TY - JOUR
T1 - The four types of Welsh YN
AU - Sims-Williams, Patrick
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014. Transactions of the Philological Society.
PY - 2015/11/1
Y1 - 2015/11/1
N2 - This paper discusses and categorises the various medieval and modern Welsh prepositions and particles yn and the initial mutations that follow them. It investigates possible manuscript variants such as Old Welsh int and it and Middle Welsh y, and examines variations in mutation. Historical explanations are suggested, including a new explanation of the absence of mutation in the productive yn + verbal noun construction, which is argued to have spread from the construction in which possessive pronouns between yn and the verbal nouns of intransitive stative verbs prevented yn from mutating the verbal nouns
AB - This paper discusses and categorises the various medieval and modern Welsh prepositions and particles yn and the initial mutations that follow them. It investigates possible manuscript variants such as Old Welsh int and it and Middle Welsh y, and examines variations in mutation. Historical explanations are suggested, including a new explanation of the absence of mutation in the productive yn + verbal noun construction, which is argued to have spread from the construction in which possessive pronouns between yn and the verbal nouns of intransitive stative verbs prevented yn from mutating the verbal nouns
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U2 - 10.1111/1467-968X.12052
DO - 10.1111/1467-968X.12052
M3 - Article
SN - 0079-1636
VL - 113
SP - 286
EP - 304
JO - Transactions of the Philological Society
JF - Transactions of the Philological Society
IS - 3
ER -