Scope and Contents A bundle of 11 notebooks, containing notes or scripts for lectures on a lecture series, which seems to have taken place between 1886 and 1887. The following notebooks survive:'Origins and position of the Celtic languages in the Indo-European group' (Item B.41a)'Early literature: Adamnan, etc.' (Item B.41b)'Letters and their sounds: Ogham' (Item B.41c)'Vowels and laws of sound change' (Item B.41d)'Grimm's Law' (Item...

Scope and Contents A bundle of 6 notebooks, containing notes or scripts for lectures on a lecture series, which seems to have taken place in the academic years 1895-96 and 1899-00. The following notebooks survive:'Grammar, phonology, and vowels' (Item B.42a)'Consonants and phonetic processes' (Item B.42b)'Phonetic processes' (Item B.42c)'Eclipsis, accents, inflection, and mumber' (Item B.42d)'The [definite] article in the Celtic [languages]' (Item...

Scope and Contents

Mackinnon appears to have written some notes, perhaps in preparation to publish a textbook that he had possibly expected to title 'Celtic Philology'. This is the second part, which he has titled 'Morphology'. Although part of a series on 'Celtic' linguistics, much of the notebook's contents appear to focus on the morphology of Scottish Gaelic, and includes nominal and verbal morphology.

Scope and Contents

These are notebooks containing lecture notes on the following subjects:

(a) Gaelic grammar

(b) Gaelic names: The form of names

(c) Gaelic names: Phonetic changes

(d) Grimm's Law

(e) Gaelic grammar: The declension of nouns

(f) Gaelic grammar: The declension of adjectives

(g) Pronouns

(h) Phonetics

(i) Eclipsis

(j) The noun: Gender, number and case

Scope and Contents

This bound notebook contains handwritten notes on the phonology of Irish, divided into sections on vowels and consonants, and then a section on morphology, including inflection and pronouns.