Опубликовано в: Studia Celtica, XLVIII (2014), 139–70. The Middle Welsh plural suffix -awr, seen for example in cleddyfawr ‘swords’ and gwaywawr ‘spears’, appears to be a feature of early texts and it curiously disappears from the language by the Early Modern period. It has also been observed to be mainly confined to poetry. Strachan calls it ‘mostly poetical’ and this is echoed by...
Препринт статьи, опубликованной в Journal of Celtic Linguistics 9, 105–33 (2005). This article looks at variation in the distribution of /j/ in post-tonic syllables in Middle Welsh. It extends previous studies by looking at variation at the level of the individual lexical item, using data from a stylistically and lexically relatively homogeneous group of law manuscripts from...
Опубликовано в: Studia Celtica 40 (2006): 63–88. This paper examines the evidence from Middle Welsh for the emergence of the Modern Welsh marker of clausal negation ddim. It considers cases where the indefinite pronoun dim ‘anything’ appears not to be an argument of its verb, and therefore can be considered to be a ‘pseudoargument’ with an adverbial function ‘at all’. Isolated...
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