Robert Elsie

Dialect relationships in Goidelic
A study in Celtic dialectology

ISBN 3-87118-788-7
Helmut Buske Verlag, Hamburg 1986
262 pp.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Introduction to the language group
  The Celtic languages
  Goidelic Celtic
  Irish, Scottish and Manx Gaelic. Languages or dialects?
   
• Purpose and methodology
  Measuring linguistic distance between variants
  Methods
  Informants and dialect points
  The control sampling
  Restrictions in application
   
• Basic vocabulary corpus (control sampling)
  Introduction
  Basic vocabulary corpus (control sampling)
  Control sampling for Manx
  Control sampling for Old Irish
   
• Statistical results
  Cognate grouping chart
  Lexical distance chart
  Order of proximity chart
  Degree of proximity chart
   
• Areal evaluation of results
  Munster Irish
  Connemara Irish
  Donegal Irish
  Manx
  Southern Scottish Gaelic
  Scottish Gaelic of Skye
  Scottish Gaelic of Uist
  Scottish Gaelic of Harris and Lewis
  Scottish Gaelic of the Northern Mainland
   
• Evolution and constellation of Goidelic dialects
  Contrast with Old Irish
  Wave theory of linguistic evolution
  Relationships within Ireland
  Relationships within Scotland
  Munster-Northern Mainland affinity
  Irish vs. Scottish Gaelic vs. Manx
   
• Summary