Fife James, Poppe Erich (Eds.). Studies in Brythonic Word Order

John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1991. — 371 p. — (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 83).While Celtic languages are nominally VSO in basic word order, the languages of the Brythonic branch have exhibited striking synchronic and historical variations from the prototype. This volume comprises the very latest research in word order in Welsh, reton and Cornish from nine of the leading scholars in the field. The studies deal with historical, typological and descriptive issues from several approaches (including philological, functional and government and binding). The scope ranges over all the Brythonic languages, as well as the entire diachronic spectrum from the proto-language up to the most recent colloquial trends. The volume provides the expert with a collection of state-of-the-art research and the non-specialist with a comprehensive survey of the problems and debates in a language grouping fraught with intricate questions of word order and word order change.Introduction — Word order in Brythonic - James Fife and Erich Poppe
On the history of Brittonic syntax - John Koch
Further notes on constituent order in Welsh - Proinsias Mac Cana
Focus and the Welsh ‘Abnormal Sentence’: A cross-linguistic perspective - James Fife and Gareth King
Word order in Cyfranc Lludd a Llefelys: Notes on the pragmatics of constituent-ordering in MW narrative prose - Erich Poppe
Notes on word order in Beunans Meriasek - Ken J. George
Some constituent-order frequencies in classical Welsh prose - James Fife
Discourse pragmatics of NP-initial sentences in Breton - Lenora A. Timm
The directionality of the Head subcategorizational in Welsh - Maggie Tallerman
The function of the Cleft and Non-cleft constituent orders in modern Welsh - T. Arwyn Watkins