Scope and Contents Marked 'Mackinnon A8' and noted thus in previous historical records. This notebook is near empty, with some initial notes on the linguistic differences between Goidelic and Brythonic languages. Breton is referred to in this ntoebook as 'Armoric', and Scots is referred to as 'Scotch'. These may have been the start of a text or lesson plan on the historical and comparative linguistics of Goidelic and Brythonic, but it does not have much to offer, other than maybe some insight into Mackinnon's...

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...

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This is a copy of the published printed Gaelic grammar 'Elements of Gaelic grammar', written by Alexander Stewart, published in Edinburgh in 1812. The book is interspersed with notes by Donald Mackinnon himself.

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...

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Notes and discussion, possibly for a lecture, on the phonological features of aspiration, eclipsis, and syllable stress of Gaelic place names. There is also a discussion on the [definite(?)] article.

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Notes and discussion, possibly for a lecture, on how the grammatical categories of gender, number, and nominal case interact with inflected ('declensional') forms of place names in Scottish Gaelic.

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A discussion on, or script for a lecture on, elements of Scottish Gaelic place names that are borrowed from English or Latin.

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A discussion on, or script for a lecture on, elements of Scottish Gaelic place names that are borrowed from Welsh, Pictish, native (?) Celtic, and pre-Celtic languages.

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This notebook contains a discussion of Gaelic names, including comparative typological discussion with English and the other Celtic languages.

The front cover has Roman numerals and numericals, scratched out and corrected. There are notes about the contents, suggesting the notebook is divided into two parts. With many pages having been removed from the notebook, it suggests that this notebook was part of a revision process and part of a larger work.

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Notes and discussion, possibly for a lecture, on the prefixes and suffixes found in Scottish Gaelic place names.