Book section : Chapter
Comparative Brittonic syntax
- Abstract:
- This chapter compares the syntax of the three best attested medieval Brittonic languages across a range of areas, including word order, verbal syntax and agreement, verbnouns, subordinate clauses and noun phrases. In many cases, innovations due to grammaticalization or language contact can be peeled away to provide a sense of the ancestral syntactic structure. In other cases, close similarity between the languages suggests little change since Brittonic. A number of more difficult cases, for instance, marking of embedded negation, the syntax of the verbnoun and that of the copula, raise more challenging issues that are discussed in this chapter.
- Publication status:
- In press
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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+ Eska, JF
- Role:
- Editor
+ Nurmio, S
- Role:
- Editor
+ Ó Muircheartaigh, P
- Role:
- Editor
+ Russell, P
- Role:
- Editor
- Publisher:
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Host title:
- Palgrave Handbook of Celtic Languages and Linguistics
- Place of publication:
- Cham, Switzerland
- Publication date:
- 2025-12-15
- Edition:
- 1
- EISBN:
- 9783031912580
- ISBN:
- 9783031912573
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English
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- Pubs id:
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2019585
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2024-08-01
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- 2025
- Notes:
- Accepted for publication in the Palgrave Handbook of Celtic Languages and Linguistics, forthcoming from Palgrave Macmillan.
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