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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

Grammatical Number in Welsh: Diachrony and Typology

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    Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
    Publication Date: 05/03/2020
    ISBN13: 9781119615262, 978-1119615262
    ISBN10: 1119615267

    Number of Pages: 288

    Non Fiction , Dictionaries, Reference & Language

    Description

    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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