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A Concise Tabulation of the Cornovian Dialect A Concise Tabulation of the Cornovian Dialect AUC MMCCCCVI. a A Concise Tabulation of the Cornovian Grammar. Universitas Sancti Perranis, apud Truronem, Damnoniae. ano cccxliiii scolae. £ 1 /10/6 Cambriae. a Preface. This revised fourth edition of Prf. Livia Ferrars’s Concise Tabulation of the Cornovian Grammar marks a significant alteration in format and size. The popular first edition of 1890 was little more than an outline of the morphology, sparsely augmented with notes, and was intended as a supplement to Prf. A. G. Davidson’s copious An Historical and Comparative Grammar of the British Diallects, published at Oxford University, 1888. The second edition of 1948 and the enlarged third edition of 1952 were the first steps at creating an independant grammar book of any sort for any Dumnonian dialect since 1790, when William Pryce published his Archaeologia Cornu-Britannica. The second and third editions worked well as a small handbook, but yet was found wanting in many sections. Thus, in early 1997 (std.), the Fellows of the Classical Studies Division of the Royal College at Esca decided that a revised edition of the Concise Tabulation must be issued, and that it would actually border upon an entirely new work. Having made this decision, the Classics and Romance Languages Departments of St. Perran’s University at Trurow, under the guiding hands of Sarra la Cawurn (Classics and British Languages) and Gawens Quidgerei (Romance Languages) were chosen to complete the revision work, as several of the Province’s top scholars are in residence at the University. The format of this fourth edition of the book as a whole has been improved, following the divisions set forth in other standard reference grammars. The main sections of the Morphology, those treating of the Nouns and Verbs have been entirely rewritten and expanded, taking into account modern scholarship, bringing these sections into line with the standards as set forth by the Classical Studies Division of the Royal College at Esca. Several appendices have been newly added; and older ones rewritten. The more important of the appendices are those concerning the sound and form changes that occur between Latin and Cornovian. The Introduction and section on Mutations were new to the third edition; yet even so, some improvements have been made. The Introduction includes revised information on the relationships between all the main Dumnonian dialects, along with several new examples. There is also a short section on the political division of the Province, with highlights on where the dialect boundaries are. A dialect map is also provided here. The Grammar has always been descriptive rather than comparative or historical; but even so, some attempt has been made at giving comparative and historical information where deemed necessary in order to better understand the material. No attempt has been made to replace well established terms or categories by newer ones, as the usual terms have proven adequate to the task for many years. Esca, May 1, 1999. Table of Contents Introduction. -4- Some Notes on the Divisions within the Province and the Dialects. -5- Some notes on Sound Mutations.. -6- MORPHOLOGY.. -8- Sounds and Letters. -8- Articles. -9- Nouns. -9- Class I Nouns. -10- Class II nouns.. -12- Class III nouns. -13- Adjectives.. -14- Adjective Comparison. -14- Numerals.. -16- Cardinal numerals. -16- Ordinal numerals .. -17- Distributive numerals.. -17- Numeral Adverbs.. -18- Other Numerals. -18- Pronouns. -19- personal pronouns. -19- Demonstrative pronouns. -19- Reflexive Pronouns. -20- Possessive Pronouns and Adjectives. -20- Interrogative and Relative Pronouns. -21- Contraxions of Prepositions or Pronouns and Articles. -21- Verbs.. -22- Conjugation. -22- List of tenses. -22- The Passive. -24- Morphological suffixes. -25- Ablaut changes.. -25- Second Conjugation subtypes. -26- Verb Tables, Regular verbs with esser, aver and ystar.. -27- Particles.. -33- Preverbs. -33- Conjugated Prepositions and Preverbs. -33- Reduplicative Particles. -33- Prepositions. -34- Adverbs of Place. -35- Adverbs of Direction. -36- Adverbs of Time. -36- Negative Particles. -36- Conjunctions. -36- SYNTAX. -38- Nouns. -38- Adjectives. -41- Pronouns. -42- Verbs.. -43- Sentence Formation. -46- APPENDICES. -50- Appendix I, Conjugation of Irregular Verbs.. -50- First Conjugation. -51- Second Conjugation.. -54- Third Conjugation. ..
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