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Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Notes on Contributors ix
4. Acknowledgements xii
5. Abbreviations xiii
6. Preface xv
7. 1. A History of Gaelic to 1800 1
8. 2. Language in Society: 1800 to the Modern Day 22
9. 3. Gaelic Place-names 46
10. 4. Language in Gaelic Literature 63
11. 5. A’ Ghàidhlig an Canada: Scottish Gaelic in Canada 90
12. 6. Hebridean and Mainland Dialects 108
13. 7. The Gaelic Language-Group: Demography, Language-Usage, -Transmission, and -Shift 128
14. 8. Language Planning 146
15. 9. Sociolinguistic Ethnography of Gaelic Communities 172
16. 10. Gaelic Vocabulary 218
17. 11. Gaelic Orthography: The Drunk Man’s Broad Road 229
18. 12. Phonology in Modern Gaelic 262
19. 13. Gaelic Morphology 283
20. 14. David Adger 304
21. Index 352