Modern Welsh: A Comprehensive Grammar
by Gareth King
Routledge Comprehensive Grammars, Routledge Guide: Grammar
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Modern Welsh: A Comprehensive Grammar is the ideal reference source for all speakers and learners of Welsh. Focusing on contemporary spoken Welsh, it presents the complexities of the language in a concise and readable form. Common grammatical patterns and parts of speech are discussed in detail and without jargon and extensive cross references make the book comprehensive and easy to use. Now in its third edition, the Grammar has been thoroughly revised and updated throughout. Changes include show more an increased number of illustrative examples, additional appendices for easy reference, inclusion of IPA phonetic symbols, and expanded sections on further reading. Features include: Full use of authentic examples Particular attention to areas of confusion and difficulty Extensive index and cross referencing Initial consonant mutations marked throughout Separate sections on communicative functions Notes on variation between dialects and on formal written language Modern Welsh: A Comprehensive Grammar is the most thorough, detailed and user-friendly Welsh grammar available in English today. It is suitable for use in schools, colleges, universities and adult classes at all levels and will, as its predecessors, prove an invaluable aid for Welsh language learning and teaching. show lessTags
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Of all the Welsh grammar books I've used, this is my firm favourite. Most either concentrate on the formal written language of literature or an artificial "standard" version that nobody actually speaks. This book is a descriptive grammar of modern spoken Welsh, which embraces dialect variations rather than trying to impose a standard. It is clearly laid out and provides many examples of usage from North and South Wales.
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Gareth King is an experienced teacher of Welsh and the author of Modern Welsh: A Comprehensive Grammar (1993, 2003, 2016), Basic Welsh: A Grammar and Workbook (1995, 2014), The Routledge Intermediate Welsh Reader (2013), Colloquial Welsh: The Complete Course for Beginners (2009) and Intermediate Welsh: A Grammar and Workbook (1996). All are show more published Routledge. show less
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- Modern Welsh: A Comprehensive Grammar
- Original publication date
- 1993
Classifications
- Genres
- Reference, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 491.6 — Language Other languages East Indo-European and Celtic languages Celtic languages
- LCC
- PB2123 .K56 — Language and Literature Modern languages. Celtic languages and literature Modern languages. Celtic languages Celtic languages and literature Brittanic group Welsh. Cymric
- BISAC
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- 91
- Popularity
- 353,995
- Reviews
- 1
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- (4.44)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 8
