The Dialects of Irish : : Study of a Changing Landscape / / Raymond Hickey.

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 nor...

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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]
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سنة النشر:2011
اللغة:English
سلاسل:Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 230
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جدول المحتويات:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • I Introduction
  • 1. The Irish language today
  • 2. Who speaks Irish?
  • II The sound system of Irish
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Phonology
  • 3. Phonological studies
  • III The dialects of Irish
  • 1. Background
  • 2. Collecting data on Irish dialects
  • 3. Features of dialects
  • 4. The prosody of Irish
  • 5. Dialect reconstruction
  • 6. Further variation
  • 7. Conclusions
  • IV Appendixes
  • 1. History of Irish
  • 2. The orthography of Irish
  • 3. The transcription of Irish
  • 4. Samples of Spoken Irish
  • Glossary
  • References
  • Subject index
  • Language index
  • Sound files referred to in book
  • List of maps