{"title":"The Syntax of Absolute Verbal Forms in Early Welsh Poetry: A Survey","authors":"S. Rodway","doi":"10.16922/JCL.22.4","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This paper undertakes a comprehensive survey of the syntax of absolute forms of verbs in the corpus of early Welsh poetry known ashengerdd. Comparisons are made with the syntax of absolute forms in Old Irish, in Old Welsh and Old Breton, in Middle Welsh court poetry of the twelfth century onwards, and with those found in Middle Welsh prose texts.","PeriodicalId":35107,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Celtic Linguistics","volume":"22 1","pages":"33-104"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Celtic Linguistics","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.16922/JCL.22.4","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"Arts and Humanities","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This paper undertakes a comprehensive survey of the syntax of absolute forms of verbs in the corpus of early Welsh poetry known ashengerdd. Comparisons are made with the syntax of absolute forms in Old Irish, in Old Welsh and Old Breton, in Middle Welsh court poetry of the twelfth century onwards, and with those found in Middle Welsh prose texts.
期刊介绍:
The Journal of Celtic Linguistics publishes articles and reviews on all aspects of the linguistics of the Celtic languages, modern, medieval and ancient, with particular emphasis on synchronic studies, while not excluding diachronic and comparative-historical work. Papers are invited in English on all fields/‘levels’ of analysis; phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics; formal or functional, cross-language typological or language-internal, dialectological or sociolinguistic, any theoretical paradigm.