Grammatical Number in Welsh: Diachrony and Typology

Nurmio, Silva

doi:10.1111/1467-968x.12157

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“…Post Several recent quantitative analyses (Meelen & Nurmio 2020;Nurmio 2019;Parina & Poppe, in preparation), however, have shown that such a simple separation of native prose and translations is not possible. Even though there is considerable variance between the studied texts, there is no clear distinction between native prose and translations (Nurmio 2019: 180, 188-189;Meelen & Nurmio 2020: 22).…”

Section: Attributive Adjectives In Ysgmentioning

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“…Among other things, adjectival number agreement with a governing plural noun was identified as a marker for-or fault of, as it was seen-a supposed translation style (Luft 2016: 170-172). Recent studies (Meelen & Nurmio 2020;Nurmio 2019;Parina & Poppe, in preparation) have put those assumptions to the test. In this paper another translation, Ystoryaeu Seint Greal, the 'Stories of the Holy Grail', is examined with a special focus on adjectival agreement in plural noun phrases.…”

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When is a Knight a Knight?

Zimmermann

2022

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The Middle Welsh Ystoryaeu Seint Greal, the ‘Stories of the Holy Grail’, are a late fourteenth-century translation of two thirteenth-century Old French Arthurian texts—La Queste del Saint Graal and Le Haut Livre du Graal (Perlesvaus). Statistical analysis shows evidence of a sophisticated and so far unique system for the use of the adjective urdaỼl (Mod. Welsh urddol) ‘ordained’ in qualifying the status of otherwise unknown knights.

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When is a Knight a Knight?

Zimmermann

2022

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TRAPPED BETWEEN CASE AND NUMBER. A TYPOLOGY OF ADNUMERATIVE FORMS^†

Roncero

2024

Studia Linguistica

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In this paper, I study the nature of adnumerative or numerative forms; i.e. morphologically dedicated inflectional forms that can only be used with numerals or quantifiers (e.g. Russian dva časá ‘two o'clock’ vs. [gen sg] čása). Adnumeratives are cross‐linguistically very rare; yet they raise some interesting theoretical discussions. This work is based on the framework of Canonical Typology, which assumes the existence of a handful of discrete and cross‐linguistically recurrent morphosyntactic features. Nevertheless, adnumerative forms present a challenge to that distribution, because, as I argue, adnumeratives lie between case and number values. This might well represent a theoretically undesirable scenario, and thus, be diachronically unstable. However, the data I have gathered prove that there are adnumerative forms that have survived in this penumbra for centuries and one can also adduce more evidence of diachronically stable cross‐linguistic phenomena between two feature values (e.g. the anterior). Therefore, I propose that this theoretical space may not be as dark previously depicted and I ask questions for further exploration.

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Val i May Ysgrifenedig: Derivatives with Suffix -edig in Three Early Modern Welsh Texts

Parina¹,

Geinitz²

2020

Studia Celto-Slavica

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The association of Latin and English past participles with Welsh derivatives with the suffix -edig has a long tradition. In the analysis of the texts of Oxford, Jesus College MS. 119 (The Book of the Anchorite of Llanddewi Brefi (Llyfr yr Ancr), dated 1346), Parina and Poppe found that for the translated texts we can compare with an assumed Latin source about two thirds of edig-derivatives correspond to Latin past passive participles (see Parina & Poppe (forthcoming)). As our research moved on towards the 16th century, we were interested in trends in the usage of edig-derivatives in this later period in the history of the Welsh language. The aim of this contribution is to analyse a sample of three translated texts from the 16th century: Gesta Romanorum, Treigl y Marchog Crwydrad and Perl mewn Adfyd. All of them are translated from English, and our focus is similar to that in the study of the texts in Llyfr yr Ancr: for each text, we aim to identify the main types of grammatical equivalents in the source language. Our main question is the degree of correspondence with English past participles, but we will also look at the derivational patterns and the productivity of the suffix. In this way, we hope to detect diachronic trends in the development of the edig-suffix.

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Grammatical Number in Welsh: Diachrony and Typology

Cited by 3 publications

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When is a Knight a Knight?

When is a Knight a Knight?

TRAPPED BETWEEN CASE AND NUMBER. A TYPOLOGY OF ADNUMERATIVE FORMS^†

Val i May Ysgrifenedig: Derivatives with Suffix -edig in Three Early Modern Welsh Texts

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Grammatical Number in Welsh: Diachrony and Typology

Cited by 3 publications

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When is a Knight a Knight?

When is a Knight a Knight?

TRAPPED BETWEEN CASE AND NUMBER. A TYPOLOGY OF ADNUMERATIVE FORMS†

Val i May Ysgrifenedig: Derivatives with Suffix -edig in Three Early Modern Welsh Texts

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TRAPPED BETWEEN CASE AND NUMBER. A TYPOLOGY OF ADNUMERATIVE FORMS^†