782 INDEX
Schrijver, P. 22, 39
Scottish Gaelic 4, 230–300: adjectives 253,
261–2, 261, 265–6, 265, 277, 278, 281–2;
adverbs 274–5, 285–6, 294, 296; apocope
238; articles 253, 260–1, 260, 278–9, 280–1;
and arts 646; BE 16, 285; broadcast media
634; in community 597–601, 603–6, 607–8,
609, 611, 612, 622–3, 624, 628–31, 631,
645; compounds 248, 249, 277; conjunctions
294, 295; consonants 232, 234, 235–6,
238, 243–4, 244, 246–7; co-ordination
293; copula 286–8, 291; dative 256, 258,
262, 296; demonstratives 267–8, 268, 278;
dialects 230, 231, 232, 237, 241–2, 243, 245,
252, 268, 298, 639; distribution of Gaelic
speech community 589–97, 591–7; domains
of usage 597–613, 597–601, 603–6, 607–8,
609, 610, 611, 612–13; dual number 255,
262; and education 588–9, 597, 600–1, 612,
614, 617–21, 632–3, 635–6, 645–6; and
families 597, 597, 598, 600–1, 603–6, 607–8,
609, 609–10, 610, 612–13, 614, 621, 622,
625–7, 639, 640, 643–4; gender 255; genitive
256, 258, 262, 264, 278–80, 280, 296–7;
historical perspective 587–9; imperatives
291–2; interrogation 267, 275–6, 289–91,
294; language-group viability 635–40,
637, 638, 639, 640; language-loyalty and
attitudes 641–4, 642; language maintenance:
institutional support 632–5; loan words
299–300; and media 611
, 612, 623, 625, 645,
646; morphology 254–77; morphophonemics
250–4; mutation in 8, 250–4, 251, 260,
261, 262; negation 275, 292–3; nominative
262; non-mutation 251, 252–3; noun
phrases 277–82; nouns 253, 254–61,
280–1; in Nova Scotia 5; numerals 262–4,
282; orthography/pronunciation 231–6,
233–4, 235–6; palatalization 247, 259, 260;
phonology 231–50; prepositions 10, 1
1,
pronouns 264–8, 265, 268; and publishing
634; relative clauses 266, 292, 296–7; and
religion 588, 597, 597, 598, 600–1, 610, 612,
634–5; sandhi 247– 248; simple sentences
286–9; social history/contemporary status
587–646; stress 248–9; subjunctives 297–8;
subordination 292, 293–7; suffi xation 276–7;
syllabifi cation 245–6; syncope 238; syntax
277–300; and theatre 634; twenty-fi rst
century support infrastructure 644–6; verbal
adjectives 274; verbal nouns 273–4, 276,
282–3, 291, 292, 297; verbs 11–12, 253,
254, 268–74, 273, 277, 282–5; vocative 256;
vowels 232, 233–4, 236–8, 242–6, 242, 243,
244; Western Isles: usage in 622–31, 622–7,
628–31; word order 286; at work 597, 598,
599, 600–1
Seanad Éireann 565
Sébillot, P. 715
semi-vowels: Cornish 504–6, 505
Shohamy, E. 562–3
Simon, G. 763
Sims-Williams, P. 42, 56, 118, 121, 124
Skolveurig 430, 726–7
Smith, A. S. D. 754, 755
Smith, J. A. 588
Snell, J. A. N. 757
Solinas, P. 35
Southall, J. E. 652, 656–7, 662
spirantization: Breton 440–1; Traditional
Cornish 512, 513
Spolsky, B. 562–3, 570
Stifter, David 55–113
Stoyle, M. 490
Strabo 3
Strachan, J. 59
stress 7, 122–5: Breton 431–2, 463; Irish 176;
Late Brythonic 122–3; Manx 312; Middle
Cornish 506; Old Irish 64; Scottish Gaelic
248–9; Traditional Cornish 506–7; Welsh 7,
372–3, 376, 415–19
Strowski, S. 731
Stüber, K. 73
subjunctive 86: Irish 198–200, 199; Manx 352;
Old Irish 85, 92, 98, 99; Scottish Gaelic
297–8; Traditional Cornish 530–1; Welsh
386
subordination: Breton 477; Manx 351; Old
Irish 106; Old/Middle Welsh 151–4; Scottish
Gaelic 292, 293–7; Traditional Cornish
529–30
suffi xation: Breton 17, 446–7, 448, 452–3;
Manx 330–1; Old Irish 34, 76, 78, 79–80,
80, 109, 110; Old/Middle Welsh 134–5, 137,
141–2; Scottish Gaelic 276–7; Welsh 17, 396
Surrexit Memorandum 118
svarabhakti: Traditional Cornish 499, 500
syncope: Old Irish 61, 66–7, 79; Scottish Gaelic
238
syntax 13–20: BE 14–16; bifurcated
demonstrative structure 16–17; Cisalpine
Celtic 36; Hispano-Celtic (Celtiberian) 33;
Irish 213–16; Manx 342–53; Middle Welsh
119; numerals 17–18, 19; Old Irish 104–9;
Old/Middle Welsh 144–56; Scottish Gaelic
277–300; Traditional Cornish 526–31; see
also word order
Szemerényi, O. 37–8