Part I Historical Aspects
Part II The Goidelic Languages
Part III The Brythonic Languages
Part IV The Sociolinguistics of the Celtic
Languages
Martin J. Ball is Hawthorne-BORSF Endowed Professor, and Head of
the Department of Communicative Disorders, and Director of the
Doris B. Hawthorne Center for Special Education and Communication
Disorders at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He is an
Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Speech and Language
Therapists (London). Dr Ball has authored and edited twenty books,
over 20 contributions to collections and over thirty refereed
articles in academic journals. He is co-editor of the journal
Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics. His main research interests
include clinical phonetics and phonology, and the linguistics of
Welsh. He is currently President of the International Clinical
Phonetics and Linguistics Association.
Nicole Müller is Associate Professor in Communicative Disorders at
the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, and also holds a
Hawthorne- BORSF professorship. Dr Müller has published widely in
both book and journal form in various areas of language disorders,
as well the syntax and semantics of natural language. Particular
areas of interest include historical and comparative Celtic
linguistics, clinical discourse studies and pragmatics,
specifically as applied to Alzheimer’s Disease, communication
disorders and multilingualism, and professional voice use in
university professors.
'A very substantial work indeed ... produced to a high standard of
scholarship.'
'... provides a very useful and convenient overview of the
linguistic features of the whole range of the Celtic languages. The
book is very well produced. Each chapter is accompanied by a
substantial bibliography and there is a good index of names and
subjects.' - Reference Reviews
'This is an excellent book. Detailed but lucid, it is exactly the
book to recommend to enquirers on anything from inscriptions in
Gaulish to videos in Manx. In short, the authors of [The Celtic
Languages] deserve congratulations for a job well done. The work of
the team [Martin Ball] has directed will be of value for years to
come.' - Notes and Queries
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