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'Remaining lexical and syntactic borrowings from Manx Gaelic in present day Manx English: a study of a declining phenomenon from a formal-linguistic viewpoint'

Date(s): 1999

Creator(s): Preuss, Martina

Scope & Content: MA Philosophy dissertation submitted to the University of Liverpool. The author considers the fieldwork of Barry in the 1950s and 1960s with contemporary fieldwork of over 70 informants with rural backgrounds. She examines the lexical and syntactic borrowings from Manx Gaelic in present day Manx English from a formal linguistic and socio linguistic viewpoint. Appendix contains an index of Manx Gaelic and dialect words and phrases.

Language: English

Extent: 1 volume

Item name: dissertation

Collection: Manuscript Archive

Level: ITEM

ID number: MS 13833/31

Record class: Private

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