Mutation in WelshRoutledge, 1 juin 2002 - 336 pages The Initial Consonant Mutation system of Welsh is unique to Indo-European languages and has been the subject of much theoretical research. The multi-faceted nature of the phenomenon demands multi-dimensional treatment and this uniquely comprehensive book provides an integrated overview of this important feature from a wide linguistic viewpoint. In Welsh, Initial Consonant Mutation has implications for historical and comparative analyses, phonetic description, phonological theory, syntactic theory, and the interfaces between phonetics and phonology, morphology and phonology, and phonology and syntax. It also requires examination from semantic, psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic perspectives. This study, therefore, brings together a variety of approaches to a wide range of levels of linguistic analysis, all concentrated on one unusual linguistic feature. A detailed review of past research, together with an exploration of recent theoretical advances in many areas, makes this an indispensable book for departments of Celtic Studies and all scholars of comparative linguistics. |
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adjectives adverbial allophonic analysis autosegmental Awbery Ball Breton Brythonic Brythonic languages Celtic Celtic languages Chapter claim clearly clitics constituent Cornish deletion dialect direct object discussion environments example feature feminine forms fortis and lenis fricatives geminate grammatical Gwelodd inflected verbs initial consonant mutation interface intervocalic Irish Jackson language lenition lexical item lexical triggers lexicon linguistic marked Modern morpheme morphological morphophonemes mutation contexts mutation system mutation triggers mutation types mutation usage nasal mutation non-mutation noted noun NP___ obstruent occur particle periphrastic phonetic phonological changes phonological rules phonotactic position prepositions problem PSPs radical reflexes Rhodri Scottish Gaelic segment semantic sentences sociolinguistic soft mutation speakers spirantization Spoken Welsh Sproat Standard Welsh syntactic triggers syntax Tallerman target trigger SM variable variants voiced stops voiceless stops vowel word word-initial Zwicky