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 first part, which he has titled 'Phonology'. Despite this title, much of the notebook's contents are descriptions, as they were understood at the time, of the classification of Celtic languages as a branch of Indo-European, how they are related to other languages, and a detailed account of the linguistic typology of Celtic...

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 in the collection, but Mackinnon has labelled it (in error?) as the first part, which he has titled 'Sounds'. The notebook's contents have a lot of information about the latest linguistic theory at this time, as well as attempts to describe defunct Celtic languages, such as Gaulish, as much as extant Celtic languages at...

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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.