The Welsh Answering System

This book researches the various ways of saying 'yes' and 'no' in Welsh. In many languages, responding with 'yes' or 'no' is simple. This work shows that in Welsh a variety of forms can be used, depending upon syntax, morphology, lexis and semantics.

The work will appeal to scholars of various interests: the chapters which analyse the answering system provide interesting data for theorists and comparative linguists; the chapters which describe and attempt to explain variation will be of interest to sociolinguists; and, of course, the whole work will appeal to Celticists.

Preface
Acknowledgements
List of figures
List of tables
Answering systems	p. 1
Welsh echo responsives	p. 53
Welsh echo and nonecho responsives	p. 93
Discourse functions of Welsh responsives	p. 129
A formal analysis of Welsh responsives	p. 147
Children's use of Welsh responsives	p. 199
Language contact: the influence of English	p. 239
Internal causes of variation	p. 277
Conventions in the corpus examples	p. 303
Conventions in the interlinear glosses	p. 305
Additional examples of responsives	p. 307
Examples of formal answering systems	p. 315
Notes	p. 317
References	p. 337
Index	p. 351
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