Cànan & CultarThis 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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The following incident is from the section of her diary recording the years 1812-13 : [ He ] was waked , after the old fashioned shaved and partly dressed and set up in his bed , all the country side collecting round him .
The following incident is from the section of her diary recording the years 1812-13 : [ He ] was waked , after the old fashioned shaved and partly dressed and set up in his bed , all the country side collecting round him .
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Pococke ( 2.4 ) says that the ' wife and children danced with others round the Corps ' , which implies a circle of people around the body in the centre , which is also implied by Sinton's description ( 2.19 ) . Other texts suggest that ...
Pococke ( 2.4 ) says that the ' wife and children danced with others round the Corps ' , which implies a circle of people around the body in the centre , which is also implied by Sinton's description ( 2.19 ) . Other texts suggest that ...
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Georgetown University Round Table , 1984 , pp . 95–104 . Chafe , Wallace ( 1992 ) ' The importance of corpus linguistics to understanding the nature of language ' , in Svartvik , Jan ( ed . ) , Directions in Corpus Linguistics , Berlin ...
Georgetown University Round Table , 1984 , pp . 95–104 . Chafe , Wallace ( 1992 ) ' The importance of corpus linguistics to understanding the nature of language ' , in Svartvik , Jan ( ed . ) , Directions in Corpus Linguistics , Berlin ...
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Contents
Contextualising the Duan Albanach | 11 |
Literary Lochlann | 25 |
Kingship imagery in Classical Gaelic panegyric for Scottish chiefs | 39 |
Copyright | |
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adjectives agus airson Alba animals appears bhith called century chaidh Chambers Chan eil complex composed concordance cuid cuideachd dance death dhèanamh Domhnaill eadar early English example faic fear formal prose gach Gaelic Gaels Gàidhlig genitive give given gu bheil gu robh Highlands Iain iarainn interesting Ireland Irish kings language leis lines Loch Lochlann material math mentioned modified nach nonconcordance noted noun nuair obair original perhaps phrase poem poetry position possible prepositional present printed reference registers relation robh says Scotland Scottish seems sinn sources speakers stad suggested Table term thaobh thug toirt tradition translation uair uile University variation wake writing
Bibliographic information
| Title | Cànan & Cultar Scottish Gaelic Studies Series |
| Editors | Wilson McLeod, James Earle Fraser, Anja Gunderloch |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Dunedin Academic Press, 2006 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 28 Apr 2008 |
| ISBN | 1903765609, 9781903765609 |
| Length | 294 pages |
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