E. C. Quiggin

A Dialect of Donegal

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Produktbeschreibung

An attempt at a scientific description of a northern dialect of Irish, first published in 1906.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 369g
• ISBN-13: 9781107645530
• ISBN-10: 1107645530
• Artikelnr.: 34449413

Inhaltsangabe

Introductory
Part I. The Vowel System: 1. The back vowels
2. The front vowels
3. The irrational vowels
4. The dipthongs
5. Nasal vowels
Part II. The Consonants: 1. h, j, w
2. The liquids and nasals
3. The spirants
4. The labial, dental and guttural stops
Part III. Synthesis: 1. Notes on the consonants
2. Metathesis
3. Dissimulation
4. Loss of consonant
5. Loss of vowel
6. Vowel-shortening
7. Uncertainty of initial
8. Sandhi
9. Vowel-length
10. Stress
11. Stress of compounds
12. Sentence-stress
13. Intonation
14. Characteristics of Donegal Irish
Word lists
Texts
Notes on the texts.