This series provides an outlet for academic monographs which offer a recent and original contribution to linguistics and which are within the descriptive tradition. While the monographs demonstrate their debt to contemporary linguistic thought, the series does not impose limitations in terms of methodology or genre, and does not support a particular linguistic school. Rather the series welcomes new and innovative research that contributes to furthering the understanding of the description of language.

The Author: Iwan Wmffre is a lecturer in Irish and Celtic at the University of Ulster, Coleraine. He has previously taught at the National University of Ireland, Galway, and at the Catholic University of Lublin. His publications include (1999), (1999), (2003), (2004).

Contents: An Analysis of Particular Spelling Conventions in Breton – Analysing the particular spelling conventions of Breton – A note on some orthographic and phonetic transcriptions – Spelling and pronunciation – Transcribing final consonants – The digraph – The digraph – The consonant [w] – New lenition, provection and leniprovection – The graphemes and – The digraph – The vowel before nasals – The trigraph vs. the digraph – The grapheme for [j] and palatal – The suffixes <-añ, -iñ> – Doubling consonants – Final <-mp> – Diacritics – Elision and word boundaries – Miscellaneous léonisms – Mimetic conventions for Breton orthography – Appendix 1: The Mordiern letters – Appendix 2: Miscellaneous documents – Appendix 3: Attendance records of the Carhaix Talks. Inhaltsverzeichnis