WELSH DIALECT SURVEY

Edited by Alan Thomas

Associate Editors: Glyn E. Jones, Robert O. Jones and David A. Thorne

Computing Consultant: Cathair Ó Dochartaigh

pp xxi741 246x189mm February 2000 hardback
ISBN 0-7083-1617-4

'This pioneering volume is a triumph of collective scholarship, evidence of ‘enthusiasm and industry’ on the part of field-workers and editorial assistants, and of 'mutual generosity of spirit' on the part of the five distinguished academic editors, led by Professor Alan R. Thomas . . . a sound basis for identifying and comparing the ‘local colour’ of spoken Welsh'. (RR 2000/290)

The Welsh Dialect Survey is a major project of the Board of Celtic Studies of the University of Wales. The aim was to produce a survey of the principal features of segmental phonology in the dialects of Welsh, with some morphophonoly and morphology, and a few miscellaneous items of historical and other interest. This publication presents the data of five years of extensive fieldwork and contains 700 pages of data sets, and appendices giving details of informants, target words, place-names, survey localities, plus a feature index.

This book provides a survey of the principal features of segmental phonology in the dialects of Welsh, and includes some morphophonology and morphology.

Alan Thomas is Research Professor at the School of English and Linguistics, University of Wales, Bangor