Linguistics
Found in 35 Collections and/or Records:
Notebook titled 'Celtic Philology: I. Phonology', Late 19th or early 20th century
Notebook titled 'Celtic Philology: I. Sounds', Late 19th or early 20th century
Notebook titled 'Celtic Philology: II. Morphology', Late 19th or early 20th century
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.
Notebook titled 'Dialects', Late 19th century
Notebook. Untitled, 1886
In the front, an article published by Donald Mackinnon in the 'Celtic Magazine', December 1886, on the topic of 'loanwords in Gaelic' has been removed from its original source and has been glued into this notebook. Towards the back of the notebook, there are word lists that appear to be notes in preparation for a dictionary of loanwords in Gaelic. Many pages in the notebook, however, is empty.
Notebooks containing lecture notes, 1889-1892
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
Notes by W.J. Watson, late 19th-early 20th century
Notes written by William J. Watson including, notes on Bergin's edition of 'Stories from Keating', notes on the 'Death of Cu Roi' and notes on the relative particle a n- in Gaelic. Also an examination paper on Keating.
Notes on Gaelic Grammar and Vocabulary, late 19th-early 20th century
Notes on the Culdees and Their Rules, late 19th-early 20th century
Notebook containing notes on the Culdees and their Rules, by the Rev Charles Robertson. The contents are derived from Dr Reeves, On the Culdees' in Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy Vol. XXIV, Antiquities Part 1. The Culdee or Céli Dé was an ancient monastic order with settlements in Ireland and Scotland.
Philological Notes, late 19th-early 20th century
Notebook containing philological notes by Alexander MacBain. Contents include notes on gaelic pronouns, prepositional pronouns, interrogatives, the article, compensatory lengthening and metathesis.