Cànan & CultarWilson McLeod, James Earle Fraser, Anja Gunderloch Dunedin Academic Press, 2006 - 294 pages This volume is a collection of proceedings from the third Rannsachadh na Gàidhlig conference held in Edinburgh in July 2004. The book includes papers on Scottish Gaelic history, language, literature, and culture from early Christian times to the present. In addition to Scotland, there is material relating to Ireland, Scandinavia, England, and Canada. Where papers are written in Gaelic, a detailed synopsis in English is included. |
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... modified by a long appositive , the head noun of which is itself modified by an adjective , a genitive , and a prepositional phrase . Such examples are facile enough in writing but would be intolerably heavy for the rapid - fire pace of ...
... modified by a long appositive , the head noun of which is itself modified by an adjective , a genitive , and a prepositional phrase . Such examples are facile enough in writing but would be intolerably heavy for the rapid - fire pace of ...
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... modification . The first example in Table 25 , for instance , has a head noun modified by four adjectives : mòra , tapaidh , làidir and fiadhaich . Example 1 , in addition to two adjectives , has a relative clause and a prepositional ...
... modification . The first example in Table 25 , for instance , has a head noun modified by four adjectives : mòra , tapaidh , làidir and fiadhaich . Example 1 , in addition to two adjectives , has a relative clause and a prepositional ...
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... modified by two or more adjectives in formal prose 1. --agus cuid dhe na sgeulachdan mòra eadar - nàiseanta — ' the big international stories ' 2 . 3 . 4 . 5 . 6 . 7 . 8 . 9 . a bha a ' cosnadh am beò - shlaint ann an cùirtean nan ...
... modified by two or more adjectives in formal prose 1. --agus cuid dhe na sgeulachdan mòra eadar - nàiseanta — ' the big international stories ' 2 . 3 . 4 . 5 . 6 . 7 . 8 . 9 . a bha a ' cosnadh am beò - shlaint ann an cùirtean nan ...
Contents
Contextualising the Duan Albanach | 11 |
Literary Lochlann | 25 |
Kingship imagery in Classical Gaelic panegyric for Scottish chiefs | 39 |
Copyright | |
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