Grammatica, Gramadach and Gramadeg

Vernacular grammar and grammarians in medieval Ireland and Wales

Editors

Deborah Hayden | Maynooth University

Paul Russell | University of Cambridge

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Grammatica, Gramadach, and Gramadeg : Vernacular grammar and grammarians in medieval Ireland and Wales is concerned with the history of linguistic ideas and literary theory in the vernacular languages of medieval Ireland and Wales. While much good work, especially by Vivian Law, has been done on the Latin materials, this volume is the first to engage with the vernacular texts. It consists of ten essays that explore a range of interconnected topics relating to these themes. Yet while the contributors offer a close analysis of the development of linguistic thought in these literary traditions, they likewise seek to situate their discussions within the wider context of European grammatical learning during this period, considering both the widespread influence of texts from classical linguistic tradition and also the significance of sources from other contemporary learned disciplines for our understanding of the history of linguistics in the medieval world.

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 125] 2016. xvi, 226 pp.

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 14 March 2016

https://doi.org/10.1075/sihols.125

Table of Contents

Foreword & acknowledgements | pp. vii–7

Abbreviations | pp. ix–xi

List of plates | pp. xiii–13

Notes on contributors | pp. xv–xvi

Editors’ introduction | pp. 1–10

Allegory, the áes dána and the liberal arts in Medieval Irish literature

Elizabeth Boyle | pp. 11–34

Cryptography and the alphabet in the “Book of Ádhamh Ó Cianáin”

Deborah Hayden | pp. 35–64

Caide Máthair Bréithre “What is the Mother of a Word”: Thinking about words in Medieval Ireland

Erich Poppe | pp. 65–84

The expression of “sense, meaning, signification” in the Old Irish glosses, and particularly in the Milan and Saint Gall glosses

Pierre-Yves Lambert | pp. 85–100

The verbal paradigms in Auraicept na nÉces

Anders Ahlqvist | pp. 101–112

The glossing of the Early Irish law tracts

Liam Breatnach | pp. 113–132

Teaching between the lines: Grammar and Grammatica in the classroom in Early Medieval Wales

Paul Russell | pp. 133–148

The Welsh bardic grammars on Litterae

T.M. Charles-Edwards | pp. 149–160

Poetry by numbers: the poetic triads in Gramadegau Penceirddiaid

Paul Russell | pp. 161–180

Gramadeg Gwysanau: A fragment of 14th-Century Welsh bardic grammar

Ann Parry Owen | pp. 181–200

Index of manuscripts | pp. 219–220

Index of subjects | pp. 221–224

Index of terms by language | pp. 225–226

“The work contained in this volume comes from some of the leading scholars of the world of Celtic linguistic history, and their contributions do not disappoint. Each paper contributes in some way, marginally or substantially, to a better understanding of the history and contents of vernacular grammars and those who wrote them in the Medieval Celtic world.”

Jean-François R. Mondon, Minot State University, on Linguist List 28.307 (16/01/2017)

“[A] high level of scholarship leaving one amazed about the wealth of vistas and approaches that can be applied to this material in order to complete and refine our knowledge and understanding of medieval scholarship.”

Johan Corthals, Hamburg, in Beiträge zur Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaft 27 (2017)

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Cited by one other publication

Russell, Paul

2020. Distinctions, foundations and steps: the metaphors of the grades of comparison in medieval Latin, Irish and Welsh grammatical texts. Language & History 63:1 ► pp. 47 ff.

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