited degree) by formal linguistic criteria, but by a complex of correlates between the linguistic ...
Eric Hamp
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LanguagesVerbal nouns in Insular Celtic languages have long been a subject of interest because they are capable of exhibiting both nominal and verbal properties, posing a persistent challenge when it comes to determining their precise categorization.
Avelino Corral Esteban
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A "Dissociation of Sensibility": The Gaelic Dilemma in the Poetry of Hugh MacDiarmid and Sorley MacLean [PDF]
Beni-Suef University International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2023 Hugh MacDiarmid [Christopher Murray Grieve] (1892 - 1978) and Sorley MacLean [Somhairle MacGill-Eain] (1911 - 1996) are two Scottish poets whose works represent a painful dialogue between their native Gaelic identity and the identity of an overriding ...
Hoda Soliman Soliman
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Scottish Gaelic political terminology – Term formation in the Scottish Parliament Annual Report
LingBaW, 2022 This paper analyses the Scottish Gaelic political terminology used by the Scottish Parliament, based on the translations of three Annual Reports.
Lena Krochmann
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Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 2019 Scottish Gaelic is a minority language of Scotland spoken by approximately 58,000 people, or 1% of the Scottish population (speaker numbers from the 2011 Census available in National Records of Scotland 2015). Here, we refer to the language as ‘Gaelic’, pronounced in British English as /ɡalɪk/, as is customary within the Gaelic-speaking community.
Claire Nance, Roibeard Ó Maolalaigh
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Converses with the Grave: Three Modern Gaelic Laments
Genealogy, 2021 Within Scottish deathways, the Gaelic lament has long served as a poignant and powerful outlet for loss. In this creative piece, three Canadian-born, Gaelic-speaking poets present their previously unpublished Gaelic laments along with English ...
Chelsey MacPherson +3 more
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Dialect variation in Scottish Gaelic nominal morphology: A quantitative study
Glossa, 2020 This paper presents a dialectometric analysis of Scottish Gaelic morphology, with a focus on the noun phrase, using previously unpublished data from the Linguistic Survey of Scotland.
Pavel Iosad, William Lamb
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Languages, 2021 This study describes the validation of a reading assessment developed for speakers of Scottish Gaelic, an endangered language spoken in Scotland. The test is designed to investigate the areas of reading for understanding, reading errors and reading speed.
Euan Dickson +3 more
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