Yr Hen Iaith: Studies in Early Welsh

by Paul Russell, Peter Schrijver (Contributor), Peter Kitson (Contributor)

A collection of 10 essays on Early Welsh. Contents: The etymology of Welsh chwith and the semantics and morphology of PIE *k(w)sweibh- (Peter Schrijver); Rowynniauc, Rhufoniog: the orthography and phonology of /m/ in Early Welsh (Paul Russell); Old English literacy and the provenance of Welsh y (Peter Kitson); Two developments in medieval literary Welsh and their implications for dating texts (Simon Rodway); The structure and typology of prepositional relative clauses in Early Welsh (Graham Isaac); The dry point glosses in Oxoniensis Posterior (Alexander Falileyev and Paul Russell); The Old Welsh glosses on Weights and Measures (Pierre-Yves Lambert); Marwnad Cunedda a diwedd y Brydain Rufeinig (John T. Koch); Are there elements of non-standard language in the work of the Gogynfeirdd? (Peter Busse); The Progressive in Ystorya Bown de Hamtwn (Erich Poppe).

280 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2003

About the author

Paul Russell is Reader in Celtic in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic in Cambridge.

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