LINGUIST List 21.2703 Thu Jun 24 2010 Books: Morphology/Sociolinguistics/Syntax: Watson, Macleod Editor for this issue: Maria Moreno-Rollins <marialinguistlist.org> Links to the websites of all LINGUIST's supporting publishers are available at the end of this issue. Directory         1.    Victoria McCafferty, The Edinburgh Companion to the Gaelic Language: Watson, Macleod Message 1: The Edinburgh Companion to the Gaelic Language: Watson, Macleod Date: 23-Jun-2010 From: Victoria McCafferty <Anna.Glaziereup.ed.ac.uk> Subject: The Edinburgh Companion to the Gaelic Language: Watson, Macleod E-mail this message to a friend Title: The Edinburgh Companion to the Gaelic Language Published: 2010 Publisher: Edinburgh University Press                 http://www.eup.ed.ac.uk/ Book URL: http://www.euppublishing.com/book/9780748637096 Author: Moray Watson Author: Michelle Macleod Hardback: ISBN: 9780748637089 Pages: 376 Price: U.K. £ 70.00 Paperback: ISBN: 9780748637096 Pages: 376 Price: U.K. £ 19.99 Abstract: Bringing together a range of perspectives on the Gaelic language, this book covers the history of the language, its development in Scotland and Canada, its spelling, syntax and morphology, its modern vocabulary, and the study of its dialects. It also addresses sociolinguistic issues such as identity, perception, language planning and the appearance of the language in literature. Each chapter is written by an expert on their topic. Written accessibly with a non-specialist audience in mind, it will have a particular value for those requiring an introduction to aspects of the Gaelic language. It will also be of great interest to those who are embarking on research on Gaelic for the first time. Key Features - Deals with a wide range of aspects of Gaelic - Places the study of the Gaelic language within the context of modern linguistic research - Encourages and supports further study - Includes chapters by a number of leading experts on Gaelic language Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation                             Morphology                             Phonetics                             Sociolinguistics                             Syntax Subject Language(s): Gaelic, Scottish (gla) Written In: English (eng ) See this book announcement on our website: http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=49027 Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue -------------------------- Major Supporters -------------------------- Brill http://www.brill.nl Cambridge Scholars Publishing http://www.c-s-p.org Cambridge University Press http://us.cambridge.org Cascadilla Press http://www.cascadilla.com/ Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd http://www.continuumbooks.com De Gruyter Mouton http://www.degruyter.com/mouton Edinburgh University Press http://www.eup.ed.ac.uk/ Elsevier Ltd http://www.elsevier.com/linguistics Emerald Group Publishing Limited http://www.emeraldinsight.com/ European Language Resources Association - ELRA http://www.elra.info. Georgetown University Press http://www.press.georgetown.edu John Benjamins http://www.benjamins.com/ Lincom GmbH http://www.lincom.eu MIT Press http://mitpress.mit.edu/ Multilingual Matters http://www.multilingual-matters.com/ Narr Francke Attempto Verlag GmbH + Co. KG http://www.narr.de/ Oxford University Press http://www.oup.com/us Palgrave Macmillan http://www.palgrave.com Peter Lang AG http://www.peterlang.com Rodopi http://www.rodopi.nl/ Routledge (Taylor and Francis) http://www.routledge.com/ Springer http://www.springer.com University of Toronto Press http://www.utpjournals.com/ Wiley-Blackwell http://www.wiley.com ---------------------- Other Supporting Publishers ---------------------- Association of Editors of the Journal of Portuguese Linguistics http://www.fl.ul.pt/revistas/JPL/JPLweb.htm Graduate Linguistic Students' Association, Umass http://glsa.hypermart.net/ International Pragmatics Assoc. http://www.ipra.be Langues et Linguistique http://y.ennaji.free.fr/fr/ Linguistic Association of Finland http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/ Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke - LOT http://www.lotpublications.nl/ Pacific Linguistics http://pacling.anu.edu.au/ SIL International http://www.ethnologue.com/bookstore.asp St. Jerome Publishing Ltd http://www.stjerome.co.uk Utrecht institute of Linguistics http://www-uilots.let.uu.nl/ Page Updated: 24-Jun-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.