Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Preface; 1. A History of Gaelic to 1800: Colm O Baoill; 2. Language in Society: 1800 to the modern day: Michelle Macleod; 3. Gaelic Place-names: Richard A. V. Cox; 4. Language in Gaelic Literature: Moray Watson; 5. A' Ghaidhlig an Canada: Scottish Gaelic in Canada: Kenneth E. Nilsen; 6. Hebridean and Mainland Dialects: Seosamh Watson; 7. The Gaelic Language-Group: Demography, Language-Usage, -Transmission and -Shift: Kenneth MacKinnon; 8. Language Planning: Robert Dunbar; 9. Sociolinguistic Ethnography of Gaelic Communities: Emily McEwan-Fujita; 10. Gaelic Vocabulary: Andrew Breeze; 11. Gaelic Orthography: The Drunk Man's Broad Road: Ronald Black; 12. Phonology in Modern Gaelic: Anna R. K. Bosch; 13. Gaelic Morphology: David Adger; 14. Gaelic Syntax: David Adger; Index

About the Author

Moray Watson is Programme Co-ordinator of the Celtic Department at the University of Aberdeen. Michelle Macleod is a Lecturer at the University of Aberdeen.

Reviews

The Edinburgh Companion to the Gaelic Language is to be recommended as a valuable addition to the body of introductory texts covering Gaelic studies. Readers will find that this volume accomplishes the editors' aims to fill many of the gaps which have hindered the study of Gaelic and to promote future research endeavours. -- Mairi Henderson, University of Aberdeen Reference Reviews The Edinburgh Companion to the Gaelic Language is to be recommended as a valuable addition to the body of introductory texts covering Gaelic studies. Readers will find that this volume accomplishes the editors' aims to fill many of the gaps which have hindered the study of Gaelic and to promote future research endeavours.