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this Breton tost put in a fair claim of
kinship, through the Old Gaelic toiseach^
with the great Clan Mac-in-tosh !
As has-been said, this passage of a rela-
tion at first simply local into relations
higher, wider, and more complex, might be
to some extent illustrated, though mostly
in fossil forms, from well-nigh all the Indo-
European languages. But in the Gadhelic
tongues this principle of verbal perspective,
grouping our words into significant sen-
tences on the plan of relative local proximity,
is still a living, plastic, formative organism.
If the reader will turn to Windisch's
KtLTZgefasste Irische Granimatik, chap, vi.,
§§ 190-198, he will see that the same
principle is as firmly rooted in the sub-
stance of the Old Irish speech as in the
vernacular Gaelic of the modern Hisfh-
lander. And in the next chapter I shall
proceed to show how this principle directly
inspires and dominates the whole field of
Gadhelic phrase and idiom.
this Breton tost put in a fair claim of
kinship, through the Old Gaelic toiseach^
with the great Clan Mac-in-tosh !
As has-been said, this passage of a rela-
tion at first simply local into relations
higher, wider, and more complex, might be
to some extent illustrated, though mostly
in fossil forms, from well-nigh all the Indo-
European languages. But in the Gadhelic
tongues this principle of verbal perspective,
grouping our words into significant sen-
tences on the plan of relative local proximity,
is still a living, plastic, formative organism.
If the reader will turn to Windisch's
KtLTZgefasste Irische Granimatik, chap, vi.,
§§ 190-198, he will see that the same
principle is as firmly rooted in the sub-
stance of the Old Irish speech as in the
vernacular Gaelic of the modern Hisfh-
lander. And in the next chapter I shall
proceed to show how this principle directly
inspires and dominates the whole field of
Gadhelic phrase and idiom.
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Description | Celtic footprints in philology ethics and religion. |
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Shelfmark | Blair.1 |
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Description | A selection of books from a collection of more than 500 titles, mostly on religious and literary topics. Also includes some material dealing with other Celtic languages and societies. Collection created towards the end of the 19th century by Lady Evelyn Stewart Murray. |
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Description | Selected items from five 'Special and Named Printed Collections'. Includes books in Gaelic and other Celtic languages, works about the Gaels, their languages, literature, culture and history. |
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